Thursday, October 16, 2025

Diana Krall - BBC In Concert, Mermaid Theatre, London, Britain, 4-19-2004

By looking at what music I post and don't post, you may have noticed I'm not a big jazz fan. However, I do like some vocal jazz. And lately, I've been posting a lot of "various artists" tribute concerts, and one name I keep seeing on those is Diana Krall. (Six such concert appearances in the albums I've posted so far, and more to come.) I don't know much about her, but I do know she's one of the best selling jazz artists in recent decades, selling 15 million albums so far. I also know she's the wife of Elvis Costello. So, when I came across a BBC concert she did in 2004, I was interested enough to listen to it, and liked it enough to post it. Here it is.

I only found this as a single mp3 file. I had to track down the song list elsewhere. Then I broke it into individual mp3s. So I don't think this has been shared much at all, until now.

This concert took place less than a year after her marriage to Elvis Costello (which continues until this day, as I write this in 2025). Up until that point, Krall had only performed cover versions. But for her album "The Girl in the Other Room," released a couple of weeks prior to this concert, she cowrote about half of the songs with Costello. Only one of those made it into this concert, "Narrow Daylight," though some other songs from that album that she didn't have a hand in writing did as well, including "Almost Blue" by Costello.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

01 I Love Being Here with You (Diana Krall)
02 Do It Again (Diana Krall)
03 Love Letters (Diana Krall)
04 talk (Diana Krall)
05 Let's Fall in Love (Diana Krall)
06 talk (Diana Krall)
07 I've Got You Under My Skin (Diana Krall)
08 talk (Diana Krall)
09 Devil May Care (Diana Krall)
10 talk (Diana Krall)
11 Stop This World (Diana Krall)
12 talk (Diana Krall)
13 Almost Blue (Diana Krall)
14 talk (Diana Krall)
15 Temptation (Diana Krall)
16 Narrow Daylight (Diana Krall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/noMiuK4m

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/HgzWmWnBhgVmVLN/file

The cover photo is from a concert she did in London in 2004. But it's from the Royal Albert Hall in November.

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6 comments:

  1. nytvfOctober 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM

    I love all your tribute shows especially. Thank you! Curious what the remaining Musicares ones are. I think you said Paul Simon, but that's about it as you graciously put the rest up that you had mentioned.

    BTW, in case you're interested, there's the Doobie Brothers 50th (Reunion) at Radio City from PBS on Archive.org...audio only on that site via 2 long tracks. There's also video via You Tube...for Frankie Valli Live at Mohegan Sun 2022. It was a PBS special called Frankie Valli: A Life on Stage.

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    1. PaulOctober 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM

      Funny you should ask, because I just posted one of the last ones, the Dolly Parton one. That just leaves the Paul Simon one, which is coming very soon, knock on wood.

      Thanks for the recommendations, but I'd prefer to post music from these folks when they're younger.

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  2. Jon WhiteOctober 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM

    She has plenty of non cover work leading up to that concert

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  3. Blair FrodeliusOctober 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM

    Thanks for this! One of my favourites!

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  4. PeterHOctober 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM

    Thanks for this.
    I recorded this one off the BBC digital feed back in 2004. My album has four more songs on the end:
    * There may be trouble ahead
    * Cry me a river
    * Love me like a man
    * S'marvellous
    Sadly mine is only 128 kbps, I will update the beginning of mine from yours. Thanks again!

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    1. PaulOctober 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM

      Thanks for that info. Could you send those extra songs to me? I don't like 128 kbps, but perhaps I could add them as bonus tracks. My email is: thompson22 @ runbox . com (remove the spaces)

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