After nearly a 5 year absence from Canadian concert stages, Grammy award winning Jazz Vocalist / Pianist Diana Krall returns with her “Quiet Nights” tour in celebration and in support of her new Verve CD “Quiet Nights” to be released in late March.

To fully showcase the sumptuous arrangements of Claus Ogerman, on both Quiet Nights and Krall’s earlier works, she will be accompanied in concert by her usual sidemen Anthony Wilson (guitars), Jeff Hamilton (drums), John Clayton (bass) plus a 45 piece orchestra under the direction of conductor Alan Broadbent.

Influenced greatly by her many tour performances in Brazil, Ms. Krall refers to her new work as “not coy like peel me a grape, but womanly – like you’re lying in bed next to your lover and whispering this in their ear.”  From Krall’s refreshing version of “Where or When” to an utterly soul-stirring rendition of “You’re My Thrill” the ten songs on Quiet Nights are disarming in their intimacy, as they push the listener unabashedly into the realm of sweet surrender.  As Krall puts it, “It’s a sensual, downright erotic record, and it’s intended to be that way”