{"id":645,"date":"2004-04-16T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/04\/from_ash_to_dia\/"},"modified":"2004-04-16T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T12:13:46","slug":"from_ash_to_dia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/from_ash_to_dia\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ash to Diana Krall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ash came in to do a Virgin Superstars session on Wednesday, which I sat in on. These things take the form of an interview in front of a live audience, interspersed with songs, a couple of old ones (Girl From Mars and Burn Baby Burn) and a couple of new ones. All acoustic and all very intimate &#8211; they seem like a very relaxed bunch of guys. I look forward to the new album.<br \/>\nThen the next day, it was the one I was looking forward to. I&#8217;m on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/orchestras\/co\/\">BBC Concert Orchestra<\/a> mailing list and they were recording a live concert with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianakrall.com\">Diana Krall<\/a> for broadcast in May. This was one hot ticket, and I was quite excited getting along to the Mermaid Theatre down in Blackfriars with a hall full of Radio 2 listeners. How did I get my tickets? Email competition.<br \/>\nKrall was on Parkinson at the weekend and I bought her new album on Monday (9.77 at Safeway). This was a concert full of jazz standards, accompanied by a set of gifted musicians. Krall herself plays the piano, nearly as much as she sings, and she&#8217;s surrounded with a Double Bass, Drums and Guitar. Together they were accompanied on many tracks by the massed ranks of the BBC CO.<br \/>\nI loved every minute of it. She&#8217;s the sort of singer who leaves you with a spring in your step as you depart.<br \/>\nListen out on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/events\/dianakrall\/\">Radio 2<\/a> for the concert at 7.30 on 7 May!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash came in to do a Virgin Superstars session on Wednesday, which I sat in on. These things take the form of an interview in front of a live audience, interspersed with songs, a couple of old ones (Girl From Mars and Burn Baby Burn) and a couple of new ones. All acoustic and all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}