Diana Krall News

A day after being feted as the MusiCares Person of the Year, Paul McCartney received a boisterous standing ovation - for practising.

Paul McCartney, "Kisses on the Bottom" : Thanks for the valentine, Sir Paul! Unlike so many rock stars who are ransacking their parents' record collections, Paul McCartney doesn't seem to be making any big statements here about what may or may not be a "classic" or "standard" song.

There's no shortage of stars, real and imagined, visible along Hollywood's Walk of Fame, but even by Tinseltown standards, Paul McCartney ramped up the quotient Thursday in getting his own belated star.

Remember to visit iTunes at 10 p.m. ET on Thursday to watch Paul McCartney performing selections from his new standards album, Kisses on the Bottom .

When it comes to booking talent, the producers behind the Grammy Awards can't resist packing the roster full of as much A-list eye candy as possible.

An aging rocker paging through the Great American Songbook: It's a cash grab as old as its intended audience.

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Mark Miller is back with another book. The prolific Miller has written seven books since 1982, including the indispensable Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History Of Jazz In Canada and Some Hustling This!: Taking Jazz To The World, 1914-1929 , which was published last year.

Among this week's releases, Paul McCartney sings standards and Roberta Flack sings songs from McCartney's old band, the Beatles.

Reviews are mixed of the former Beatle's first standards album, which is due out on Feb.

Official details have been revealed about the live Paul McCartney performance that will stream online via iTunes this Thursday in celebration of the release of his new standards album, Kisses on the Bottom .

Paul McCartney will present tomorrow in the UK his latest album, called "Kisses on the Bottom", which includes fourteen songs of jazz composed during the '20s and '40s, as a tribute to that style.

Gardenia Swing will feature a wide variety of jazz and swing numbers - tunes made popular by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and more recently Diana Krall, Stacey Kent and Clare Teal - but be prepared, too, for a few musical surprises.

New York's famed Oak Room, a supper club that has long been known for its role in the city's jazz and cabaret circuit, will be closing its doors after 104 years.

NEW YORK - New York City's famous Algonquin Hotel has permanently shuttered the Oak Room, its fabled supper club that helped launch careers of many top jazz and cabaret stars.

Tickets have sold out for the Diana Krall concert at this year's Rochester International Jazz Festival.

Sir Paul Mccartney was so wracked with nerves while recording tracks with jazz star Diana Krall, he was convinced he'd "disgraced" himself and was "rubbish". The Beatles legend has covered several classic standards for his new album, Kisses on the Bottom, and he recruited Krall and her backing band to provide the music.

The Academy of Music celebrated 155 years with its annual concert and ball on Saturday night.

For as long as anyone can remember, the last Saturday night in January has played out in the same slightly paradoxical way for Philadelphia's Grand Old Lady of Locust Street.

Vincent Stephens has written about music for Popular Music and Popular Music & Society, and completed a Ph.D in American Studies in May 2005 from the University of Maryland, College Park.