CNN英語專訪爵士天后戴安娜.克瑞兒：巴西音樂探索之旅

Diana Krall’s Brazilian Odyssey新生代爵士天后戴安娜·克瑞兒

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Now, singer Diana Krall is far from an overnight sensation. She's been a platinum-selling artist for years, and she's found success all over the world, but as Shannon Cook reports, there's one place in particular1 where the musician recently found Inspiration.

戴安娜·克瑞兒絕不是那種一使成名的歌手，地多年來出過許多張白金唱片(注1)，在世界鋅地都大受歡迎。不過，復依·庫克帶來的報道指…，這位音樂家近來從一個地方獲得了許多靈感。

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

I was in Brazil the year before last doing some concerts, and I've always loved the music, but when you go there, and you go to the botanical2 gardens in Rio and different... other places in Brazil, you really see where this music originated3 and the ties to American popular song, like Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto. So I felt like it was the right time to do this album. One of the best parts of making a record is the dinner after where you all go to a restaurant, you decompress4. have some great wine and just tell stories and listen to Claus and Tommy and Al Schmidt and all these people telling amazing stories about [those] that times.

我前年在巴西舉辦了幾場演唱會，我一向都喜歡巴西的音樂，可是你一旦到那里去，到里約熱內(nèi)盧的植物園及巴西的其他地方，就會真正看到這種音樂究竟源自何處，還有這種音樂和美國流行歌曲的關聯(lián)，例如斯坦·蓋茨與喬安·吉巴托所以，我當時就覺得正是制作這張專輯合適的時候。在制作唱片的過程中，最棒的部分就是工作結束后，大家一起到餐廳吃晚餐，你可以放松下來，喝點美酒，說說故事，聽著克勞斯、湯米、艾爾·施密特及其他那些人講述那些年代的各種傳奇故事。

SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN特派員夏儂·庫克

And there's only one dinner? Shouldn't there be a series of dinners?

只有一次聚餐?不是應該有一連串的聚餐嗎?

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

Uh, no, there's a lot of dinners.

嗯，沒錯，有很多次的聚餐。

SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN特派員夏儂·庫克

(laughing) I bet!

(笑)我就說呀!

You have been producing Barbara Streisand's new album. What's that been like?

你最近制作了芭芭拉·史翠珊的新專輯，感覺怎么樣?

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

Incredible5, incredible. I mean, I just am so thrilled6 with her performance on this album. It's been great WOF lg artist to artist, and we had a lot of fun. We play J cards. When there's little moments in the studio where there's something technical that has to be fixed, then we'll deal7 the cards, and we'll play gin rummy, which I'm lousy8 at. Thank goodness.

難以置信，難以置信。我是說，她在這張專輯上的表現(xiàn)讓我興奮不已。同是音樂人在一起合作實在很棒，而且我們相處得很開心。我們會一起玩牌。有時候，錄音室如果出了點技術問題，要等人修好，我們就會玩牌，玩金羅美(注2)，可是我打得很差勁，感謝老天爺。

SHANNON COOK. CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN特派員夏儂·庫克

Oh, OK. So she normally wins?

哦，所以通常都是她贏?

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

Yeah, no, I would let her win. (laughing)

是啊，我都會讓她贏。(笑)

SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN特派員夏儂·庫克

And this is the first album you've produced for another artist.

這是你第一次幫其他藝人制作專輯。

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

For another artist, yes.

幫其他藝人，沒錯。

SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN特派員夏儂·庫克

Way to choose somebody really small to start of with!

你第一次挑選的對象還真“小牌”啊!

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

I didn't choose. She chose me! I had a few phone calls and I was... you know, it was a little daunting9, and, but it was a great experience and really, really intense10, as you would expect it to be, and challenging 11, but in a... you know, in a way that I think we ended up with a really beautiful record that she's really happy with. And that's the most important thing, that she loves the record.

不是我挑上她，是她挑中我的!我接了幾個電話，然后就……是有點嚇人，但也是很棒的經(jīng)驗，而且絕無冷場，就像預期的一樣，充滿挑戰(zhàn)性，不過，我認為我們最后完成的專輯非常優(yōu)美，她也很滿意，她喜歡這張專輯，這才是最重要的。

SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN特派員夏儂·庫克

You and your husband, Elvis Costello, two very creative people, and two very intense people living under the one roof, it must get zany12 at times under this one roof.

你和你先生艾維斯·卡斯提洛都是非常有創(chuàng)意的人。兩個這么有活力的人住在同一個屋檐下，家里一定常常有很瘋狂的時刻吧。

DIANA KRALL. MUSICIAN

爵樂家戴安娜·克瑞兒

Yeah, it's pretty great. It's really, really fun, and we have this amazing home in Vancouver now. And I finally have a home, because I've always lived out of a suitcase on the road, and just, you know, sort of a tiny little flat13 that I can come drop things off. But now we have this home with kids running around, and I love to cook, so we're always cooking, and we always have people over. It's zany in the most wonderful way, and you know, it's great. I mean, you have two little boys leaping off the furniture who think they're Buzz Lightyear-"infinity and beyond"-while we're practicing and playing. It's just a happy house, and they're really funny and really fun. And it's just, my life is just tremendous14 right now. It couldn't be better.

是啊，確實很棒。我們的生活充滿了樂趣，而且我們現(xiàn)在在溫哥華有了一個很漂亮的家。我總算有了個家。我過去總是帶著一個皮箱到處奔波，只有一間小公寓讓我放東西。但現(xiàn)在我們有了這個家，有小孩跑來跑去我很愛做飯，所以我們隨時都在做飯，隨時都有客人過來。我們的乍活瘋狂得很美妙，很棒。我們練琴彈奏的時候，兩個小男孩就在家具上跳上跳下，以為自己是巴斯光年，喊著“宇宙無限，浩瀚無垠!”我們家充滿歡樂，孩子真的很好玩也很有趣。這實存……我現(xiàn)任的生活實在太棒了，不可能再比這樣更好了

英語單詞注釋

1.in particular 特別地，尤其

2.botanical adj. 植物的，植物學的

3.originate v. 發(fā)源，來自

4.decompress v. 減壓

5.incredible adj. 驚人的，美妙的

6.thrilled adj. 非常激動，興奮的

7.deal v. 發(fā)(紙牌)，經(jīng)營

8.lousy adj. (口)不好的，討厭的

9.daunting adj. 令人卻步的

10.intense adj. 強烈的，極度的

11.challenging adj. 具有挑戰(zhàn)性的

12.zany adj. 稀奇古怪的

13.flat n. (英)公寓

14.tremendous adj. 極好的，很棒的