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[JAZZ] Canadian chanteuse Diana Krall postponed her fall tour and the release of her latest, Wallflower, due to a bout with pneumonia. The David Foster-produced disc, which finally arrived last month, is an uneven collection of singer-songwriter covers and pop radio classics… and Foster’s production is to blame. Fans have clamored for a release like this for years, based largely on Krall’s stunning versions of tunes by Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and her husband, Elvis Costello, as served up in the past. And despite Wallace, Wallflower still manages to deliver some compelling moments, attesting to Krall’s interpretative strengths. Whatever your take on it, her concert performances usually feature impressive contemporary jazz talent and are rarely top-heavy with material from any particular project. Early reports from this tour support a continuance of that pattern: expect cherry-picked selections from Bix Beiderbeck, Fats Waller and Nat King Cole peppered between a few tunes from Wallflower, 2012’s vaudevillian-themed Glad Rag Doll, and old favorites, all delivered by a crack six-piece ensemble featuring Krall on keys. Krall comes ot the UB Center For The Arts on Tuesday, March 10.