In this 1997 broadcast of The Dini Petty Show, Diana Krall performs the 1932 standard “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me” live in the Toronto studio, with Russell Malone on guitar. It is months before she became a household name, and the arrangement is the one she was touring behind Love Scenes: piano, voice, and a guitarist close enough to argue with.
The moment it ends, she admits she made a mistake — two notes struck at once — and waves it away. It’s jazz. She laughs about it again at the top of the full sit-down, which is the most useful thing on the tape for anyone who has only met her as an established star: the reflex to name her own error before anyone else can.
What the performance captures is the trio sound at the point it was still being proven rather than expected. The song is a piece of Warren and Dubin’s songbook that has been recorded hundreds of times; the reason to watch this version is the specific unhurried phrasing that, two years later, would carry a jazz record to an Album of the Year nomination. Malone’s guitar does the work a full rhythm section would normally cover, which leaves a great deal of space around the vocal — and the whole appeal of this period of Krall’s playing is what she chooses not to fill.
Unseen since it was originally aired, this master tape has been meticulously optimized and preserved via the official archive of The Dini Petty Show, safeguarding an early televised performance from one of the defining voices in vocal jazz.
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