"An Evening With..."
Dianne Reeves
Saturday, March 31 • 8pm
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“The only jazz singer with a voice big enough to rival Sarah Vaughan’s.”—The New York Times
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| Dianne Reeves as seen in Good Night and Good Luck, directed by George Clooney. |
Program Notes
"The powerful but mellow alto of Ms. Reeves wafts through the film, as ubiquitous and atmospheric as the smoke from Murrow's cigarettes." The New York Times’ assessment of Dianne Reeves' effect on 2005's Academy Award-nominated film Good Night, and Good Luck aptly describes the sinuous allure of her vocals. A four-time Grammy winner for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance"—most recently for the Good Night soundtrack—Reeves uses her voice with the facility of the greatest jazz instrumentalists. A truly inspired interpreter, she breathes new life into the classic American songbook.
Born in Detroit, Reeves spent her youth in Denver, Colorado. Clark Terry discovered her singing with her high school jazz band, and she performed with the famed trumpeter while attending the University of Colorado. Reeves moved to Los Angeles in the late ’70s, where she worked with Eduardo del Barrio, Sergio Mendes, Billy Childs, and Harry Belafonte. The first vocalist to be signed to Blue Note records, Reeves explored a wide variety of genres on her solo albums, with a heavy emphasis on Afro-Latin and Brazilian music, and has worked with a who's who of stellar musicians including Wynton Marsalis, Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and her cousin George Duke. She won her first three Grammys for successive albums, In The Moment: Live in Concert (2000), Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (2001), and Little Moonlight (2003). She also served as the first Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and performed at the closing ceremonies of the Salt Lake City Olympics.
In recent years she has focused more on her jazz chops, and Dianne continues that trend with a pair of exciting projects in ’07. She was featured in a documentary about famed jazz composer and Ellington associate Billy Strayhorn in February. The soundtrack, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, features Reeves' interpretation of six classic Strayhorn tunes. And fans will be happy to hear she will release an album of all-new material this fall.
Personnel:
- Dianne Reeves, vocal
- Peter Martin, piano/musical director
- Reuben Rogers, bass
- Greg Hutchinson, drums
Drs. James and Sarah Manyika
