01. Loads of Love
02. I Concentrate On You
03. Reflections				play
04. Skylark
05. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
06. Darn That Dream
07. I'm All Smiles
08. Lullaby of Broadway
09. You Go to My Head
10. We'll Be Together Again		play

Dianne Reeves 	- Vocals
Gregory Hutchinson - Drums
Romero Lubambo - Guitar
Peter Martin - Piano
Nicholas Payton - Trumpet
Reuben Rogers 	- Bass

With the meteoric success of Norah Jones' debut in the early 2000s, the message was clear: there's a real hunger for straightforward tunes with minimal froufrou. Jones' producer, Arif Mardin, has assembled another likely hit with A Little Moonlight, a collection of appealing standards. Empathically supported by Dianne Reeves' working trio, every track showcases her exceptionally rich and lovely instrument. Although longterm fans may consider her a bit subdued, her soulfulness is very much in evidence, and her voice, as always, goes down like mulled wine. There are samples of her trademark whimsical scatting, especially on the charming opener, "Loads of Love," "I'm All Smiles," and the grin-inducing "What a Little Moonlight Can Do." "I'm All Smiles" features a fine solo by the excellent pianist Peter Martin, who, like Ruben Rogers and Gregory Hutchinson, is terrific throughout. Peaks include two delicious duos with guest Romero Lubambo, the elegant Brazilian guitarist who's been on her last four albums: the airy "I Concentrate on You" and the yearning "Darn That Dream." Reeves' inspired pairing with Nicholas Payton on "You Go to My Head" has the intimate feel of closing time at a jazz club: the patrons are gone, the chairs are stacked on the tables, but the musicians still have something urgent and deeply personal to say. Even when the trio joins in, the after-hours atmosphere endures, with Payton scrolling around Reeves' lines and taking a magnificently misty solo. In "We'll Be Together Again," Reeves evokes the ghost of Sarah Vaughan -- another purely musical singer gifted with a flexible, velvety voice and soulful, natural phrasing. Double Grammy-winner Reeves had long been a genre-buster, so this straight-ahead album is a precedent for her; accessible and thoroughly enjoyable, it will undoubtedly gain her a whole new audience, while staying true to the banner of jazz. Recommended. ---Judith Schlesinger, Rovi

Following her Grammy-winning orchestral album The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan, jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves wished to return to a simpler, all-acoustic setting. So in December 2002, Reeves entered Right Track studios in New York City with legendary producer Arif Mardin (Aretha Franklin, Norah Jones) to record A Little Moonlight, an intimate collection of ten tunes featuring her touring trio: pianist Peter Martin, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson. "Most of the songs are about the moment you're ready to fall in love, and the record features one of my loves, my trio-up-close and personal," says Reeves. "I've had great groups over the years, but there is really something special playing with Peter, Reuben and Greg. We've worked together for so long that sometimes all it takes is a look to make the music come alive-and this record captures the magic between us." Besides the inspired trio, the album also features appearances by trumpeter Nicholas Payton and guitarist Romero Lubambo.

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01. I Want You [Feat: Sean Jones] [04:57]
02. Feels So Good (Lifted) [Feat George Duke & Nadia Washington] [04:25]
03. Dreams [Feat Gregory Porter] [05:19]
04. Satiated (Been Waiting) [Feat Lalah Hathaway] [05:38]
05. Waiting In Vain [06:35]
06. 32 Flavors [05:26]
07. Cold [06:13]
08. Wild Rose [Feat Esperanza Spalding] [05:50]
09. Stormy Weather [Feat Tineke Postma] [08:02]
10. Tango [Raul Midon] [06:35]
11. Unconditional Love (For You) [05:42]
12. Long Road Ahead [Feat Gregoire Maret] [03:59]

One of the preeminent female jazz vocalists in the world, Dianne Reeves, is set to release her Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, on February 11, 2014. The album showcases Reeves' sublime gifts by melding elements of R&B, Latin and pop within the framework of 21st Century jazz. "At its essence," says Reeves, "Life is beautiful and I wanted to celebrate that which is too often overlooked."

There should be no overlooking Beautiful Life, a journey of 12 songs which includes singularly memorable covers of Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain," Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" and Ani DiFranco's self-empowering "32 Flavors." Included in the rest of the tracks, which cover the spectrum from jazz to soul, are two new songs "Cold" and "Satiated" which are emotionally volcanic. Produced by Terri Lyne Carrington, Beautiful Life features an all-star cast that includes bassists Esperanza Spalding and Richard Bona, vocalists Gregory Porter and Lalah Hathaway, pianists Robert Glasper and Gerald Clayton and Reeves' cousin and frequent longtime collaborator George Duke.

Reeves, a four-time Grammy winner, has recorded and extensively performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis, who said of Reeves, "She has one of the most powerful, purposeful and accurate voices of this or any time." Reeves has also recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and was a featured soloist with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition, she was the first Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the first singer to ever perform at the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall. Reeves appeared throughout George Clooney's award winning Good Night and Good Luck and performed every song on the Grammy-winning soundtrack. More recently, Reeves has toured the world in a variety of contexts including a program entitled "Sing the Truth," a musical celebration of Nina Simone in which Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo were also featured. ---diannereeves.com

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01. Straighten Up And Fly Right
02. I've Got My Eyes On You
03. Gotta Be This Or That
04. Too Close For Comfort
05. How High The Moon
06. Who's Minding The Store?
07. You're Driving Me Crazy
08. Pretend
09. Solitude                     play
10. TV Is The Thing This Year
11. Pick Yourself Up
12. When I Fall In Love
13. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
14. There'll Be Another Spring
15. One For My Baby              play

Dianne Reeves - vocals
Peter Martin - piano, arranger
Matt Catingub - arranger, sax (tenor), sax (alto)
Christoph Luty - bass
Robert Hurst - bass
Alex Acuna - percussion
Alan Estes - percussion
Jeff Hamilton - drums

Dianne Reeves's cool contralto, fronted by a quicksilver combo featuring saxophonist Matt Catingub and pianist Peter Martin, provides the flowing jazz soundtrack to George Clooney's 1950s, film detailing the epic struggle between the legendary TV newsman Edward R. Murrow and the Communist-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy. Reeves' delivery is flawless and swinging on these mostly mid-tempo/ballad takes on several timeless classics (including Nat King Cole's "Straighten Up and Fly Right," Duke Ellington's "Solitude," and the bouncy Dinah Washington hit "TV is the Thing This Year"). Two other selections, "Pick Yourself Up" and "Too Close for Comfort," dance with a Latin lilt; the lone instrumental, "When I Fall in Love," is as romantic as they come. Mr. Murrow, who profiled both Ellington and Louis Armstrong on his pioneering See it Now show, loved jazz, so it's fitting that the music's grounding in freedom of expression and improvisation counterweighs the horrors of McCarthy's liberty-killing abuses. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

"Good Night, And Good Luck" follows the legendary Edward R. Murrow (David Straithairn) during the broadcaster's on-air confrontations with Senator Joseph McCarthy. Murrow, the then host of the CBS series, "See It Now," exposed the infamous politician's deceit, bullying, and manipulation in one of history's most courageous moments of journalism, an act that helped bring an end to the tyranny of the blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee anti-Communist hearings. "Good Night, And Good Luck" is directed by George Clooney, who co-wrote the script with the film's producer Grant Heslov. Clooney also stars as CBS News producer Fred Friendly.

"Good Night, And Good Luck" is shot entirely in black and white, with much of the mood and atmosphere created by the smoky jazz soundtrack and the gorgeous vocal talents of three-time GRAMMY(r) Award-winner Dianne Reeves. Clooney handpicked each of the songs featured in the movie, which Reeves, one of the preeminent jazz vocalists in the world today, also performs on screen. The soundtrack for "Good Night, And Good Luck" much of which was recorded live on film, features an original song, "Who's Minding the Store," along with such classics as "Too Close for Comfort," "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "One for My Baby," and "How High the Moon."

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01. My Funny Valentine
02. Come In
03. That Day                       play
04. Suzanne                        play
05. You Taught My Heart To Sing
06. Never Sad (Chan's Song)
07. Speak Low
08. Twelfth Of Never, The
09. In Your Eses

Personnel: 
Dianne Reeves (vocals); 
Romero Lubambo (guitar); 
Kevin Eubanks (acoustic guitar); 
George Duke (piano, keyboards); 
Billy Childs (piano, synthesizer); 
Mulgrew Miller (piano); 
Herbie Hancock (keyboards); 
Terri Lyne Carrington (drums).

The Music for Lovers series from EMI and Blue Note spotlights the balladic nature and romantic side of the artists who have recorded for its associated labels. Dianne Reeves performs in a variety of settings here, singing standards from the vocal jazz world as well as R&B and art rock. Beginning with an excellent 1982 reading of "My Funny Valentine" with Billy Childs, the volume picks up two Reeves performances from the late '80s (including one with Herbie Hancock), several from the late '90s (including a version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne"), and three from 2000 (including Reeves' own "Come In" with George Duke). ~ John Bush

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01 Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) -Strong, Whitfield 4:53 
02 Over the Weekend -Allen, Benson 5:24 
03 Lovin' You -Ripperton, Rudolph 5:29 
04 I'm in Love Again -Coleman, Schluger 4:45 
05 Midnight Sun -Burke, Hampton, Mercer 5:44 
06 Once I Loved -DeMoraes, Gilbert, Jobim 5:32          play
07 The Windmills of Your Mind -Bergman, Legrand 5:15 
08 Social Call -Basheer, Hendricks 4:18 
09 When You Know -Franzel, Kimmel 6:45 
10 Today Will Be a Good Day -Reeves 5:09                play

Dianne Reeves (vocals)
Romero Lubambo (acoustic guitar)
Russell Malone (electric guitar)
Karen Briggs , Sarah Thornblade (violin)
Matthew Funes, Alma Fernandez (viola)
Giovani Clayton (cello)
Steve Wilson (soprano saxophone)
Geoff Keezer, Billy Childs Trio (piano, Fender Rhodes piano)
George Duke (piano)
Billy Childs (Fender Rhodes piano)
Reginald Veal (acoustic bass, upright bass, washboard, tambourine)
Reuben Rogers (acoustic bass, electric bass)
Dave Carpenter (acoustic bass)
Susan A. Wulff (double bass)
Gregory Hutchinson, Antonio Sanchez , Oscar Seaton (drums)
Lenny Castro (percussion)

"There is a Gustav Klimt painting I had seen at the Belvedere in Vienna of a young woman moving through life. I remember loving the various depictions of the phases of her life from innocence to increasing maturity. In a similar way, this album progresses through songs which celebrate different phases of love, in much the same way our notions of love change as we move through time." ~ Dianne Reeves ~

Dianne Reeves has deservedly been hoisted on high as one of the top five jazz voices in the decade of the 2000s. Her four Grammy Awards and her music from the movie soundtrack Good Night, and Good Luck solidified Reeves' upper-echelon placement. When You Know showcases material going off into the shallow end of the pool, away from legitimate jazz, and covering languid and lush pop songs. George Duke, who has over-produced many a recording in his time, is not quite in the realm of Tommy LiPuma or Creed Taylor, but he has done more than his share to give Reeves an orchestrated backdrop to sing songs she likes. While it's good that the setting is acoustic, thanks to a string quartet and the guitar of Romero Lubambo, it seems the vocalist could do these tunes just as well without them. Then again, Reeves, who displays a picture-perfect instrument, has more often than not straddled the commercial line, and has freely crossed over it. This should not be much of a surprise to anyone. Her most impressive straight jazz cover, "Social Call" sports a second-chorus extrapolated lyric over the Wes Montgomery-styled electric guitar of Russell Malone. There's nothing phony or pretentious about this one. "Windmills of Your Mind" has an interesting modal arrangement within a waltz framework. "Once I Loved" is done nicely, but as in the case of the remainder of the other selections, lacks energy and originality. A light funk version of "Midnight Sun" does not compare favorably to Sarah Vaughan's classic version, and Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" should be left alone except for those who wish to sleep and snooze to it. Lubambo is the shining light of the session, heard on nine tracks in his own inimitable, passionate, classy manner. Most indulgent is "Today Will Be a Good Day," a rock shuffle with Malone's bluesy R&B guitar resembling something the Stray Cats might have done in the '80s. A disappointing project, it's a lazy, trite repeat of worn-out material as opposed to Reeves creating pathways for new ways of expression or reinventing great standards. ---Michael G. Nastos, Rovi

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1.    In Your Eyes
2.    I Remember Sky
3.    Suzanne
4.    Goodbye
5.    Bridges
6.    River
7.    Olokun
8.    Testify
9.    Mista
10.    1863
11.    Make Someone Happy

Dianne Reeves (vocals)
Kenny Garrett (saxophone)
Marcus Printup (trumpet)
Jimmy Zavala (harmonica)
Joe Locke (vibraphone, marimba)
George Duke (piano, Wurlitzer piano)
Mulgrew Miller, Billy Childs, Eddie Del Barrio (piano)
Romero Lubambo (guitar)
Reginald Veal, Stanley Clarke (bass)
Terri Lyne Carrington, Brian Blade (drums)
Munyungo Jackson (Morroccan drums, batajon, cricket, caxixi, shaker, whistle, tambourine, hi-hat, pipe, shells, frying pan, cheek pop, percussion, hand claps)
Manolo Badrena (bongos, percussion).

Dianne Reeves is such a talented and warm singer that many jazz fans wish that she would stick to performing jazz. Reeves, here, mostly performs music that is folk and pop oriented, sincere renditions that actually have very little improvisation. Only the closing, "Make Someone Happy" (which has a trumpet solo from Marcus Printup) is jazz oriented. Otherwise, Reeves sings pieces that apparently mean a lot to her (including a couple songs that might be autobiographical) with a band that has appearances by keyboardists Billy Childs, George Duke and Eddie Del Barrio, altoist Kenny Garrett, bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Terri Lynn Carrington and others. --- Scott Yanow, Rovi

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