Dianne Reeves - Bridges
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Artist: Dianne ReevesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-05-04
Music Label: BLUE NOTE
Soundtracks:
- In Your Eyes
- I Remember
- Suzanne
- Goodbye
- Bridges
- River
- Olokun
- Testify
- Mista
- 1863
- Make Someone Happy
Music reviews of Bridges
Music Review: Dianne "Dukes" It Out
Rating: 4 Stars
This review comes from the perspective of some one who knows producer George Duke better than singer Dianne Reeves, and this album has the sound and feel of a Duke production. It is sweet and melodic, definitely jazz, but with a respectful nod to other sensibilities, including pop, folk and R&B. Songwriting credits include Peter Gabriel (on "In Your Eyes", the album's best song), Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Milton Nascimento, Billy Childs and (drum roll, please) Dianne Reeves. In addition, Patsy Moore authored two love songs ("I Remember" and "Goodbye") that are among the most beautiful on the album. The instrumental backup is typically led by piano, with drums, bass and guitar. Although the piano work is shared four ways, by George Duke, Billy Childs, Mulgrew Miller and Eddie del Barrio, their playing seems to have a common feel, with alternately tinkling and pounding piano arrangements that appear on many tracks, and that strike me as similar to other recordings of Duke and Childs. Aside from the three songs already mentioned, my other favorites are the two written by Dianne, "Testify" and "Mista", both in an R&B mode. On "Testify", Dianne's talking and singing voices swirl around each other, strangely giving the faith-filled words double the impact they otherwise would have. There are three tracks I do not especially enjoy. Two of them are fine songs, "1863" and "Make Someone Happy", and I can't account for my neutrality to them with anything more profound than personal taste. The third song - the only failure on the album - is "River", the Joni Mitchell song about Christmas in southern California, wishing she "had a river to skate away on". The arrangement is ponderously slow and unimaginative - unlike, for example, the experimental, partly successful Billy Childs rearrangement of "Suzanne". Dianne does not have an exceptionally beautiful voice, and she does not stretch it with vocal acrobatics, yet it was hearing her on the radio that led me to buy this CD. Rather, she is every inch a professional, with tenderness and conviction in every word.
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After a spotty series of attempts at merging jazz with pop, Dianne Reeves creates a beautifully organic synthesis between the two on Bridges, which has all the makings (panache, innovation, accessibility) of a commercial breakthrough. Reeves thrives during a quintet of folk-jazz narratives midway through the disk, from a vivid take on Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" (set off by Kenny Garrett's human-cry soprano sax) to a wordless "Olokun" by pianist-arranger Billy Childs. In between are the delicately unfolding ballad "Goodbye" (an gorgeous, instant pop classic), a shimmering remake of Milton Nascimento's "Bridges" (anchored by a Nascimento-like acoustic guitar), and perhaps the best version of Joni Mitchell's "River" ever made. The fluid interplay and petulant sentiment of the back-porch blues tune "Mista" later provides a delicious change of pace. A blocky take on Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" and Reeves's sappy lyrics on "Testify" (marring a spare and spunky African-gospel rhythmic groove) prove that Bridges isn't perfect. But with sidemen like Garrett, pianist Mulgrew Miller, and bassist Reginald Veal on board for quality control, these lapses amount to minor quibbles about a sterling outing. --Britt Robson
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