Dianne Reeves - When You Know
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Artist: Dianne ReevesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
- Over the Weekend
- Lovin' You
- I'm In Love Again
- Midnight Sun
- Once I Loved
- The Windmills Of Your Mind
- Social Call
- When You Know
- Today Will Be A Good Day
Music reviews of When You Know
Music Review: One of her best
Rating: 5 Stars
It's been a while since I've gotten this excited about one of Dianne Reeves's studio recordings. I've attended her concerts at least once a year and, as so many others have commented, found the experience of hearing her live overshadows her studio sessions completely. Nothing since the album Bridges (1999) has come close to the kind of emotional and musical epiphany of experiencing her live. . . Until now.
There are quite a few live Dianne Reeves recordings available (including Live in Montreal and In the Moment: Live in Concert) which, along with seeing her live, have kept me hooked over the years. But her studio work since Bridges has been, I feel, more mainstream and less personal. "When You Know" harks back to the kind of album Bridges was: an eclectic selection of songs from many genres, with one original song ("Today Will Be a Good Day", inspired by her mother), some soaring straight ahead jazz scat singing, and an emotional flow from the first track to the last that creates the feeling of a story being told.
In fact, if you listen very closely, you'll hear some very sly lyrical references slipped into to certain tracks that link them more closely to each other. This is sort of in the vein of the Frank Sinatra "themed" albums, but much more personal and idiosyncratic.
Her voice continues to get better and better with each passing year, as did one her musical role models, Sarah Vaughan, and the musicians backing her up are all top drawer. They've been playing together long enough to reach the point where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. And while the other musicians have been given less solo space than usual in her studio albums-- and much less space than in her concerts, where she is very generous in allowing her fellow musicians some time in the spotlight-- as wonderful as her musicians are, I think the album flows more evenly with the focus squarely upon her.
During the track "Social Call", Dianne makes reference in her improvised lyrics to not yet having found that one special love, while celebrating all that singing has brought to her life and the widespread success that she has worked so hard for year after year. It's a subtle acknowledgment of the parts of her life that she must have had to sacrifice in order to succeed as a jazz singer.
Ella and Sarah were certainly never able to get their romantic life in order (Ella was only married once, and very briefly, to Ray Brown, and Sarah was married and divorced four times). It's hard to establish a stable romantic relationship when you're spending at least half the year touring the globe. If Dianne Reeves has, as I suspect, chosen to make the same sacrifice-- to devote herself to singing about love to the millions, while not having the time or space to find it herself-- then we are all the lucky beneficiaries.
In a culture where jazz is practically dead from a commercial standpoint, she has triumphed and gained widespread acclaim, despite the complaints of jazz purists who have routinely condemned her attempts to incorporate new sounds and new sources of material. They would prefer that she stick to dredging up the same jazz standards that have been done to death for 50 or 60 years now. They forget how much of Ella's and Sarah's recording material was also completely outside the realm of mainstream jazz, and yet still, like Dianne's, usually approached with a jazz sensibility.
Now, after 8 years of albums that, to my taste, were either too-straight-ahead jazz (A Little Moonlight), too tame (Good Night, and Good Luck.), too overproduced (the overbearing ochestrations in The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan), or too commercially oriented (Christmas Time Is Here), we finally have another masterpiece.
As she sings on this album, "you'll know when you know". When I heard her live for the first time at the Blue Note in NYC 1999, I knew that I knew. . . Dianne Reeves was the real thing, the true successor to the towering giants of jazz singing, Ella, Sarah, Billie and Carmen.
But I've been waiting for years to hear a studio album as inspiring, as uplifting, as musically deep as hearing her live. After listening to "When you Know", I know that I know. . . this album is the one.
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