Dianne Reeves

Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer. Reeves has won five Grammy awards from a total nine nominations.<ref name="conversation" /><ref name=Grammy />

Early life and education

Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, into a musical family. Her father sang, her mother played trumpet, her uncle is bassist Charles Burrell, and her cousin was George Duke. Her father died when she was two years old, and she was raised in Denver, Colorado, by her mother, Vada Swanson, and maternal family.<ref name="HistoryMakers biography">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reeves was raised Catholic and attended Cure D'Ars Catholic School in Denver for much of her early schooling.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="HistoryMakers biography" />

Career

In 1971, Reeves started singing and playing piano.<ref name="New Grove">Template:Cite book</ref> She was a member of her high-school band and while performing at a convention in Chicago was noticed by trumpeter Clark Terry, who invited her to sing with him. "He had these amazing all-star bands, but I had no idea who they all were! The thing I loved about it was the way they interacted with each other – the kind of intimate exchange that I wasn't part of. For a young singer, it was fertile soil."<ref name="Walters">Template:Cite news</ref> She studied classical voice at the University of Colorado.<ref name="conversation">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Reeves moved to Los Angeles, where she sang and recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Lenny White, and Billy Childs.<ref name=HancockInstitute>"Dianne Reeves", Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.</ref> She recorded with the band Caldera,<ref name="Loudon">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> then founded the band Night Flight with Billy Childs, with whom she would collaborate again in the 1990s. She moved to New York City and from 1983 to 1986 toured with Harry Belafonte.<ref name="New Grove" />

She signed with Blue Note in 1987 and that year her eponymous album, featuring Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, and Tony Williams, was nominated for a Grammy Award.<ref name=HancockInstitute /> She went on to win five Grammy Awards.<ref>"Dianne Reeves", International Jazz Day, April 30.</ref>

Music critic Scott Yanow has said of her: "A logical successor to Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae, Reeves is a superior interpreter of lyrics and a skilled scat singer."<ref name=AllMusic>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her sound has been compared to that of Patti Austin, Vanessa Rubin, Anita Baker, and Regina Belle.<ref name=AllMusic />

Reeves performed at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.<ref name=HancockInstitute /> In 2005, she appeared in the film Good Night, and Good Luck singing 1950s standards<ref name=AllMusic /> (including "How High the Moon", "I've Got My Eyes on You", "Too Close for Comfort", "Straighten Up and Fly Right" and "One for My Baby"). In 2006, the soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.<ref name="Walters" />

Reeves appeared in the 2021 documentary film JazzTown.<ref name=IMDb>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source

Discography

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Reeves in April 2011

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• Welcome to My Love (Palo Alto, 1982)
• For Every Heart (TBA & Tapes, 1984)
• Ballerina with Marcy Levy (BBC, 1984)
• Dianne Reeves (Blue Note, 1987)
• The Nearness of You (Blue Note, 1988)
• Never Too Far (EMI, 1989)
• I Remember (Blue Note, 1991)
• Quiet After the Storm (Blue Note, 1994)
• Art & Survival (EMI, 1994)
• Three Ladies of Jazz: Live in New York (Jazz Door, 1995)
• The Grand Encounter (Blue Note, 1996)
• New Morning (Blue Note, 1997)
• That Day (Blue Note, 1997)
• Bridges (Blue Note, 1999)
• In the Moment – Live in Concert (Blue Note, 2000)
• The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Blue Note, 2001)
• A Little Moonlight (Blue Note, 2003)
• Christmas Time Is Here (Blue Note, 2004)
• Good Night, and Good Luck (Concord Jazz, 2005)
• Music For Lovers (Blue Note, 2006)
• When You Know (Blue Note, 2008)
• Beautiful Life (Concord, 2013)
• Light Up the Night: Live in Marciac (Concord, 2016)

Filmography

• 1991: Appeared as singer in Guilty by Suspicion, directed by Irwin Winkler
• 2005: Appeared as jazz singer in Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by George Clooney
• 2005: Dianne Reeves "Live in Montreal" (Montreal International Jazz Festival 2000)
• 2008: Dianne Reeves: The Early Years, with Billy Childs and Snooky Young

Awards and honors

Grammy awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Reeves has received five awards out of nine nominations.<ref name="Grammy">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1990	Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female	I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Track)	Template:Nom
1995	Best Jazz Vocal Performance	Quiet After The Storm (Album)	Template:Nom
1998	Best Jazz Vocal Performance	"That Day... (Album)"	Template:Nom
1999	Best Jazz Vocal Performance	Bridges (Album)	Template:Nom
2000	Best Jazz Vocal Album	In the Moment – Live in Concert	Template:Won
2001	Best Jazz Vocal Album	The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan	Template:Won
2003	Best Jazz Vocal Album	A Little Moonlight	Template:Won
2005	Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary Or Inspirational	"Good Night, and Good Luck"	Template:Won
2014	Best Jazz Vocal Album	"Beautiful Life"	Template:Won

• 2003: Honorary doctorate, Berklee College of Music<ref>"Dr. Dianne Reeves, Students Play Blue Note, David Azarian Benefit", AllAboutJazz, May 1, 2003.</ref>
• 2015: Best Album, Jazz FM Awards, Beautiful Life
• 2015: Honorary doctorate, The Juilliard School<ref>"Juilliard to award Dianne Reeves an honorary music doctorate", JazzFM, March 2, 2015.</ref><ref>Simka, Joshua (May–August 2015),

"5 to Receive Honorary Doctorates | Commencement 2015", The Juilliard Journal.</ref>

• 2018: NEA Jazz Masters

External links

• Template:Official website
• Interview video Bamboo-music.com (English & French), March 2008.
• Thierry Quénum, "In Conversation with Dianne Reeves", Jazz.com, June 15, 2008
• Felix Contreras, "Dianne Reeves: A Jazz Voice With Pop Sensibilities", NPR, February 1, 2011.