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Dianne Reeves
Art & Survival

By Steven Fullwood

More than any other album in Dianne Reeves' career, Art & Survival stands as the key to understanding the artist's modus operandi. This is not an R&B/soul or a jazz album, but an electrifying 11-song memoir that weaves each genre with the urgency of gospel. Listeners will hear no trace of her last album, I Remember. Here listeners are privy to Reeves' further exploration into African rhythms and sounds. Here listeners get to know the real Dianne Reeves, bare and vulnerable.

Reeves is quoted as saying that this is the only album she recorded without inhibition, because it was only about her. In doing so, she indulges her eclecticism and daringly shows off a voice that is capable of either breaking your heart or healing it. In fact, healing is the theme of Art & Survival and it offers a glimpse of Reeves' irreverent future gifts.

She contributes writing credits to several songs including "Old Souls," "Freedom Dance," and "Endangered Species," all of which stand out as the most poignant contributions. On "Old Souls," Reeves heeds the call of the ancestor who challenges her to "do her best." Where "Freedom Dance" invites you to "follow the dreams that curve around you," "Endangered Species" outright signifies on the role of an artist with its battle cries of a sister who is nobody's victim and knows where her voice and soul belongs. She closes with Abby Lincoln's "Bird Alone," a solemn tune that affirms the unique course of Reeves' career as a warrior soaring high above, creating her own story. And what a story it is. M

June 2002

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