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Dianne
Reeves
That Day…
By Steven Fullwood
"We
can do it like we did on that day," sings Dianne Reeves on the
title track of her 9th album, That Day. The lyrics are based on a poem
of the same name by author Nikki
Giovanni. It is the first time that
Reeves' gets down and dirty on record, but even her down and dirty
sounds elegant due to the soft, layered jazz that backgrounds her
overtures.
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This album could be called her
"quiet" album. Laid back and self-assured, Reeves strolls
down pop music lane, selects a few of its classics and glosses each
with the luster of jazz. She takes Carole King's "Will You Still
Love Me Tomorrow" and stretches it over a threadbare arrangement,
and cradles "Morning Has Broken" in her breast, as if she
were Mother Earth surveying the very first morning.
Music, as always, figures in prominently
with Reeves. Yet, the understated approach of the musicianship of this
album is particularly interesting. Jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington,
guiding a capable ensemble including Mulgrew Miller, Jeff Littleton,
Kevin Eubanks, Bob Shepard, and others, produces That Day. These
musicians never falter and give Reeves a solid ground to get her
sensual groove on.
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She closes the album with a cover of Billie
Holiday's classic "Ain't Nobody Business (If I Do)" - a
delight. While accompanied only by acoustic guitar (Eubanks), Reeves
breaks feminist and revises a line: "I'd rather my man quit me,
than for him to even rare up and think about how he might even try and
hit me." Indeed. M
June 2002
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