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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.

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.

 

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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