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Track Listing
1. Just My Imagination
2. Over the Weekend
3. Lovin' You
4. I'm in Love Again
5. Midnight Sun
6. Once I Loved
7. Windmills of Your Mind
8. Social Call
9. When You Know
10. Today Will Be a Good Day
| Details | | Producer: | George Duke | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Dianne Reeves; Rumero Lubambo (acoustic guitar); Russell Malone (electric guitar); Karen Briggs , Sarah Thornblade (violin); Matthew Funes, Alma Fernandez (viola); Giovani Clayton (cello); Steve Wilson (soprano saxophone); Geoffrey Keezer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); George Duke (piano); Billy Childs (Fender Rhodes piano); Reginald Veal (acoustic bass, upright bass, washboard, tambourine); Reuben Rogers (acoustic bass, electric bass); Dave Carpenter (acoustic bass); Greg Hutchinson, Antonio Sanchez, Oscar Seaton (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).
Singer Dianne Reeves has proven herself one of the most popular and enduring jazz performers of the `00 decade. (Her appearance in the George Clooney film GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK certainly didn't hurt.) WHEN YOU KNOW is more a "pop" album with jazz overtones however. This time, Reeves wraps her compassionate, slightly dusky voice around such classic `60s/'70s radio hits as Minnie Riperton's first hit "Lovin' You" and the Temptations's "Just My Imagination." The set is a nice mix of acoustic (a string quartet) and electric (Russell Malone's bluesy guitar) elements, making for an attractive and thoughtfully varied listen.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [With] a creamy, un-Motown-like rendition of Just My Imagination'...[and] a version of Hendricks-Golson's 'Social Call' that demonstrates her ease with the art of vocalese...
Sounding, as always, like a sun-dappled glacier leisurely, meanderingly melting its way down a Colorado mountainside, Reeves shapes another eclectic play list...
3 stars out of 5 -- WHEN YOU KNOW shines in the quiet moments. Romero Lubambo's stark design for 'I'm In Love Again' offers the singer a chance to deliver a fetching soliloquy.
4 stars out of 5 -- A real surprise is the raw, self-penned blues-drenched closer, 'Today Will Be A Good Day'...
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