On the one hand the jazz Olympus of contemporary vocalists Diana Krall is, on the other are Dee Dee Bridgewater and Dianne Reeves. The latter certainly has the silkiest, elegant and yet so determined and most resilient voice of all. Of course, she emulates her great idol Sarah Vaughan, yet one thinks of Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson. This special blend of perfect jazz phrasing and soulful emotionality is the secret of the new CD by Dianne Reeves, 'When You Know'. The fourfold grams winner launches her new set with the Motown hit the Temptations, "Just My Imagination" and ends up with her dreamy interpretation equal a direct hit. Nancy Wilson hit "Over The Weekend" undergoes a similarly stunning new version. Both Minnie Rippertons "Lovin 'You" and Peggy Lee classic "I'm In Love Again" are simply brilliant. "Midnight Sun" impresses with its almost meditative groove, while "Windmills of Your Mind" by Bergmann a wonderful over the loss of her lover with leaves-mourning. About the theme song "When You Know" says Dianne Reeves: "I love this song because it simply reflects my state of mind at the end of the recordings perfectly". And then comes but a last song. Dianne's mother is 83 years old and, despite all the health problems the lady is highly civically active and engaged. "Today Will Be A Good Day" is a wonderfully rolling Blues, a tribute to her mother and the self-written by Reeves text tells of the wisdom of her mother and her graceful aging. 'When You Know' is finally a great studio album perhaps currently best jazz singer that is so smooth and effortlessly at home in the Soul, Smooth Jazz, Blues and Straight-Jazz that this CD, by none other than George Duke her cousin, produced a lot of friends will find all genre boundaries.
