Music

Dianne Reeves

Concert

Piazza Duomo

Sunday 03 July Ore 21:30

TICKETS
Gold sector €50,00
Sector I piazza €40,00
Sector II piazza €30,00
Sector I staircase €25,00
Second sector steps €18,00

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voice

Dianne Reeves

piano

John Beasley

guitar

Romero Lubambo

bass

Itaiguara Brandão

drums

Terreon Gully

Dianne Reeves is considered the descendant of the lyrical-jazz legacy of the great Sarah Vaughan. ‘The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday’, the New York Times called her. But while the names of Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald are often invoked as proof of her class, Dianne Reeves has opened herself up to a wider world of jazz. From her earliest years she has been influenced by the sounds of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and her performances always reveal new depths of a passionate, fearless and technically astonishing artist.

 

Winner of five Grammy Awards, including one for her award-winning score to George Clooney’s film Good Night and Good Luck, Reeves blends her timeless grace, elegance and charisma into unforgettable performances. Her stylistic versatility and her vocal and expressive means allow her to confront different repertoires, to take up the tradition of jazz singing in a personal way, as well as to try her hand at rhythm’n’blues and the most sophisticated pop, making each of her performances a masterpiece.

 

“For me, everything is music”, says Diane Reeves, “and music is an art that has the power to cross boundaries between genres and transcend limits. I have had the great opportunity to come into contact with music from all over the world and to choose, to sing what I feel is mine”.

in collaboration with Umbria Jazz

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Dianne Reeves © Jerris Madison

Dianne Reeves © Jerris Madison

Dianne Reeves © Jerris Madison

Biographies

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves © Jerris Madison

Five-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world. As a result of her breathtaking virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B stylings, Reeves received the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings – a Grammy first in any vocal category.

Featured in George Clooney’s six-time Academy Award nominated Good Night, and Good Luck, Reeves won the Best Jazz Vocal Grammy for the film’s soundtrack. 

Reeves has recorded and performed with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. She has also recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and was a featured soloist with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Reeves was the first Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the first vocalist to ever perform at the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Reeves worked with legendary producer Arif Mardin (Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin) on the Grammy winning A Little Moonlight, an intimate collection of standards featuring her touring trio. When Reeves’ holiday collection Christmas Time is Here was released, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times raved, “Ms. Reeves, a jazz singer of frequently astonishing skill, takes the assignment seriously; this is one of the best jazz Christmas CD’s I’ve heard.”

In recent years Reeves has toured the world in a variety of contexts including “Sing the Truth,” a musical celebration of Nina Simone which also featured Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo. She performed at the White House on multiple occasions including President Obama’s State Dinner for the President of China as well as the Governors’ Ball. 

Reeves’ most recent release Beautiful Life, features Gregory Porter, Robert Glasper, Lalah Hathaway and Esperanza Spalding. Produced by Terri Lyne Carrington, Beautiful Life won the 2015 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. Reeves is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music and the Juilliard School.  In 2018 the National Endowment for the Arts designated Reeves a Jazz Master – the highest honor the United States bestows on jazz artists.