Dianne Reeves with Quintet and Orchestra
Stanford Jazz Workshop 50th Anniversary Band
"She has one of the most powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices of this or any time." -- Wynton Marsalis
With her vocal prowess, it's no surprise that Dianne Reeves has received five Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, an honorary doctorate of music from Julliard, and was recently named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master. To close this special 50th Anniversary concert, Dianne will be accompanied by her quintet and by a full orchestra.
The SJW 50th Anniversary Band is truly a superband of musicians who have shaped the sound of jazz in recent decades. The astonishing artists of this ensemble share one additional thing in common: time spent at SJW as young jazz musicians. Now they're going to be raising a glass -- and their horns and voices -- to celebrate 50 years of the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
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"The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday," (NY Times) GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz's greatest living vocalist -- an artist who embodies the music's enduring values of elegance, class and improvisational poise. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for her contributions to the soundtrack of George Clooney's film Good Night and Good Luck. She's a performer with a gift for imbuing any performance space with the intimacy of a living room, and her 2015 Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, melding jazz with elements of R&B, pop and Latin music.
Whether putting a personal stamp on lilting Brazilian standards, exploring contemporary fair by Ani DiFranco and Stevie Nicks, interpreting American Songbook classics by the Gershwin, Porter and Berlin, or breathing fresh life into holiday chestnuts, Dianne Reeves always gets to the heart of a song. More than two generations have passed since jazz stars took on aristocratic titles, otherwise Dianne Reeves would surely be known as The Queen.
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Stanford Jazz Workshop 50th Anniversary Band
"She has one of the most powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices of this or any time." -- Wynton Marsalis
With her vocal prowess, it's no surprise that Dianne Reeves has received five Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, an honorary doctorate of music from Julliard, and was recently named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master. To close this special 50th Anniversary concert, Dianne will be accompanied by her quintet and by a full orchestra.
The SJW 50th Anniversary Band is truly a superband of musicians who have shaped the sound of jazz in recent decades. The astonishing artists of this ensemble share one additional thing in common: time spent at SJW as young jazz musicians. Now they're going to be raising a glass -- and their horns and voices -- to celebrate 50 years of the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
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"The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday," (NY Times) GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz's greatest living vocalist -- an artist who embodies the music's enduring values of elegance, class and improvisational poise. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for her contributions to the soundtrack of George Clooney's film Good Night and Good Luck. She's a performer with a gift for imbuing any performance space with the intimacy of a living room, and her 2015 Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, melding jazz with elements of R&B, pop and Latin music.
Whether putting a personal stamp on lilting Brazilian standards, exploring contemporary fair by Ani DiFranco and Stevie Nicks, interpreting American Songbook classics by the Gershwin, Porter and Berlin, or breathing fresh life into holiday chestnuts, Dianne Reeves always gets to the heart of a song. More than two generations have passed since jazz stars took on aristocratic titles, otherwise Dianne Reeves would surely be known as The Queen.
Dianne Reeves with Quintet and Orchestra
Stanford Jazz Workshop 50th Anniversary Band
"She has one of the most powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices of this or any time." -- Wynton Marsalis
With her vocal prowess, it's no surprise that Dianne Reeves has received five Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, an honorary doctorate of music from Julliard, and was recently named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master. To close this special 50th Anniversary concert, Dianne will be accompanied by her quintet and by a full orchestra.
The SJW 50th Anniversary Band is truly a superband of musicians who have shaped the sound of jazz in recent decades. The astonishing artists of this ensemble share one additional thing in common: time spent at SJW as young jazz musicians. Now they're going to be raising a glass -- and their horns and voices -- to celebrate 50 years of the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
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"The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday," (NY Times) GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz's greatest living vocalist -- an artist who embodies the music's enduring values of elegance, class and improvisational poise. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for her contributions to the soundtrack of George Clooney's film Good Night and Good Luck. She's a performer with a gift for imbuing any performance space with the intimacy of a living room, and her 2015 Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, melding jazz with elements of R&B, pop and Latin music.
Whether putting a personal stamp on lilting Brazilian standards, exploring contemporary fair by Ani DiFranco and Stevie Nicks, interpreting American Songbook classics by the Gershwin, Porter and Berlin, or breathing fresh life into holiday chestnuts, Dianne Reeves always gets to the heart of a song. More than two generations have passed since jazz stars took on aristocratic titles, otherwise Dianne Reeves would surely be known as The Queen.
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Stanford Jazz Workshop 50th Anniversary Band
"She has one of the most powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices of this or any time." -- Wynton Marsalis
With her vocal prowess, it's no surprise that Dianne Reeves has received five Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, an honorary doctorate of music from Julliard, and was recently named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master. To close this special 50th Anniversary concert, Dianne will be accompanied by her quintet and by a full orchestra.
The SJW 50th Anniversary Band is truly a superband of musicians who have shaped the sound of jazz in recent decades. The astonishing artists of this ensemble share one additional thing in common: time spent at SJW as young jazz musicians. Now they're going to be raising a glass -- and their horns and voices -- to celebrate 50 years of the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
~~~~~~~~~
"The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday," (NY Times) GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz's greatest living vocalist -- an artist who embodies the music's enduring values of elegance, class and improvisational poise. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for her contributions to the soundtrack of George Clooney's film Good Night and Good Luck. She's a performer with a gift for imbuing any performance space with the intimacy of a living room, and her 2015 Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, melding jazz with elements of R&B, pop and Latin music.
Whether putting a personal stamp on lilting Brazilian standards, exploring contemporary fair by Ani DiFranco and Stevie Nicks, interpreting American Songbook classics by the Gershwin, Porter and Berlin, or breathing fresh life into holiday chestnuts, Dianne Reeves always gets to the heart of a song. More than two generations have passed since jazz stars took on aristocratic titles, otherwise Dianne Reeves would surely be known as The Queen.
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