Jazz / Vocal
Urban
Hard Bop
Vocal Pop
Traditional Pop
Vocal Jazz
Recorded between 1981 and 1985
Dianne Reeves: Vocals
Steve Tavaglione and Don Menza: Saxophones
Jon Bonine, Bruce Paulson: Trombone
Charlie Davis and Larry Hall: Trumpet
Eddie del Barrio, Billy Childs: Piano
Jorge Strunz, Larry Klein and Nick Kirgo: Guitar
Dean Cortez, Billy Carroll and Angus Nunes: Bass
Carlos Vega, Joe Heredia, Harvey Mason and Kenwood Denard: Drums
Hector Andrade, Mike Azevedo, Luis Conte and Neil Clarke: Percussion
Larry Dunn and Richard Cummings: Synthesizers
Linda Lipsett and Barbara Thomason: Violas
Nancy Stein: Cello
Charles Veal Jr. and Jeremy Cohen: Violins
The Palo Alto Sessions: 1981-1985 contains two full albums that Dianne Reeves made for Palo Alto Records. This release was produced by Dianne Reeves.
This disc reissues Dianne Reeves' entire 1982 LP Welcome to My Love, plus three tracks from 1985's For Every Heart and one selection from her days as a vocalist with the band Caldera. It contains the first recorded version of her classic "Better Days" and one of the best renditions of the overworked standard "My Funny Valentine" as you're likely to hear. On Welcome, Reeves was exploring the jazz/R&B territory she would claim as her own a decade later. "For Every Heart" was much more commercial, but the three cuts chosen here are worthwhile, especially a duet with Jon Lucien, "Separate Vacations."
---Frank Federico, allmusic |
