Dianne Reeves is to jazz with Jennifer Nettles is to country - a contemporary star who excels in her form.
Ms. Reeves made some well-regarded jazz albums in the 1980s, and in 1989 she scored a major coup with her fourth album, Never Too Far, which eventually reached number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. Singles from that album, "Come In" and "More to Love," were songs Ms. Reeves had a hand in writing. The title track, also a single, reached number five on the Billboard soul singles chart.
Among her accomplishments in this century are the soundtrack album for the 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck, about CBS broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow. Ms. Reeves played a jazz singer on CBS Television in that movie.
Fun fact: The late jazz composer and singer George Duke was her cousin.
Fun fact: The late jazz composer and singer George Duke was her cousin.
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