Good Night, and Good Luck Grammy® Award Winner Dianne Reeves and Special Guest Jason Moran and The Bandwagon Perform at the Kimmel Center February 2
January 25, 2007
"Most female vocalists find one musical bag and hang on to it. We’re fortunate that Dianne Reeves doesn’t settle for one style fits all." -Jazz Times
Free at the Kimmel Khan Jamal Trio will Perform on the Commonwealth Plaza Stage at 6pm
Recognized as one of jazz’s pre-eminent vocalists, four-time Grammy® Award winner Dianne Reeves will perform with Jason Moran and The Bandwagon at the Kimmel Center on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 8pm. Reeves is the only vocalist in any singing category to have won three Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings. A "singer of frequently astonishing skill" (The New York Times), Reeves’ strong, agile voice, rhythmic virtuosity, and improvisational ease have garnered the jazz stylist her fourth Best Jazz Vocal Grammy® Award for the 2006 soundtrack of Oscar-nominated film Good Night, and Good Luck. Opening for the sultry chanteuse, trailblazing 2005 Pianist of the Year Jason Moran and his adventuresome trio explore the idiosyncrasies of jazz.
This performance is the seventh in the Mellon Jazz Series. The next concert in this series explores the Roots of Jazz with Spirituals: with Brian Blade on Saturday, February 10, 2007 at7:30pm.
Tickets for Dianne Reeves are $26, $46, $59, $64, $74 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-893-5883.
A limited number of $10 tickets are available for every Kimmel Center Presents performance at the Kimmel Center. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning 2.5 hours prior to curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.
Diane Reeves has said music should have "no boundaries." Her singing, a world mix of influences, including African, Brazilian, and the Caribbean, also infuses gospel and R&B, classic and contemporary pop sounds. Her musicianship is tied to powerful storytelling, one that surfaced in 1982 with her autobiographical hit Better Days, which conveys the message of hope sparked in all her work.
Reeves has recorded and performed extensively with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. She has 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 singer to ever perform at the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall. In late 2002, Reeves worked with legendary producer Arif Mardin (Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin) on the Grammy-winning A Little Moonlight, an intimate collection of ten standards featuring her touring trio. Reeves also released her first holiday collection Christmas Time is Here in 2004 to rave reviews.
More recently, Reeves appeared and performed in George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, the Academy Award nominated film that chronicles Edward R. Murrow’s confrontation with Senator Joseph McCarthy. In 2006, the soundtrack recording of Good Night, and Good Luck provided Reeves her fourth Best Jazz Vocal Grammy, In 2007, Reeves will be featured in a documentary on the brief but remarkable life of Billy Strayhorn, composer of the Duke Ellington signature "Take the A Train." Reeves’ first non-holiday, non-soundtrack recording in five years is expected this year.
Los Angeles Times has said of Reeves: "A natural storyteller, she used her timing and phrasing to bring novel insights to everything she sang.” And, People Magazine has noted: "She roams and explores, growls and catches at notes and phrasings. It is this audacity that makes Reeves’ voice an awesome instrument."
Houston-native Jason Moran began his career under the influence of jazz legend Thelonious Monk, a role model for his creative development. Moran went on to attend Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and eventually traveled to New York City where he continued his education at the Manhattan School of Music under pianist Jaki Byard. Moran began touring with saxophonist Greg Osby and made his professional recording debut on Osby’s 1997 Blue Note CD, Further Ado, which brought him to the attention of Blue Note executives who signed the pianist to his own record deal soon after. Since then, Moran has been awarded the 2005 Pianist of the Year and Jason Moran and The Bandwagon were awarded the 2005 Small Ensemble of the Year award by the Jazz Journalists Association. Moran has also received the first ever 2005 Playboy Magazine Jazz Artist of the Year. Jason Moran and The Bandwagon released their new recording Artist in Residence in 2006.
Kimmel Center Presents' 2006/2007 season is supported by: Mellon Financial Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Health System, National Endowment for the Arts, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, ARC Wheeler, The William Penn Foundation, The Wachovia Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Presser Foundation, Philadelphia Music Project and Dance Advance, Initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trust administered by The University of the Arts. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Jazz and World Pop programming. NBC-10 is a Media Partner for Kimmel Center Presents. The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com are media sponsors for the Great Orchestras on Tour series.
FREE AT THE KIMMEL events are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program supported by a generous grant from Wachovia Foundation.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS
Friday, February 2, 2007 | 8:00pm
Verizon Hall
Dianne Reeves, vocals
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon
Dianne Reeves and Trio
Peter Martin, Musical Director and piano
Reuben Rogers, bass
Greg Hutchinson, drums
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon
Jason Moran, piano
Tarus Mateen, bass
Nasheet Waits, drums
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FREE AT THE KIMMEL EVENT:
Friday, February 2, 2007 | 6:30pm
Commonwealth Plaza
Khan Jamal Trio
Philadelphia vibraphonist Khan Jamal performs creative improvised music with his Trio, including renowned improvisational drummer, Sunny Murray.
OTHER UPCOMING FREE AT THE KIMMEL EVENTS ARE:
Friday – Sunday, February 2-4, 2007 | post-show
Perelman Theater
Artist Chat
Join us for an Artist Chat with Artistic Director and Choreographer Rennie Harris and the Kimmel Center Director of Programming Tom Warner.
Saturday, February 3, 2007 | 11am | PNC Grow Up Great Free in the Plaza
Innovation Studio
Renaissance Artist Puppet Company
Custom designed puppets reenact scenes from Harriet Tubman and entertain family and children for Black History Month.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 | 6:30pm
Commonwealth Plaza
Pedrick-Smith Guitar Duo
In September 2002 Thomas Smith’s composition "River Rising" was premiered by the Pedrick Hutson guitar duo at the Philly Fringe Festival. Since then, the duo has recorded the piece for their CD Environs, and have extensively performed throughout the United States for guitar societies, concert series, and music festivals. Their music encompasses a variety of styles, including classical, jazz and world sounds. Prior to the ticketed Joshua Bell performance in Verizon Hall.
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