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Performer: Dianne Reeves
Engineer: Erik Zobler
Producer: George Duke
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Dianne Reeves; Rumero Lubambo (acoustic guitar); Russell Malone (electric guitar); Karen Briggs , Sarah Thornblade (violin); Matthew Funes, Alma Fernandez (viola); Giovani Clayton (cello); Steve Wilson (soprano saxophone); Geoffrey Keezer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); George Duke (piano); Billy Childs (Fender Rhodes piano); Reginald Veal (acoustic bass, upright bass, washboard, tambourine); Reuben Rogers (acoustic bass, electric bass); Dave Carpenter (acoustic bass); Greg Hutchinson, Antonio Sanchez, Oscar Seaton (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion). Singer Dianne Reeves has proven herself one of the most popular and enduring jazz performers of the `00 decade. (Her appearance in the George Clooney film GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK certainly didn't hurt.) WHEN YOU KNOW is more a "pop" album with jazz overtones however. This time, Reeves wraps her compassionate, slightly dusky voice around such classic `60s/'70s radio hits as Minnie Riperton's first hit "Lovin' You" and the Temptations's "Just My Imagination." The set is a nice mix of acoustic (a string quartet) and electric (Russell Malone's bluesy guitar) elements, making for an attractive and thoughtfully varied listen.

Down Beat (p.63) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "WHEN YOU KNOW shines in the quiet moments. Romero Lubambo's stark design for 'I'm In Love Again' offers the singer a chance to deliver a fetching soliloquy." JazzTimes (p.107) - "Sounding, as always, like a sun-dappled glacier leisurely, meanderingly melting its way down a Colorado mountainside, Reeves shapes another eclectic play list..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a creamy, un-Motown-like rendition of Just My Imagination'...[and] a version of Hendricks-Golson's 'Social Call' that demonstrates her ease with the art of vocalese..."

Perhaps the most traditional sounding of all contemporary jazz vocalists, Diane Reeves was born in 1956 into a musical family. (Keyboardist George Duke is a cousin.) Moving to L.A. in 1977, she first followed an eclectic path, performing with Eduardo Del Barrio, Sergio Mendes, Billy Childs, and Harry Belafonte before being signed to the newly revitalized Blue Note Records in 1987. Possessed of a lush voice much like her original model Sarah Vaughan--her tribute album, THE CALLING: CELEBRATING SARAH VAUGHAN, won a Grammy Award in 2001--Reeves's vivid recreation of a '50s-era late night recording session in the 2006 production GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK was a high-point of both her career and the film itself. The accompanying soundtrack also garnered Reeves her fourth Grammy in 2007.

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