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Saturday, May 03, 2008, 3:00 AM
Reeves shows her sassy style By Nekesa Mumbi Moody | AP Music Writer Dianne Reeves, "When You Know" (Blue Note Records) Dianne Reeves has an effortless, graceful style that makes anything she sings sound as sweet as nectar -- you can't help but drink it all up. Expect to get full off of her latest effort, "When You Know," her first CD in five years. Once again, the jazz vocalist tackles songs that are already part of pop's musical library, but instead of just old standards, she mixes in newer classics. But the best track of the album is its only original tune, the juke-joint groove "Today Will Be a Good Day," written by Reeves herself. An ode to celebrate life as it comes, Reeves goes for rollicking instead of refined, belting out her lines with the sass one can sometimes forget that she has.
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