Good Night, and Good Luck: Music From and Inspired By the Motion Picture

CML call number: CD SOUNDTRACKS Good
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "'I work with my ear and try to make it feel right, or I just keep changing it until I like the way it tastes.' So does every musician. But from Dianne Reeves this formula sounds excessively humble. Ms. Reeves isn't stumbling around in the dark; she has the training, the tools, the instrument. Hers is a big and forthright voice, one that sounds as if it might have been trained over the blare of a touring big band, except that such a model hardly exists anymore. She is a jazz singer who has absorbed some of the loftiest and most difficult models: Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, Shirley Horn. She treats standards with skyscraper authority, drawing a circle of repertory wide enough to include material from her favorite singer-songwriters; she has her own vocal and performance devices, subdividing vowels into a dozen notes, pouring forth welcomes and singsong advice to her audience. Her most recent record, which won her a fourth Grammy Award, was the soundtrack to the 2005 film 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' in which she climbs into the 1950s without affectation" (4/20/07).