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ARTISTS Dianne Reeves, vocals Russell Malone, guitar Romero Lubambo, guitar PROGRAM This evening’s program will be announced from the stage. There will be a pre-performance discussion at 6:30 pm with Russell Malone and Romero Lubambo hosted by Loren Schoenberg, artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, New York. PROGRAM: We gratefully acknowledge the generous support DIANNE REEVES— of Dr. Mary T. Jacobson and Dr. Lynn Gretkowski. STRINGS ATTACHED FEBRUARY 6/ 7:30 PM This program was generously funded by the Koret Foundation. The Koret Jazz Project is a multiyear initiative to support, expand, and celebrate the role of BING CONCERT HALL jazz in the artistic and educational programming of Stanford Live. PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. 26 STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 ABOUT THE PROGRAM Beautiful Life, Ms. Reeves’s newest recording, ROMERO LUBAMBO While Dianne Reeves has been exceedingly features some of the most engaging songs she Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1955, Romero comfortable at work with a spectrum of has offered in her storied, extraordinary career. Lubambo studied classical piano and music different musicians over the years, her “Even in a world with much sadness,” says Ms. theory as a young boy. From the time he periodic collaborations with guitarists Russell Reeves, “at its essence, life is beautiful, and I played his first notes on the guitar at 13, Malone and, separately, Romero Lubambo wanted to celebrate that which can be easily he devoted himself to that instrument. Mr. have been heralded as if each of them overlooked.” Most certainly, among those Lubambo graduated from the Villa-Lobos was Ms. Reeves’s musical soul mate. It was things not to be overlooked is Beautiful Life. School of Music in Rio in 1978, an outstanding only a matter of time before Ms. Reeves student of classical guitar; and in 1980, he would embark on the project of Strings For more information, see www.imnworld.com received a degree in mechanical engineering Attached—a tour with these two wondrous /diannereeves and www.diannereeves.com. from the Pontificia Universidade Católica do and impassioned guitarists. Their styles may Rio de Janeiro. seem worlds apart, but through Ms. Reeves, RUSSELL MALONE the common ground and artistic excellence Guitarist Russell Malone was born on In 1985, he left Brazil for New York, where of each artist results in musical rapture. November 8, 1963, in Albany, Georgia. he became very much in demand for His first exposure to music was through both his authentic Brazilian sound and his DIANNE REEVES his church. As the church music began command of a variety of styles. Mr. Lubambo A multiple Grammy winner, Dianne Reeves incorporating guitars, Mr. Malone found has performed and recorded with many has recorded and performed extensively himself fascinated by the instrument. Before outstanding artists, including Dianne Reeves, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra he was five, his mother bought him a toy Michael Brecker, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathleen Battle, featuring Wynton Marsalis, who said of guitar, and he began copying the church Diana Krall, Herbie Mann, Wynton Marsalis, Ms. Reeves, “She has one of the most players. At ten, Mr. Malone developed an Jane Monheit, Kenny Barron, Ivan Lins, powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices interest in the blues and country music after Grover Washington Jr., Vernon Reid, Flora of this or any time.” Ms. Reeves has also seeing such musicians as Chet Atkins, Glen Purim and Airto Moreira, Sadao Watanabe, recorded with the Chicago Symphony Campbell, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, B. B. Paquito D’Rivera, Harry Belafonte, Larry Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim King, and, especially, George Benson perform Coryell, Gato Barbieri, Leny Andrade, James and was a featured soloist with Sir Simon on television. Ultimately, it was jazz that Mr. Carter, Paula Robison, Dave Weckl, Claudia Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. In Malone chose to play. He became a self- Acuña, Jason Miles, Regina Carter, Mauro addition, she was the first Creative Chair taught player influenced by players such as Senise, and Cesar Camargo Mariano, among for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic B. B. King, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, others. He has also established himself as a and the first singer ever to perform at Kenny Burrell, and dozens of others whom he composer and performer on his own critically the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall. discovered through voracious research. acclaimed recording projects as well as on those of Trio Da Paz, a Brazilian jazz trio Mr. Ms. Reeves worked with legendary producer Mr. Malone first worked with master jazz Lubambo formed with Nilson Matta and Arif Mardin (Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin) organist Jimmy Smith in 1988 and between Duduka da Fonseca. on the Grammy-winning A Little Moonlight, 1990 and 1994 toured with Harry Connick an intimate collection of standards. When Jr. During the late 1990s, Mr. Malone toured Mr. Lubambo “may be the best practitioner Ms. Reeves’s holiday collection Christmas internationally with Diana Krall, receiving of his craft in the world today,” according to Time Is Here was released, Ben Ratliff of the critical acclaim for his role as Ms. Krall’s right Jazziz Magazine, which goes on to say that New York Times raved, “Ms. Reeves, a jazz hand both in concert and on her recordings. “the guitarist’s facility, creativity, and energy singer of frequently astonishing skill, takes the Mr. Malone has shared the stage with artists are in a class all their own.”• assignment seriously; this is one of the best of the caliber of Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, jazz Christmas CDs I’ve heard.” Claude “Fiddler” Williams, Bucky Pizzarelli, Natalie Cole, Benny Green, Jack McDuff, More recently, Ms. Reeves has toured the John Hicks, Clarence Carter, Little Anthony, world in a variety of contexts, which included Freddy Cole, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Barron, a program titled Sing the Truth, a musical Roy Hargrove, Cyrus Chestnut, Roy Brown, celebration of Nina Simone that also featured and Patti Austin. Mr. Malone was also a Lizz Wright and Angélique Kidjo. featured performer in Robert Altman’s 1996 film Kansas City. encoremediagroup.com 27.

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