Jazz/R&B diva makes good on Tucson show that was lost courtesy the pandemic.
Cathalena E. Burch It’s been a little over three months since jazz/R&B diva Dianne Reeves was slated to take the stage for HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival — one of many events hampered by rising COVID-19 infection rates at the time.
“For me it was like I didn’t even want to get off the stage. It was like medicine; I really needed it,” she added. “It really, really supported my hope for things to open up. OK, maybe we’re getting through this. 2020 and the beginning of 2021 was like, sheesh, what is this. So we’re out here but at the same time with so many people getting sick. Even in 2020, 2021, I didn’t have this many people who were close to me who have gotten this.
During that early January conversation, Reeves said she was excited to get back out with her band to road test some of the Brazilian jazz she was working on for her latest album. Reeves said the Brazilian jazz, like the Cuban-inspired jazz she has done in her career, takes her out of her comfort zone “and puts me in other places where I feel a charge.” Expect that charge to spark some energy in the audience, she said.
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