DIANNE REEVES - The Palo Alto Sessions (1996) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

This disc reissues Dianne Reeves' entire 1982 LP Welcome to My Love, plus three tracks from 1985's For Every Heart and one selection from her days as a vocalist with the band Caldera. It contains the first recorded version of her classic "Better Days" and one of the best renditions of the overworked standard "My Funny Valentine" as you're likely to hear. On Welcome, Reeves was exploring the jazz/R&B territory she would claim as her own a decade later. "For Every Heart" was much more commercial, but the three cuts chosen here are worthwhile, especially a duet with Jon Lucien, "Separate Vacations." by Frank Federico
Tracklist :
1     Ancient Source 4:50
Eduardo del Barrio
2     My Funny Valentine 6:35
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
3     Better Days 5:30
Tony Lorrich / Dianne Reeves
4     Mi Vida 4:01
Dianne Reeves
5     Hesitations 4:13
Billy Childs / Kirsten Childs
6     Welcome to My Love 6:04
Tony Lorrich / Dianne Reeves
7     Perfect Love 4:30
Oliver Scott
8     Lullaby 7:20
Billy Childs / Kirsten Childs
9     Passageway 4:43
Eduardo del Barrio / Ernesto Herrera / Roxanne Seeman
10     Siren Serenade 3:20
Billy Childs / Anthony Marinelli
11     Sitting in Limbo 6:48
Gully Bright / Jimmy Cliff
12     Be My Husband 4:03
Andy Stroud
13     Separate Vacations 6:02
Richard Cummings
Credits :
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Larry Klein
Bass Guitar – Angus Nunes
Cello – Nancy Stein
Congas, Percussion – Mike Azevedo
Congas, Percussion, Timbales – Hector Andrade
Drums – Carlos Vega, Harvey Mason, Joe Heredia, Kenwood Dennard
Electric Bass – Billy Carroll, Dean Cortez
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Jorge Strunz
Flute, Alto Flute, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Steve Tavaglione
Guitar – Daniel Carillo, Nicholas Kirgo
Keyboards – Richard Cummings
Percussion – Luis Conte, Neil Clarke
Piano, Synthesizer – Billy Childs
Saxophone – Don Menza, Ernie Watts
Synthesizer – Anthony Marinelli, Larry Dunn
Synthesizer, Electric Piano, Piano – Eduardo Del Barrio
Trombone – Bruce Paulson, Jon Bonine
Trumpet – Charles Davis, Larry Hall
Viola – Barbara Thomason, Linda Lipsett
Violin – Charles Veal Jr., Jeremy Cohen
Vocals – Dianne Reeves, Jon Lucien