Dianne Reeves Vocal Jazz Masterclass @ 2010 Next Generation Jazz Festival

Dianne Reeves, the 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence and 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master recipient, gives a vocal jazz masterclass at the 2010 Next Generation Jazz Festival in from of a live student audience. This event took place on April 10, 2010 at the Monterey Conference Center in the Serra Ballroom.
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[@rosadiaz4691]

Wow she's great!

[@DianneReevesFan]

These young vocalists were very impressive. I wonder if they continued their musical journey. Dianne was brilliant, as always.

[@Self-taughtJay]

The part where she said "we got locked in the song" is really true. We tend to think of perfect pitch and voice that we forget we're telling a story. ❤️

[@you28me82]

What a delightful hour with a genius of an educator! Being local, I normally attend all the NextGens in person, but I clearly missed this masterclass, because it was brand-new to me as I watched it here during the virtual 2020 NextGen. This is worth your full attention for the entire hour. You will not believe how Ms Reeves is able to lead these already talented young singers into levels of understanding and performance that they never knew they had. And she also lets us in on some of her own tradecraft, especially at the end. Love it!

[@you28me82]

Love how Diane had them introduce themselves!

[@johnathanvictor9216]

@Maxim Clyde Yup, I have been watching on InstaFlixxer for months myself =)

[@maduroholdings]

An amazing methodology in helping singers discover meaning in the song and themselves

[@terryeichler351]

When the student is ready the teacher appears. Each of these vocalists got some expansive lessons from someone who knows what she was talking about and in a real loving and friendly way.

[@gabrieleschulze7627]

I experienced Dianne Reeves like this in a concert as well. Very encompassing and including to everyone, her fellow musicians and the audience. It had almost a spiritual dimension.

[@suzanneeberhardt3024]

that was great - and those kids have real budding talent withthe right coaches like Dianne they will soar

[@bashaletsididi3409]

I loooved how you made you started the intro and how they followed suit! Great hour I spent here and will re-visit over and over. There’s a lot of insights here from the Legend. Thank you

[@nancychace8619]

This was a good class. Hope next time the sound's better - I would put my ear close when the sound was down b/c I was trying to hear it, it's interesting, then the sound would blast my ear off - yikes! Dianne's good with the kids 🙂 Thanks for sharing.

[@nancychace8619]

Also, thanks to the accompanists - really nice job. Gives the kids some good experience.

[@racismisntanopinion2591]

This was wonderful! Hopefully there is a version with better audio recording that can be uploaded?

[@1nikitawhite]

Brilliant!! Miss. Reeves brakes the tunes down to the simplist or lowest domination that's genius! Unheard her say to a young inspiring singet once, " you have to write the lyrics out, in your own handwriting!" That makes perfect sense. Don't type them out, you must write them out because that's two different functions in the brain. Writing you can internalize the lyrics on a deeper level.

[@hongsStuff]

Brillant lecture!

[@anugrahpandey9841]

: I am 16 years old Me: 🫠

[@RonCarterBassist]

👍🏾👍🏾

[@bababui69foru]

This is from 2010. Anyone know what has become of their careers?

[@midnitexstar]

so when you drag out your singing and the band continues, how do you know when to get back together so you're not sounding off? Or is that the job of the a good accompanist to figure that out?

[@aprilli3811]

Anybody got the list of the songs?

[@daniellaciccone909]

the first one sounds like the melody for chega de saudade by tom jobim :)

[@Michael-Oh]

Why do nearly all these masterclasses have awful sound recordings? It destroys the archive of this class...

[@bobslivevideos4808]

Man I can’t even get past 15 minutes!

[@pauldeck4500]

First student may have had very little stage experience. It's hard to hear yourself, and guitar accompaniment doesn't provide the same tonal saturation that you get from piano, and the guitarist wasn't all that accommodating, either, in my opinion -- the main job of an accompanist is to help the soloist sound her best. Sounding YOUR best is secondary. Probably a great learning experience for that girl -- I believe she said she was 15 or something. She had an easier time at the faster tempo -- Dianne picked up on that right away. Ballads are HARD.

[@nadia-singpiano]

Ballads are hard, but chega de saudade is not a ballad ;)

[@regineweibgen2820]

How do you know you like to sing Jazz when you are only 17? Anyway thats a great approach

[@jazura2]

I did and I still do!

[@sheireland3737]

Why do all masterclasses focus on putting feeling into songs. That’s the first thing you do. What about vocal technique? Jazz vocal traits?

[@mannykeller]

Why do creators of some of these jazz videos entrust the audio to incompetent sound people who do not know basic gain structure ? Shouldn’t sound be the most important thing in music?

[@Hexspa]

40% distortion. Good singers though.