Multiple Grammy winner Dianne Reeves’ new record is yet another excellent showcase for her voice. Whether wistful on her cover of the Motown hit “Just My Imagination,” playful on Jon Hendricks’ “Social Call,” Reeves’ voice glides over the high notes or inhabits her lower register with just the right amount of huskiness. The arrangements here are sparse with the emphasis on her voice and the guitars of Russell Malone and Romero Lumbambo. This takes the album in the direction of the bossa nova jazz records of the mid 1960s, but with a considerably brighter sound. Tunes such as Minnie Ripperton’s “Lovin’ You” have a Brazilian feel, but with a contemporary sound more in the vein of her records from the early part of this century.

Especially beautiful in totally different ways are the last two songs. On the first, the title track, Reeves’ voice soars above a children’s choir, and on the second, her only original on this CD, Reeves gets more down-home singing lyrics based on words of advice from her mother in a great gospel/acoustic blues context that would sound at home both in church and in the juke joint.