Vocalist

A savvy bandleader, celebrated film composer, brilliant jazz writer, and influential educator, the GRAMMY-winning New Orleans native is a major creative force in the contemporary jazz scene. He has composed over 40 movie scores, including soundtracks for most of director Spike Lee’s work, making Blanchard the most prolific jazz artist working in film. He conceived the E-Collective to explore the intersection of jazz, R&B, funk, and fusion, and describes the project as an outlet to satisfy a yearning he’s had for years to explore areas of music that he’s always loved but rarely ventured into.

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Terence Blanchard E-collective & Turtle Island Quartet

SFJAZZ Center

Renowned drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and acclaimed vocalist Dianne Reeves unite. Inspired by Carrington’s Grammy Award-winning 2022 album New Standards, Carrington and Reeves perform a rich selection of works by female jazz composers that span eras, geographical borders, and genres — from blues to bebop and beyond. Energized by the remarkable talents of multiple Grammy winners and NEA Jazz Masters Carrington and Reeves, New Standards is a sensational celebration of the accomplishments of women in jazz.

Terri Lyne Carrington New Standards with Special Guest Dianne Reeves

College of Charleston

Experience the unparalleled power of preeminent vocalist and NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves, Afro-Cuban jazz icon Chucho Valdés and the “restlessly creative” (Jazz at Lincoln Center) saxophonist Joe Lovano as they join forces for an unforgettable evening of duets at Symphony Center.

Duets: Dianne Reeves, Chucho Valdés & Joe Lovano

Symphony Center

Three all-time greats come together for a rare evening of intimate duets. Winner of seven Grammy and four Latin Grammy Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz and a perennial Celebrity Series audience favorite.

Duets – Dianne Reeves, Chucho Valdés, and Joe Lovano

Berklee College of Music

Three all-time greats come together for a rare evening of intimate duets. Winner of seven Grammy and four Latin Grammy Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés(Opens in a new window) is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz and a perennial Celebrity Series audience favorite.

Duets: Dianne Reeves, Chucho Valdés, and Joe Lovano

“The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday,” (NY Times) GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz’s greatest living vocalist — an artist who embodies the music’s enduring values of elegance, class, and improvisational poise.



Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves with Romero Lubambo

Healdsburg Farmers’ Market

Bacchus Landing

Hotel Healdsburg

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

With her vocal prowess, it’s no surprise that Dianne Reeves has received five Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album, an honorary doctorate of music from Julliard, and was recently named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master – the highest honor the United States bestows on jazz artists. The albums in her Blue Note discography are among the finest jazz vocal albums every made, featuring side players who are all giants in their own rights — Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, and many others. To close this special 50th Anniversary concert, Dianne will be accompanied by her quintet and by a full orchestra conducted by multi-Grammy winner Vince Mendoza.
The SJW 50th Anniversary Band is truly a superband of musicians who have shaped the sound of jazz in recent decades. The astonishing artists of this ensemble share one thing in common: time at SJW as young jazz musicians. Now they’re going to be raising a glass — and their horns and voices — to celebrate 50 years of the Stanford Jazz Workshop.

Dianne Reeves with Quintet and Orchestra / SJW 50th Anniversary Band

Stanford University

Dianne Reeves made a stunning Series debut in 2024’s Duets concert alongside Chucho Valdés and Joe Lovano, and we’re thrilled to welcome her back for an evening in the spotlight. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the charismatic Reeves is “a natural storyteller, [using her] timing and phrasing to bring novel insights to everything she sang” (Los Angeles Times).

“The most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday” (NY Times), five-time GRAMMY winner and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves is jazz’s greatest living vocalist — an artist who embodies the music’s enduring values of elegance, class, and improvisational poise. Her string of GRAMMYs includes an unprecedented three consecutive Best Jazz Vocal Performance awards and another for her contributions to the soundtrack of George Clooney’s film Good Night and Good Luck.

Five-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Dianne Reeves is the preeminent jazz vocalist of our time. She is renowned for her virtuosity, improvisational prowess and seamless fusion of jazz and R&B. She is the recipient of multiple honorary doctorates and is a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master — the nation’s highest honor bestowed to jazz artists. She has recorded and performed with legends including Harry Belafonte, George Duke, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Robert Glasper and Wynton Marsalis.

Vocalist

Dianne Reeves

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 6, 2026

Dianne Reeves · Celebrity Series of Boston

20 - 22 Feb, 2026

Dianne Reeves · San Francisco Jazz

Mar 20, 2026

Dianne Reeves · Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Past events

23 - 26 Jan, 2025

Terence Blanchard E-collective & Turtle Island Quartet · San Francisco Jazz

23 - 26 Jan, 2025

Terence Blanchard E-collective & Turtle Island Quartet · San Francisco Jazz

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