Dianne Reeves - Just My Imagination (Jazz Vocal)

 

재즈 보컬리스트 Dianne Reeves는 카산드라 윌슨과

함께 지난 10년 간 재즈 명가 <블루 노트>를 대표한

감성적인 흑인 여가수로 유명하다.

1980년대 초반 Sergio Mendes, Harry Belafonte의
투어 멤버로 활동하며 본격적인 솔로 행보를

다져나갔으며 이후 비평계는 그녀를 두고 빌리 할리데이,

엘라 피츠제랄드, 사라 본 등 위대했던 선배들의

여향(餘香)을 승계한
재즈보컬계의 보배로 평가 했다.

자유자재로 음감을 구사하는 즉흥 애드리브 감각이

그런 평을 말끔히 대변해며 감미롭게 읊조리는

Dianne Reeves의 보컬은 평온함마저 느껴진다.

 

현존하는 세계 최고의 재즈 보컬리스트로 일컬어지며

4장의 앨범으로 4년동안 연속으로 Grammy상을

수상한 보컬은 그녀 하나뿐이라 한다.

 

Each day through my window

I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, "You're such a lucky guy."
To have a girl like her
is truly a dream come true.
Out of all of the fellas in the world
she belongs to you...

 

But it was just my imagination
running away with me.
It was just my imagination
running away with me...

Soon we'll be married..
and raise a family.
In a cozy, little home out in the country
with two children, maybe three.
I tell you, I can visualize it all.
This couldn't be a dream for too real it all seems.

 

But it was just my imagination once again
running away with me.
I tell you it was just my imagination
running away with me...

 

Every night, on my knees I pray,
"Dear Lord, hear my plea...
don't ever let another take her love from me
or I will surely die.."
Ooh, her love is heavenly;
when her arms enfold me,
I hear a tender rhapsody...
but in reality, she doesn't even know me

 

Just my imagination once again
running away with me.
Tell you it was just my imagination
running away with me.
I never met her, but I can't forget her.
Just my imagination..