Dee Dee Bridgewater & Ray Brown Trio - Estival Jazz Lugano 1998

Published on Jun 10, 2017
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● Personnel:
Dee Dee Bridgewater - vocals
Ray Brown - bass
Geoffrey Keezer - piano
Karriem Riggins - drums

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Live at Estival Jazz Lugano, Piazza della Riforma, Switzerland, July 10th, 1998
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Dee Dee Bridgewater On Piano Jazz

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

#throwbackThursday @ddbprods at @ChiJazzFest 2015 -- Dee Dee Bridgewater was just named @NEAarts 2017 Jazz Master! pic.twitter.com/zoUUnI6GkN

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Dee Dee Bridgewater On JazzSet

by MARK SCHRAMM

Dee Dee Bridgewater's smile says it all: JazzSet is happily celebrating 20 years of performances every week on NPR. In September, we featured original host Branford Marsalis with his 2012 quartet for our anniversary. Now, today's host Dee Dee Bridgewater weaves her spell and leads a crack quintet through a new set from the Caramoor Jazz Festival.

Held each summer in the lovely hillside country of Westchester County, the Caramoor Jazz Festival is in a Venetian theatre in a rolling woods, about 40 miles northeast of New York City. All summer, Caramoor presents chamber music, opera, Latin music, a resident orchestra and more — rain or shine. The 2012 jazz lineup featured Bridgewater, drummer extraordinaire Roy Haynes, solo pianist Kenny Barron, award-winning vocalist Gretchen Parlato and the smoking-hot Cookers all-star band.

Bridgewater's musical director is Edsel Gomez, arranger and pianist. He's her orchestra, pacesetter and descarga driver all in one. Craig "My Handyman" Handy on saxophone shadows and boxes with Bridgewater's voice. They revel in their closeness in "Besame Mucho." Michael Bowie played bass for Abbey Lincoln, one of Bridgewater's mentors and friends (as heard in her Tribute to Abbey on JazzSet). Bridgewater first heard Kenny Phelps last year in the house band at The Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis. He was accompanying finalists in the American Pianists Association competition. She loved the pianists, but she got Phelps' phone number on the spot.

After Bridgewater's set at Caramoor, there was a moment backstage when she reunited with her dear friend Roy Haynes. Flashbulbs were popping as they admired each other's shoes. (Thanks to Richard Conde for the picture.)

Haynes' Fountain of Youth Band (Jaleel Shaw, Martin Bejerano, David Wong) give us a little something extra for the site, fulfilling a request from someone in the audience for "All Blues."

The 2013 Caramoor Jazz Festival will be the 20th, and it's already scheduled for July 26-28. Jim Luce produces the Caramoor Jazz Festival. Managing director is Paul Rosenbloom.

From: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/08/164792007/dee-dee-bridgewater-on-jazzset?ft=3&f=126134671&sc=nl&cc=jn-20121111

Dee Dee Bridgewater - To BIllie With Love - A Celebration of Lady Day

Dee Dee Bridgewater - To BIllie With Love - A Celebration of Lady Day

Mon 14th - Fri 18th MarchArguably the best jazz singer of her generation, Dee Dee Bridgewater sang with Roy Ayers and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra in the '70s and appeared in the Broadway musical The Wiz. But it was in the late '80s and a series of fantastic albums for the Verve label that she received international acclaim, including a Grammy award-winning celebration of Ella and more recent recordings of French Chanson, Kurt Weill and last year's brilliant 'To Billie With Love', a heart felt celebration of Billie Holiday.

It was after the Billie Holiday show at the Barbican that she became stranded in London due to the volcanic ash cloud and did an impromptu performance at the club. She had such a great time that she vowed to come back! On Monday to Thursday she'll be appearing with her world class band (Craig Handy sax and reeds, Edsel Gomez Rentas piano, Kenny Davis bass and Shaney Forbes drums ) and on Friday in a very special concert recording with the BBC Big Band.

Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee

At least since its 1997 included Ella Fitzgerald tribute, the singer Dee Dee Bridgewater her place in the Olympus of Jazz goddesses secure. In about forty (not just stylistically) changing careers years ago by the Bridgewater talented young artist who debuted in 1970 as a singer of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra has risen to become one of the biggest stars of the jazz scene. For quite a few it is even the last true jazz diva, who may be in the same breath as the undisputed goddess to call this genre: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. At their most recent recording "Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee" Dee Dee Bridgewater is now honors the jazz legend Billie Holiday, who died half a century ago tragically early age of 44.

"With this album, I pay tribute to a singer, singers as it enabled me to build a career on my own kind of respect," said Bridgewater who 1986/87 in Paris and London in the triumphant solo theater production of "Lady Day" (based on the biography of the singer, "Lady Sings the Blues," was based) Billie Holiday embodied. The role brought a Dee Dee is not only a nomination for the Prix Laurence Olivier, but took them back after a few musical twists and turns to her jazz roots. "I wanted to 'give Eleanora Fagan' another touch: modern and festive, not somber and emotional. I wanted a happy-sounding album."

Attaches Bridgewater, on 27 May her 60th Birthday party is also on the statement that "Eleanora Fagan" is not a traditional tribute album with rundumerneuerten Holiday-pieces, but is much deeper. "Billie, it deserves to be performing their music in a different light," says Dee Dee, "and I laid it definitely is not a matter of imitating them."

The key to the refreshing approach to the music provided the Puerto Rican pianist Edsel Gómez, a member of Bridgewater's band for three years and wrote the arrangements of the twelve songs of this new album. The best examples for his Arrangierkünste include the "(with African polyrhythms charged rendition of" Lady Sings the Blues with the same time at Dee Dee's Mali-album "Red Earth" is angeknüpft), the harmonic revamped version of "All Of Me" and the gospel flavored "God Bless The Child". In his arrangements Gómez thought whatsoever to the individual personalities of the all-star band that Bridgewater had assembled for this recording: on the dynamic James Carter, who plays all the instruments of the saxophone and clarinet family, the agile bassist Christian McBride and the brilliant drummer Lewis Nash.

Billie Holiday is not the first monumental figure in the music world, which pays tribute to Dee Dee Bridgewater: Earlier recordings they already devoted Horace Silver ( "Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver, 1995), Ella Fitzgerald (the album" Dear Ella " , 1997, was awarded two Grammys) and Kurt Weill ( "This Is New", 2002).
http://www.jazzecho.de/aktuell/rezensionen/detail/article/89010/0/lady-dee-dee-ehrt-lady-day/

Shiny Stockings - Dee Dee Bridgewater & The Italian Big Band

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Dig These dueling Divas

Next week will be another busy one for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and among the visitors to our fair city will be two well-known female vocalists, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Ann Hampton Callaway.

Callaway will be in town on Friday night at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to sing at the kickoff event for the 2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, while Bridgewater will perform her tribute to Billie Holiday on Saturday at the Sheldon Concert Hall. While the two divas won't actually be dueling in person - yr. humble editor's fondness for alliterative headlines notwithstanding - we do have an opportunity to compare and contrast samples of their work right here.

Up top, you can see both women swinging, as Bridgewater sings "Shiny Stockings" with the Italian Big Band and Callaway revisits the famous Ella Fitzgerald arrangement of "How High The Moon" with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Down below, it's ballad time from the same two gigs, with Bridgewater crooning "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" and Callaway singing "Body and Soul".
http://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/stljn-saturday-video-showcase-dig-these.html

Dee Dee Bridgewater

FEW ENTERTAINERS have ever commanded such depth of artistry in every medium. Fewer still have been rewarded with Broadway’s coveted Tony Award (Best Featured Actress in a Musical – The Wiz), nominated for the London theater’s West End equivalent, the Laurence Oliver Award (Best Actress in a Musical – Lady Day), won two Grammy® Awards (1998’s Best Jazz Vocal Performance and Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal for "Cottontail" – Slide Hampton, arranger – "Dear Ella "), and France’s 1998 top honor Victoire de la Musique (Best Jazz Vocal Album).

DEE DEE CAPTURED THE HEARTS of audiences worldwide in The Wiz with her signature song, If You Believe. According to Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson, Dee Dee’s rendition "personified a generation and gave us all hope."
AS A SPARKLING AMBASSADOR FOR JAZZ, she bathed in its music before she could walk. Her mother played the greatest albums of Ella Fitzgerald, whose artistry provided an inspiration for Dee Dee throughout her career. Her father was a trumpeter who taught music – to Booker Little, Charles Lloyd and George Coleman, among others. It is the kind of background that leaves its mark on an adolescent, especially one who appeared solo and with a trio as soon as she was able. Dee Dee’s other vocation, that of globetrotter, reared its head when she toured the Soviet Union in 1969 with the University of Illinois Big Band. A year later, she followed her then husband, Cecil Bridgewater, to New York.

DEE DEE MADE HER PHENOMENAL NEW YORK DEBUT in 1970 as the lead vocalist for the band led by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, one of the premier jazz orchestras of the time. These New York years marked an early career in concerts and on recordings with such giants as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach and Roland Kirk, and rich experiences with Norman Connors, Stanley Clarke and Frank Foster’s "Loud Minority."
DEE DEE DOESN’T CARE MUCH FOR LABELS, and in 1974 she jumped at the chance to act and sing on Broadway where her voice, beauty and stage presence won her great success and a Tony Award for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz. This began a long line of awards and accolades as well as opportunities to work in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Paris and in London where she garnered the coveted “Laurence Olivier” Award nomination as Best Actress for her tour de force portrayal of jazz legend Billie Holiday in Stephen Stahl’s Lady Day. Performing the lead in equally demanding acting/singing roles as Sophisticated Ladies, Cosmopolitan Greetings, Black Ballad, Carmen Jazz and the musical Cabaret (the first black actress to star as Sally Bowles), she secured her reputation as a consummate entertainer.

NAMED AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS’ FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO) in October 1999, Dee Dee joined the battle against world hunger. Appealing for international solidarity to finance global grass-roots projects, the FAO’s Ambassadors aid in developing self-reliance in long-term conservation and management of sustainable agriculture, rural development and the conservation and management of natural resources.
TAKING OVER THE REIGNS OF JAZZSET FROM THE ILLUSTRIOUS BRANFORD MARSALIS, Dee Dee continues to bring her message to listeners. NPR's JazzSet© with Dee Dee Bridgewater is the jazz lover's ears and eyes on the world of live music. It presents today's best jazz artists in performance on stages around the world, taking listeners to Puerto Rico and Cuba, as well as Marciac in the French countryside and across the North American continent from Montreal to Monterey.
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Short Dee Dee Bridgewater, NPR Biography

Born in Memphis and raised in the Midwest, host Dee Dee Bridgewater moved to New York and – as Glinda the Witch in The Wiz on Broadway – won a 1975 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. Monday nights, she sang jazz with the popular Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra downtown at the Village Vanguard. Her LP's from that era include Dee Dee Bridgewater, Just Family, and Bad for Me, about which a consumer reviewer wrote thirty years later, "This upbeat disco album encapsulates all that was right about the Disco Era."
In the 1980s, Bridgewater settled in Paris to perform in Sophisticated Ladies and Lady Day, a one-woman portrayal of Billie Holiday in French, which earned her a Sir Laurence Olivier Award nomination.

In 1995, her self-produced CD Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver brought Bridgewater's voice back to the United States. Dear Ella, dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald, won two Grammy Awards in 1998. Subsequently, Bridgewater has produced This Is New with music of Kurt Weill, and J'ai Deux Amours/Two Loves Have I. Her current self-produced, Grammy-nominated album, Red Earth – A Malian Journey, features Bridgewater with her trio, guest vocalists and a balaphon/kora/flute/percussion/vocal ensemble from the small west African nation she embraces as her ancestral home.

Bridgewater became the host of JazzSet in October 2001, on the retirement of the original host, saxophonist Branford Marsalis.
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