Jazzem Up host Cres ONeal chats with three-time Grammy-winning diva—and UN Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization—Dee Dee Bridgewater about her appearance at the 2011 Luanda International Jazz Festival in the Angolan capital city of Luanda. "The people who came to this three-day event are the upper eschelon, so their response was wonderful, considering that jazz is a foreign music to them. Its probably like world music is to us. I was thrilled to Dee Dee Bridgewater | Jazz...Read Full Story
Midnight Sun ~ Dee Dee Bridgewater Release Date: August 23, 2011 Buy new: $13.64 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Jazz list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description
MIDNIGHT SUN, a collection of love songs from throughout Grammy and Tony Award-winning artist Dee Dee Bridgewater's critically acclaimed career, is set for release on DDB Records/Emarcy (Universal) on August 23rd. A love letter of sorts, Midnight Sun, produced by Tulani Bridgewater...Read Full Story
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This week marks the UK live debut of SoCal’s Dum Dum Girls, the solo project turned all-girl outfit fronted by Kristin Gundred – or Dee Dee as she’d prefer to be known – and “of course!” she’s excited to be hitting our shores, despite an earlier propensity for crippling stage fright. The moniker, which she adopted from the beginning of the Dum Dum Girls journey, is part of a semi-persona created to protect a rather shy individual from the on-display world of musicianship and ever-peering...Read Full Story
If anyone is paying close enough attention to the entertainment world, they might see a bit of a trend: black women in the spotlight. Beyoncé's new single ' Run The World (Girls)' is all about women taking over ... basically everything. Queen Latifah is set to executive produce a newly scripted series on VH1 called ' Single Ladies' starring Lisa Raye and Stacey Dash . And Maya Rudolph , late of 'Saturday Night Live,' is getting shine with her starring role in the box-office hit 'Bridesmaids...Read Full Story
Included in that list of "friends" are some of the most prominent female jazz artists of the last few decades, including, besides Hendryx: Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila E., Cassandra Wilson, Geri Allen and more.
It takes something pretty outrageous to upstage the marvelous voice of Dee Dee Bridgewater, but the jazz singer with the shaved head managed to pull it off on Saturday evening in concert at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall simply by wearing a pair of over ...
TROY — Dee Dee Bridgewater is coming full circle. In the 1980s, she performed “Lady Day,” a one-woman play that paid tribute to Billie Holiday. A year ago, she released “Eleanora Fagan 1915-1959: To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Bridgewater.”
When singer Dee Dee Bridgewater pays homage to another great vocalist, she doesn't mimic the object of her attention – she subsumes it. So even though there were subtle traces of Billie Holiday to be heard in Bridgewater's salute to the jazz ...
TROY — Dee Dee Bridgewater is coming full circle. In the 1980s, she performed “Lady Day,” a one-woman play that paid tribute to Billie Holiday. A year ago, she released “Eleanora Fagan 1915-1959: To Billie With Love From Dee Dee ...
Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Tony Award Winner and Host of NPR 's Syndicated Radio show "JazzSet with ...
In the 36 pages of the New York City Jazz Club Bible, there are a lot of mentions under "RIP". Among them are the Cajun, which shut its doors after 28 years of offering everything from ragtime to 1950s pop (performed by the wonderfully named Johnny ...