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Memphis ... Yes, I'm Ready

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Vocal Jazz - Released September 15, 2017 | Okeh - Sony Masterworks

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Back to square one for Denise Eileen Garrett a.k.a. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Memphis! The very city where she was born on the May 27th, 1950. The Frenchiest American singer releases here a tribute to one of the United States’ most musical city. A city she left with her parents at three old to move to industrial Flint, in Michigan. But her career proves that those three years were enough to shape the rest. Recorded in the famous Royal Studios in Memphis, and produced by Kirk Whalum and Lawrence Mitchell (grandson of Hi Records’ Willie Mitchell), the album gathers together carefully selected local gems of soul and blues. Classics interpreted for instance by Otis Redding (Try A Little Tenderness), B.B. King (The Thrill Is Gone), Soul Children (The Sweeter He Is written by Isaac Hayes and Dave Porter), Elvis Presley (Don’t Be Cruel and Hound Dog), Carla Thomas (B-A-B-Y also by the Hayes/Porter duo) and Al Green (I Can't Get Next To You written by Barrett Strong), to which Dee Dee Bridgewater gives her trademark and immensely enjoyable boosts. After celebrating New Orleans in Dee Dee’s Feathers, here comes another tribute, equally classy, perhaps groovier and with more dancing, but which demonstrates that everything her voice touches usually turns to gold. © CM/Qobuz
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Afro Blue

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released January 1, 1974 | Mr Bongo

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What a Wonderful World

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released July 17, 2015 | Okeh

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Prelude to a Kiss – The Duke Ellington Album

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Classical - Released January 1, 1996 | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

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This release is more properly identified as a various artists compilation, which includes the pop sounds of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Most of the orchestrations and arrangements are pleasant, even if they're not blatantly original. Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson is superb on "Mood Indigo" and the exotic "Fleurette Africaine." The orchestra does a fine job with the rarely heard suite "Night Creature." Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater shines frequently; backed by a superb quartet including Wynton Marsalis, she delivers a delightful cover of "I'm Beginning To See The Light." But it is her hypnotic, chanting introduction, backed by Middle Eastern percussion and Steve Turre's conch shells, that gives this release an occasional freshness usually lacking in similar Ellington tributes.© Ken Dryden /TiVo
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Memphis ...Yes, I'm Ready

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released September 15, 2017 | Okeh - Sony Masterworks

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Back to square one for Denise Eileen Garrett a.k.a. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Memphis! The very city where she was born on the May 27th, 1950. The Frenchiest American singer releases here a tribute to one of the United States’ most musical city. A city she left with her parents at three old to move to industrial Flint, in Michigan. But her career proves that those three years were enough to shape the rest. Recorded in the famous Royal Studios in Memphis, and produced by Kirk Whalum and Lawrence Mitchell (grandson of Hi Records’ Willie Mitchell), the album gathers together carefully selected local gems of soul and blues. Classics interpreted for instance by Otis Redding (Try A Little Tenderness), B.B. King (The Thrill Is Gone), Soul Children (The Sweeter He Is written by Isaac Hayes and Dave Porter), Elvis Presley (Don’t Be Cruel and Hound Dog), Carla Thomas (B-A-B-Y also by the Hayes/Porter duo) and Al Green (I Can't Get Next To You written by Barrett Strong), to which Dee Dee Bridgewater gives her trademark and immensely enjoyable boosts. After celebrating New Orleans in Dee Dee’s Feathers, here comes another tribute, equally classy, perhaps groovier and with more dancing, but which demonstrates that everything her voice touches usually turns to gold. © CM/Qobuz

Live at Yoshi's

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released February 15, 2000 | Universal Music Mexico

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13 years after her prior in-performance release Live in Paris, Bridgewater has not so much matured or refined her approach as she has gotten bolder. This CD was recorded on what would have been her idol Ella Fitzgerald's 80th birthday weekend at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. She scats in the style of Fitzgerald on most of these numbers -- not quite in the higher range, but comfortably in the middle -- while also displaying some of Sarah Vaughan's more deeply soulful traits. It's a combination of the two, with a little bawdiness for spice, that has made Bridgewater a prime purveyor of excitable jazz vocalizing these days. The set begins with the Charlie Shavers evergreen "Undecided," as the singer stops and starts the band on several dimes for the initial lines, exacting choppy phrases and similar scatting á la Fitzgerald on the bridge. In an Ella-cum-Betty Carter mode for "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," Bridgewater waxes frantically on the effect of an obviously full moon turning her into a scatting monster during two different uptempos. Then she brings out the Sarah Vaughan nightshade for "Midnight Sun," a memorable rendition especially buoyed by Eliez, with rubato intro of bass and piano underneath cat-walking, stealth phrases, stunningly set between the bass and piano lock-step with the vocal line. Then they dive headlong into "Love for Sale" for just over 14 minutes, and more delicate vocals lead to a scat much faster than the band's rhythm. The finale "Cotton Tail" is a three-ring exercise in scat. This program comprises a side of Bridgewater's well-known vehicles used for years as a springboard for her formidable talent -- unabashed and unafraid. © Michael G. Nastos /TiVo
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Dee Dee's Feathers

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released April 17, 2015 | Okeh

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Just Family

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Pop - Released January 1, 1977 | Rhino - Elektra

Neither 1977's Just Family nor 1979's Bad for Me, the two albums combined for this Collectables release, can be considered Dee Dee Bridgewater's best work, but fans of mature, mid- to late-'70s R&B should find them moderately appealing. Though Bridgewater wouldn't really hit her stride until her return to jazz in the '90s, she was more than competent when it came to fitting in with the likes of Phyllis Hyman, Patrice Rushen, Minnie Riperton, and Patti Austin. Confoundingly, her only two chart hits -- the title tracks -- are contained here, while "Children Are the Spirit (Of the World)," "Sweet Rain," "Open Up Your Eyes," and "Don't Say It (If You Don't Mean It)" would have to be included on an anthology of her first five albums. Just Family and Bad for Me would have benefited from a track or two with the contagious energy heard on her version of Allen Toussaint's "It Ain't Easy" (found on her self-titled 1976 album for Atlantic), along with a couple sweeter ballads.© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Prelude To A Kiss - The Duke Ellington Album

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Classical - Released January 1, 1996 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

This release is more properly identified as a various artists compilation, which includes the pop sounds of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Most of the orchestrations and arrangements are pleasant, even if they're not blatantly original. Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson is superb on "Mood Indigo" and the exotic "Fleurette Africaine." The orchestra does a fine job with the rarely heard suite "Night Creature." Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater shines frequently; backed by a superb quartet including Wynton Marsalis, she delivers a delightful cover of "I'm Beginning To See The Light." But it is her hypnotic, chanting introduction, backed by Middle Eastern percussion and Steve Turre's conch shells, that gives this release an occasional freshness usually lacking in similar Ellington tributes.© Ken Dryden /TiVo
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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released January 1, 1976 | Rhino Atlantic

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Hound Dog

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released July 14, 2017 | Okeh - Sony Masterworks

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Pop - Released January 1, 1980 | Rhino Atlantic

Live In Paris

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released January 1, 1986 | Universal Music Mexico

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After showing early potential, Dee Dee Bridgewater wandered into commercialism and then moved to France. This 1986 recording started her artistic "comeback" and showed that she had developed and matured during her years in Europe. Backed by her regular French rhythm section, Bridgewater is in spirited and creative form on such numbers as "All Blues," "There Is No Greater Love," and "Cherokee," among others. Her arrival as a major singer in the years since this set has been a welcome event. Recommended.© Scott Yanow /TiVo
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I Can't Stand the Rain

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released September 1, 2017 | Okeh - Sony Masterworks

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In Montreux

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released July 18, 1990 | Universal Music Group International

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Dee Dee Bridgewater's move to France awhile back has resulted in her having a relatively low profile in jazz. This excellent live set should help restore her reputation. Whether it be a three-song Horace Silver medley, the warhorse "All of Me," Jobim's "How Insensitive," "Night in Tunisia" or the rarely performed "Strange Fruit," Bridgewater (who is backed by a French rhythm section) is in top form, singing with swing and sensitivity. © Scott Yanow /TiVo

Dee Dee's Diamonds

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Miscellaneous - Released September 18, 2020 | Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

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Bad For Me

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Pop - Released January 1, 1979 | Rhino - Elektra

Victim of Love

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released January 1, 1989 | Universal Music Group International

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Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family/Bad For Me/Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Miscellaneous - Released March 13, 2020 | Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

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Why (Am I Treated So Bad)

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz - Released August 11, 2017 | Okeh - Sony Masterworks

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