★★★★★
With albums dedicated to the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Horace Silver and Kurt Weill already in the pocket, Dee Dee Bridgewater decided to return to her role of America's most famous jazz lady, Billie Holiday. Having walked in the footsteps of the troubled Lady Day before - Bridgewater starred in a successful musical of Holiday in the eighties - she felt the time was right for a reunion with her favourite musical ghost...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
This is the most exciting release by Dee Dee Bridgewater ever to grace my collection. The singer is at her very best on this live session recorded at Yoshi's in Oakland on April 25,1998. Clearly, this recording was scheduled to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Ella Fitzgerald's birth. The audience responds enthusiastically to Dee Dee and her trio. Ms. Bridgewater is in great spirits and jokes with the crowd and the musicians. Her performance is awesome...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Track Listing: Undecided; Slow Boat To China; Stairway To The Stars; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Sex Machine; Midnight Sun; Cherokee; Love For Sale; Cottontail. Personnel: Dee Dee Bridgewater: vocals; Thomas Bramerie: bass; Ali Jackson: drums; Thierry Eliez: piano, organ. Style: Straightahead/Mainstream Power. Dee Dee Bridgewater is as formidable a vocalist as anyone singing. She is the Jackie Joiner of jazz vocalists...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: J'ai Deux Amours; La Mer (Beyond The Sea); Ne Me Quitte Pas; Mon Homme (My Man); EtMaintenant; Que Reste-t-Il De Nos Amours; Dansez Sur Moi (Girl Talk); La Belle Vie (TheGood Life); Avec Le Temps; La Vie En Rose; Les Feuilles Mortes. Personnel: Dee Dee Bridgewater: vocals; Louis Winsberg: guitar; Marc Berthoumieux: accordion; Ira Coleman: bass; Minino Garay: drums, percussion...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain with drugs and song lyrics on her way to self destruction in 1959. In her greatness, Billie was as devastating and as devastated as a summer with no water...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Next Friday at the Barbican, American jazz diva Dee Dee Bridgewater (pictured below) revives her 1980s Billie Holiday tribute show, Lady Day. This album, also featuring Holiday's repertoire, suggests a more contemporary feel, helped by terrific performances from saxophonist James Carter and bassist Christian McBride. Bridgewater is a larger-than-life performer (she received an Olivier award nomination as an actor for Lady Day), so understatement and insinuation are not her natural allies...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-09
★★★★★
How do you craft an authentically French collection of jazz-tinged pop standards yet ensure it's palatable for English-speaking listeners? Follow Dee Dee Bridgewater's blueprint. Yes, the majority of this cunning paean to Bridgewater's momentous affection for France, Frenchmen and generally all things Gallic is sung en Francais, with an occasional English verse thrown in for good measure...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Dee Dee Bridgewater has been so close for so long. The talent and the potential were there from her early outings with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, and even in some of her pop flirtations (viz. The Wiz). But from her base of operations outside Paris, she has embarked on a series of tribute albums reminiscent in their way of the "Songbook" recordings that finally secured Ella Fitzgerald's place in the hearts of a broader segment of American dreamers...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
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