Dee Dee Bridgewater Albums

Over the course of a multifaceted career that has spanned four decades, Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top tier of today's jazz vocalists, putting her own unique spin on standards as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics. For her latest recording, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, Bridgewater honors an iconic jazz figure, Billie Holiday, who died tragically at the age of 44 a half-century.

Digitally remastered edition of this 1992 album from the acclaimed Jazz vocalist. Emarcy. 2010.

MIDNIGHT SUN, a collection of love songs from throughout Grammy and Tony Award winning jazz/pop songstress Dee Dee Bridgewater's critically-acclaimed four decade career Midnight Sun is the ultimate mixed tape, traversing landscapes of melodically mournful tales of love lost, heartrending ballads about forever after and sultry promises of bliss.

Digitally remastered edition of this 2000 album from the acclaimed Jazz vocalist. Emarcy. 2009.

Dee Dee Bridgewater performs 13 of Horace Silver's songs on her very well-conceived release. On most selections she is accompanied by her French quintet, but there are also two guest appearances apiece for organist Jimmy Smith and pianist Silver ("Nice's Dream" and "Song for My Father"). Bridgewater uplifts Silver's lyrics, proves to be in prime form, and swings up a storm. Other high points include "Filthy McNasty," "Doodlin'," and "Blowin' the Blues Away." A gem.

Digitally remastered edition of this 1986 album from the acclaimed Jazz vocalist. Emarcy. 2009.

Dee Dee Bridgewater is first and foremost a groundbreaker, an artist whose projects have traversed the musical kaleidoscope from traditional vocal jazz to searing scat interpretations. Unafraid and uninhibited, these attributes make her one of the most versatile and inspiring artist and producer of her generation. Drawing on a deep font of talent and inspiration, Bridgewater's 2007 project, Red Earth--A Malian Journey, is a journey both forward and back.

Melding Malian voices, music and traditional instruments with American Jazz vernacular and penning many of the lyrics, Bridgewater has crafted one of her most important musical statements to date. She explains, the album is "the culmination of my decision to find my African roots. It was an idea I first had when doing Horace Silver's music, which is so syncopated and rhythmic." The resulting Grammy®-nominated album Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver solidified her resolve to further investigate African music. With the death of Ella Fitzgerald in 1996 and Dee Dee's subsequent double Grammy® Award-winning tribute Dear Ella, the project was put on hold. Her ensuing albums, Live at Yoshi's, This is New, and J'ai Deux Amours, incorporated more global sounds and influences and yielded Grammy® nominations for two of the albums.

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Her 1997 tribute album Dear Ella won her the 1998 Grammy® Award For Best Jazz Vocal Album and a second Grammy for Best Arrangement for the song "Cottontail." It's a heartfelt, stunning tribute to the first lady of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald.

Brand new CD sealed in original shrink wrap.

Digitally remastered digipack special edition with new liner notes by leading jazz writers.