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Friday, July 22, 7:30pm Sponsored by Modrall Sperling
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 re-envisioning jazz classics. Few entertainers have commanded such depth of artistry in every medium as Bridgewater. As a jazz vocalist in the 1970’s, she performed with jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon and Max Roach, and later with Horace Silver, Terrence Blanchard and others. A two-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, she captured the hearts of audiences worldwide with her signature song, “If You Believe,” from The Wiz, and was also nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for her role as Billie Holiday in the stage production, Lady Day. Most recently, Bridgewater won a Grammy for her 2010 tribute album to Billie Holiday, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Bridgewater, of which she says, “this album is my way of paying my respect to a vocalist who made it possible for singers like me to carve out a career for ourselves.” Since 2001, Bridgewater has been the host of National Public Radio’s syndicated radio show, JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She was named Ambassador to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization in 1998, thereby joining the battle against world hunger. In 2007, Bridgewater released her “breathtaking and innovative new vision of jazz” on the album Red Earth, A Malian Journey, in which she melded Malian voices, music and traditional instruments with American jazz vernacular, penning many of the lyrics herself. Most recently, Bridgewater was part of The Mosaic Project, a new album produced by drummer and vocalist Terri Lyne Carrington, featuring a who’s who of female artists including Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, and Carmen Lundy. $50/$40/$30/$20. $5 discount Members & Students (No Member Passes) |
