In Montreux

Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver	Dear Ella	Live at Yoshi's Dee Dee Bridgewater's Live at Yoshi's is more than just a glorious paean to the art of scat singing by one of its foremost practitioners. Impeccably recorded, Yoshi's is also that rare live recording that captures the excitement and spontaneity of a performance without sacrificin...	Red Earth 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 art...	This Is New This 12-song homage to German composer Kurt Weill exceeds even the excellence of Bridgewater's classic vocal tributes to Horace Silver and Ella Fitzgerald. The main reason is that Weill wrote for theater, and beyond being a singer, Bridgewater is a Tony Award-winning actress, an ...
Imagina: Songs of Brasil	Ask Me Again "After Nancy's death in 1995, many radio DJ's across the country kept her music alive by playing cuts from her CD's. But one DJ, Jonathan Schwartz, had access to a special private collection of unreleased recordings that Nancy had given him copies as gifts. Over the years, Jona...	Simply Natural	Live in Paris	Keeping Tradition

A great concert album
Amazing and swinging, Dee Dee Bridgewater really shines on the live albums I have heard so far! Competent enough in singing various jazz styles, here she even tackles Jobim's "How insensitive" (although it is not the peak performance of the album: she's perhaps too hot to handle Jobim's gentle touch). But her Horace Silver medley is, I believe, superior to her later album devoted the composer's works and, between that medley, "Just Friends", and "Night in Tunisia" it's hard for me to pick the favorite number. But, to be honest, I am a Dee Dee fan...

Terrific live album!
So many live albums sound like muffled, hard-to-hear, jumbled messes. But this one transports you there! You really feel like you're part of the crowd. What a great performer. If only I could see her for real! You should also check out "Live at Yoshi's" - another truly great disc!

Dee Dee Bridgewater and her band in harmony
Dee Dee Bridgewater and her excellent band capture the life experience of the fantastic Montreaux concert on this lovely album. Those who have seen the concert probably already have this album, if not, they should get it. For those who havn't seen the concert, this album can give a lovely glimpse at Dee Dee Bridgewaters incredible performing style. Even on this recording, you can feel her presence, her wonderful connection to the audience and her exquisite handling of the band. The band in turn is a blessing to Ms. Bridgewater's voice and energy, and is probably among the finest you can hear these days.