Love and Peace- A Tribute to Horace Silver

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Not bad but Dee Dee can do much better
I don't have a general problem with Bridgewater's singing (actually, she's one of my favorite jazz singers), and I've heard her in concerts really digging in Horace Silver's materials. However, as many other jazz giants, she also has tastes that reach beyond the field of jazz and this is why I find this album somewhat bland... Rhythmically and in sound inflections this album at times even sounds somewhat like elevator jazz... It is still not a bad peace of music and it might have expanded her and Silver's audience a bit, but I still prefer certain other Bridgewater's performances: Live at Yoshi'sLive in ParisIn Montreux

Solid performances
Dee Dee's vocal style is clean and infectious. These are small group recordings, 8-9 excellent musicians, including Horace Silver on two tracks and Jimmy Smith on two others.

Jazz Vocal unlike any other
This is a wonderful album if you want to hear a jazz musican doinmg vocalizations, not merely a singer fronting a jazz band. I know it is sacreligious to say so but her scat is better than Ella's(to me) because it caried more of an emotional weight than Ella. Every song is terrific but I love her treatment of Song for my Father(covered a million times by others) Not for the non-jazz listener I think

Excellent Album
This is an excellent album, not only because Dee Dee is a fantastic singer, but also because she was able to provide some of the first vocal versions of many of the tunes. Nica's Dream is amazing with vocal precision most singers fall short of delivering. Lonely Woman is haunting and melodic. Overall, this is a fantastic album.

Not a bit of freshness to Horace Silver's masterwork!
Musical projects based on singing lyrics to jazz standards are not to my taste. Just because they usually do not add a least bit of motivation and artistry to the original instrumentals. Horace Silver is a particular victim of that situation. In other words, I do not know any vocalized effort on his extraordinary work worth listening to except Mark Murphy's "That's how I love the blues" ... All Blue Note albums by Horace Silver - the great composer, pianist and combo leader - ... I'd rather have them all. Make your choice.