Eleanora Fagan: To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater

"Sexy, spunky, sublime, inspired. That's the alliterative wrap on Dee Dee Bridgewater that fully encompasses her contagious appeal as a performer as well as her intrepid approach in fashioning her recordings. She's a risk taker who's perpetually looking around the next bend but with full vision in her rear view mirror of where she's already traveled — from the familiar red earth of Tennessee to the exotic red earth of Mali. ... Dee Dee has consistently embraced the jazz spirit that teems with vibrancy and freedom. 'I want to move forward, just as I've done with each of my albums,' she says. 'To not go backwards, but progress. Constantly.' So, with one foot firm in the past and the other sprinting ahead into the future, for her new album Dee Dee decided to reacquaint herself with an iconic figure of the jazz legacy: Billie Holiday. While she had already paid homage to such legendary musical figures as Horace Silver, Ella Fitzgerald and Kurt Weill ... her musical relationship with Billie went far deeper" (CD notes by Dan Ouellette).
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