It was a gig that she loved—and which provided some humorous moments…. Used by permission of Ray Henderson Music Co. Inc. and BMG Firefly [ASCAP]. This sold-out gig at Ronnie Scott's was one of those rare, did-that-really-happen-or-am-I-dreaming evenings where performer and audience reciprocally move into some kind of magical, harmonious alignment. And she’s also produced all her own recordings since 1993, and has had her own label since 2006. Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. They were 13 of the best years I ever had. Betty led her own bands. I—I will always remember that. My career has been as much about kind of being in the right place at the right time, or just, you know, these happenstance meetings leading to a situation. By Andrew Gans. One of the best jazz singers of her generation, Dee Dee Bridgewater had to move to France to find herself. Chihiro Yamanaka Trio On "Jazzset With Dee Dee Bridgewater" Photos. I was on these big billboards and stuff. Dee Dee Bridgewater: (Gasps.) I took it from female performers who were very physical. Because I went with an open spirit, and I’m trying to get to my highest spiritual level in this lifetime, because I have no intention of coming back. I was acting more at the time that I made the move to France. Dee Dee Bridgewater: We—we—well, let’s see. They were sitting in the living room of—of our little modest house in—in Flint, Michigan. She started out singing in school talent shows and with local jazz bands. On this IMDbrief - presented by Acura - we explain how an online premiere resulted in a multi-million dollar payday and the Sundance 2021 must-see movies to add to your Watchlist. What—what was your thoughts about this? My father, whose name is Matthew Garrett, taught a lot of jazz musicians that we listen to today. Number two, always enunciate so that people understand what you are saying. And I was the poster for Sophisticated Ladies in France, and it was a picture of me coming down the staircase. Josephine Reed: How did you bring the musicians together? Each week she would take listeners to concert halls, clubs, and festivals around the country so they could hear great jazz performances. She started out singing in school talent shows and with local jazz bands. Dee Dee Bridgewater To Star In Lady Day The Musical. I’m Josephine Reed. Everyone was always ready for that element of surprise, and where singers would say, “Come on down and sit in with me.” I mean, it was literally come on down and sit in with me. I intend to make the National Endowment for the Arts very proud, so I’m very very honored. Josephine Reed: To that radio station I’ve been listening to! So, entertainment is very important to me. For 13 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's award-winning show, JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She eventually took the play to London, but she opened it in Paris—performing in French…. I was starring in Sophisticated Ladies. Everything that I know about music, I learned from Thad Jones, and I learned from being in that band. When the international touring company of Sophisticated Ladies (in which she was the female lead performer) ended in Paris, France, Bridgewater decided to stay. Working with musicians to get them to understand that it’s really okay to add that element, and for them to see the difference in responses that one gets if one is entertaining and performing at the same time, as well as just standing there. I just knew what I wanted to do. Bridgewater continues to tour nationally and internationally. We were taken down a little alley and—and they did a special knock, and you—remember the old doors, the speakeasy doors? I didn’t understand that. And there was a lot of lifting up of—of the young musicians. Like, “You were an on-air DJ.” “Oh, yeah. Phineas Newborn was a student of his, Booker Little, Frank Strozier. The Greatest Female Jazz Vocalists of Today! Dee Dee Bridgewater: That was my school. You have to listen to musicians.” And I just wonder if there’s a connection. Dee Dee Bridgewater is a daring performer of great depth whose singing talents have earned her three Grammy Awards as well as a Tony Award. On the album, I was able to bring it together. It was a period where you expected people to sit in on concerts when you go to a concert. By Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield, The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (Official Music Video) 27. We were two basements down, and it was just all this music that was played. And my dream was to come down some big winding staircase with all the gorgeous men on either side, and you know, go—break into some dance and song number at the bottom of the stairwell and be lifted up in the air by—by the male dancers. Josephine Reed: You’ve had time now to process being named a 2017 NEA Jazz Master—so tell me what the award means for you? And that I was going to buy them a house and a car. That was my whole goal. Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver, Verve, 1994Dear Ella, Verve, 1997Red Earth: A Malian Journey, DDB Records/Universal, 2006Eleanora Fagan: To Billie with Love from Dee Dee, DDB Records/Emarcy, 2009Dee Dee’s Feathers, DDB Records/ Sony Masterworks, 2014, Excerpt of “Bye Bye Black Bird” composed by Mort Dixon and Ray Henderson and performed live by Dee Dee Bridgewater with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. CD: $11.98. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I’ve never had any formal music training. Motown started when I was 12, in 1962, so, all of us who loved music, we were aspiring to be Motown artists. In 1976 - 1980 she released some high class disco soul albums, accompanied by top session musicicans. Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer. And the bands would be tight, and the music would be great, but they also entertained. Dee Dee Bridgewater: It was borne out of my search for my African ancestry. So I will walk with Ella, probably for the rest of my life, which isn’t a bad thing at all. So, I loved R&B. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I’m a frustrated musician. If you can work in—in Paris, I suggest you stay there for a while.” So, that’s how that happened. They moved to New York City where she found her first professional gig with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra as lead vocalist. And so, I would put the bed in the—in the—in the coat closet, and the lady that checked the coats would watch my baby (laughing).That’s terrible. So, I decided to stay when the show ended, because I wasn’t getting any work as an actress in the States. Dee Dee Bridgewater is a multi-talented performer who will not be put into a box. Dee Dee Bridgewater was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Marion and Matthew Garrett. And I remember we didn’t have enough money for a babysitter, so I’d take Tulani in her little—I had bought this stroller, and you could lift the bed out. So, he brought everybody together, and then we all kind of worked out, you know, the arrangements. It was crazy. Josephine Reed: That’s 2017 NEA Jazz Master, Dee Dee Bridgewater. Dee Dee Bridgewater has a rich voice—like honey— with great range, intonation and pitch, and she’s one of the few scat singers left standing. Backed by a small group that includes an accordionist, Dee Dee sings several well known songs popular in France. Dee Dee Bridgewater: It was very difficult in the studio to get the two sides to come together, musically speaking. Josephine Reed: Red Earth, that’s such a significant album for you, and you recorded it in Mali. Her portrayal of Glinda the Good Witch in the Broadway musical The Wiz garnered her a Tony Award in 1975. And then, the fourth thing he said to me is learn your songs inside out, so you don’t have to think about what you’re singing. If you can’t be in DC—you can join the party anyway—we’re streaming it live. And that lasted for 13 years, 13 wonderful years. It was her second tribute album to a great jazz singer—the first was Dear Ella, honoring of course, Ella Fitzgerald, and both albums won Grammy Awards…. So, George Coleman was a student of his, Harold Mabern, Charles Lloyd. I’d had this tuxedo suit made, and running up on stage, and getting the award, and coming off and promptly fainting. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I grew up on R&B. And I guess he heard that. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Well, I think there is a connection, because I also can imitate voices. Because when WDIA decided that they were going to concentrate on black music programming, the people who were running that radio station decided that they would hire for on-air DJs, young musicians, and one of them was my father. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I auditioned for this new Broadway musical that they had open casting for called, The Wiz. So, I loved R&B. Bridgewater has produced all her recordings since 1993 and has had her own label, DDB Records, since 2006. She was welcomed back enthusiastically by audiences and critics alike. In 1970, she wed her first husband, trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater. It was a beautiful show because I really tried to stay true to, you know, my jazz thing. Josephine Reed: Did you know, right from the beginning, that’s what you wanted to do? In addition, her commanding personality made her a natural for hosting the award-winning National Public Radio syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater from 2001 to 2014. The festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. and the concert is free and open to the public. They loved to entertain. She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Vinyl: $19.99. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I played Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, and that is what I won my Tony Award with. For some reason, I could understand the rhythms, the—the West African rhythms, and I could—I could hear how it flowed into the jazz thing. My mom loved jazz singers, so when I was a baby, she swore—swore that I could scat before I could speak, because she was a huge fan of Ella Fitzgerald. I’ve just been trying to be true to what I felt God put me on this earth for. To fast-forward, I am now in Memphis, recording an album of those songs that I used to listen to. So, it inhibited me as an actress in terms of my being able to improvise. This was what year? She performed in Michigan during the '60s and toured the Soviet Union in 1969 with the University of Illinois Big Band. But my—my dream with my father was to, you know, have the father-daughter family act. Bridgewater's career then took off and she soon performed and recorded with some of the giants of the music: Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, and Clark Terry. TITLE: Self Titled . And she said by the time I was, like, 10 months, I would stand on the side of my crib and hold the rail and try to scat with Ella Fitzgerald. For the National Endowment for the Arts, I'm Josephine Reed. Jo Reed: I want to hear about how you started working with Thad Jones and—. I—I could not exist, had it not been for these women opening the doors that they did. I would always sit alone. And his on-air moniker was Matt the Platter Cat. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I grew up on R&B. It was that period when everyone supported everyone. Dee Dee Bridgewater on Studying Betty Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater's Breakthrough Audition. I would go to any performance that she would have in New York City. MLB American League Tickets. And then, at 14, I announced to them that I was going to live in Paris, France. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I loved acting. Josephine Reed: Yeah, you’re three for three there. Josephine Reed: That is 2017 NEA Jazz Master, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced at the National Endowment for the Arts. Dee Dee Bridgewater: We had fun. I had never seen someone with that much freedom. As we were part of a university coming to really the Soviet Union, it was a very unsettling experience. Number three, always sing your melody first. So all of these things have come to pass. They relocated to Flint, Michigan, where Dee Dee lived until completing high school. I was her shadow. De Caunes/Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle Part Ailleurs 2... suite et fin. Dee Dee Bridgewater is a daring performer of great depth whose singing talents have earned her three Grammy Awards as well as a Tony Award. Go to arts.gov for details. Josephine Reed: You also have been a singer who identifies herself as a musician. May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. Excerpt of “Mack the Knife, composed by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Memphis ...Yes, I'm Re… Dee Dee Bridgewater. Those are the ones that I’m pulling up at the moment. CATALOG #: SD 18188 . So, I’ve uncovered a lot about my father that I didn’t know. Film & TV News Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, More Featured in PBS Concert Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald, Premiering December 15. Every year, I do at least one Ella Fitzgerald concert. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I fainted. AL Central. So, I sat in with the likes of Carmen McRae, Blossom Dearie—Betty Carter would not let me sit in—and some lesser-known singers. $107.15. They picked a singer at the end of almost a full afternoon, and I thought I can sing better than her. Dee Dee Bridgewater: And so, that’s how I started. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2006 CD release of "Dee Dee Bridgewater" on Discogs. I am extremely proud to join the ranks of the women and the men. Dee Dee Right at Home With French Songs J'Ai Deux Amours buy CD music Dee Dee has done quite well in France and this album is a real treat. I was really proud of JazzSet. It was wonderful. And I remember—you know, waltzing down the hallway and walking into the living room––I don’t even remember what they were doing—and saying, “When I grow up,” I crossed my arms, “When I grow up, I’m going to be a well-respected, internationally known jazz singer.” And I—I said something to them about I—and I was going to be respected by the musicians. VINYL Condition: VG++ . I’ve fought long and hard to preserve my musical integrity, to garner respect in this male-dominated jazz world. It was an AM station, of course, and it was called—it is, still—it still exists—WDIA. Josephine Reed: Now, you’re in New York now, what is it, like ’70? I recorded it in 2007. I—I think notes look cute on paper. Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, Grammy and Tony Award-winning Jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater has ascended to the upper echelon of vocalists, putting her unique spin on standards, as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics. I did not want to be distracted. We were really taken in by the older musicians, so there was this mentoring that happened. While attending the University of Illinois, she joined the University of Illinois jazz band for a U.S. State Department tour of the Soviet Union in 1969. And when I come back in, and the same with the big band. We had meetings with musicians that were clandestine, that were arranged by the embassy. Well, besides getting hired into the Horace Silver Quintet, my honeymoon was spent on the road with Cecil playing with Horace Silver. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Betty Carter let me be—I called myself her puppy dog. And then I found out, doing a television interview with Charles Lloyd last year in Switzerland, he and my father had a band together. When I decided I wanted to sing jazz, and I always thought that scatting was a prerequisite to being a jazz singer, and so, that came from, I think, you know, my mother listening to Ella Fitzgerald. BRIDGEWATER,DEE DEE. The word polymath comes to mind. Chicago White Sox; Cleveland Indians; Detroit Tigers Where the—the little sliding window would open, and they’d see, and then they’d let you in. Find event and ticket information. Bridgewater was born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Flint, Michigan, in a music-filled home. I had gone to Paris with Sophisticated Ladies. And my theatrical agent said, “There is no work for black actresses. Josephine Reed: You are a musician. And I was able to work as a singer. And Clark was a ham. Born on 27.05.1950 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A. She grew up in Flint, Michigan. 6. Her mother introduced her to Ella Fitzgerald’s music, which became an inspiration to Bridgewater throughout her career, and her father was a jazz trumpeter who taught music at Memphis' famed Manassas High School. Now Clark Terry was the first musician that took me out of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. bad for me DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER. Josephine Reed: Dee Dee may have been on to something—because within a year of moving to France, she was cast as Billie Holiday in the one-woman show, Lady Day. They relocated to Flint, Michigan, where Dee Dee lived until completing high school. DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER: Self Titled LP ATLANTIC RECORDS SD18188 US 1976 VG++. Josephine Reed: What was that like? ARTIST: Dee Dee Bridgwater. Dee Dee's second self-titled album (fourth American album overall) marks an end to the singer's comercially-oriented r&b/jazz lite fusion period. “I never dreamed I would one day be named an NEA Jazz Master, as so few women hold this distinction. Josephine Reed: It must have been, though, such a time for you. Dee Dee Bridgewater was born in Memphis, Tennessee to a family with deep musical roots….. Dee Dee Bridgewater: You know, the—the actual music and I think my ability to sing comes from my father’s side of the family. Dee Dee Bridgewater: And I did translations of these griot songs. I was always able to scat. His—his brother, my uncle, who died when he was 34, had an amazing baritone voice. Dee Dee Bridgewater: I remember telling my mom and dad when I was seven years old. Want to see Dee Dee Bridgewater in concert? They relocated to Flint, Michigan, where Dee Dee lived until completing high school. My father is very close-lipped, and so, I had to uncover all of this, to which, you know, when I’d call him, he’d say, “Oh, yeah.” And I was like, “Do you have any other information to share with me?” “Oh no, that’s—that’s good.” So this has been my life with my dad.

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