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Verve ( August 06, 2002 ), Genre: Pop Vocal
Personnel: Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals); Daniele Scannapieco, Antonio Hart (alto saxophone, flute); Nicolas Folmer (trumpet); Denis Leloup (trombone); Juan Jose Mosalini (bandoneon); Thierry Eliez (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, background vocals); Louis Winsberg (guitar); Ira Coleman (bass); Andre Ceccarelli (drums); Minino Garay (percussion); Tulani Bridgewater Kowalski, China Moses (background vocals). Recorded at Plus XXX Studios, Paris, France between November 10-20, 2001. Includes liner notes by Bob Blumenthal. Dee Dee Bridgewater may be the first jazz singer to devote an entire release to the theater music of Kurt Weill. She's in great form, with arrangements for the most part by her ex-husband Cecil Bridgewater. "Bilbao Song" is quite novel, with the addition of exotic flamenco guitars and percussion and a guest appearance by Antonio Hart on flute, and her tender interpretation of "My Ship" is first rate. "Alabama Song" leans more toward outright blues, with a saucy vocal and churning Hammond B3 organ...
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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 announcer, and a noted humorist, all talents used to great effect here. Weill's best-known tragicomic character, Macheath, or "Mack the Knife," appears on the hidden track here, but Bridgewater also introduces others in "The Saga of Jenny" and "Bilbao Song." Only an accomplished stage actress, who also happens to be a great jazz singer, could suspend disbelief as she does in these absolutely enthralling tales of violence, sex, and greed. Many of Weill's songs are jazz standards, and Bridgewater puts definitive stamps on three of them--"Speak Low," an organ powered "This Is New," and an exquisite ballad reading of "My Ship." Bridgewater also broadens her sonic palette, as, for the first time for her, the guitar is prominent in many of the superb arrangements she uses. Sprinkled in also is a bit of world music, particularly Brazilian samba. --Mark Ruffin |
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