APR 27-30 | Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
Apr 27 - Apr 30, 2023
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
The duo will be recording these performances for a forthcoming live album!
A restless explorer who has collaborated with master musicians of Mali, interpreted the cabaret of Kurt Weill, and embraced the hard bop of Horace Silver, 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater is joined by GRAMMY-winning pianist Charlap for these intimate duo performances featuring jazz classics and songbook standards.
Since she first gained recognition in the early 1970s with the great Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Bridgewater has thrived wherever she’s landed, from Broadway, where she earned a Tony Award for her work in the original production of The Wiz, to Paris, where she spent more than a decade as France’s greatest champion of jazz.
She hosted NPR’s syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, which ran for a staggering 23 years before its end in 2014, and her most recent O’Keh release, Memphis… Yes, I’m Ready, is a celebration of the Memphis soul and R&B of her youth.
Charlap is a consummate soloist and bandleader, known for work Tony Bennett, Phil Woods, Barbra Streisand, and his own superb trio. In recent years, Charlap has established himself as one of the most respected keyboardists in jazz and leader of one its great piano trios. His newest Blue Note release, Street of Dreams, was released in 2021.
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A creative force to be reckoned with. One of the finest contemporary female jazz singers working today.
PopMatters on Dee Dee Bridgewater
A creative force to be reckoned with. One of the finest contemporary female jazz singers working today.
PopMatters on Dee Dee Bridgewater
Personnel
Dee Dee Bridgewater vocals
Bill Charlap piano
Charlap ranges over the keyboard with nimble, crisply swinging lines, subtly layered textures, dense chords and spiky interjections.
TIME Magazine
Charlap ranges over the keyboard with nimble, crisply swinging lines, subtly layered textures, dense chords and spiky interjections.
TIME Magazine
Personnel
Dee Dee Bridgewater vocals
Bill Charlap piano
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