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Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top step of the current jazz singers, giving his unique and personal touch to standards, in addition to bold leaps of faith when revamping classic jazz.
For his latest recording, Eleanora Fagan (1917-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Bridgewater pays tribute to Billie Holliday.
The album is presentael Friday November 18, the day will also act in Cartagena one of the new ladies of American music, Lizz Wright.
After three works with which he has captivated critics and audiences with jazz, soul and R'n'B with the gospel in the spotlight, Lizz Wright pays tribute to its religious roots.
The double session will begin at 21:30 pm in the Auditorium and Conference Centre The Batel.
In the course of a multifaceted career that has spanned four decades, Dee Dee Bridgewater (USA, 1950) has ascended to the top step of the current jazz singers, giving his unique and personal touch to standards, in addition to breaks intrepid faith at the time to rejuvenate classic jazz.
For his latest recording, Eleanora Fagan (1917-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee Bridgewater pays its homage to an iconic figure in jazz, Billie Holliday, who died tragically at the age of forty-four years, half a century ago . This album is my way of paying my respects to a singer who made ​​it possible for singers like me to forge a career for themselves, said Bridgewater, who played the role of Holiday in Lady Day triumphant theatrical production, based on the autobiography of the singer, Lady Sings the Blues, and represented in Paris and London in 1986 and 1987.
Eleanora Fagan wanted to be something different, more modern and a celebration, not a [recording] has just turned somber and sad and maudlin.
I wanted the album was happy.
With this work, in honor of the great Billie Holliday, is recreating the great figures of jazz, not in vain in 1997 won a Grammy for his album in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, and it was dedicated to the worship service to Horace Silver ( Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver, 1995) and Kurt Weill (This Is New, 2002).
Not surprisingly, Lizz Wright (USA, 1980) focuses his new album Fellowship in the Gospels.
From small absorbed the tradition and strength of the gospel that he showed his father, pastor, pianist and musical director of the local Baptist Church of Hahira (Georgia), and with their families and siblings traveled through the southern U.S.
gospel singing.
After three works with which he has captivated critics and audiences with jazz, soul and R'n'B with the gospel in the spotlight, it's time to pay homage to their religious roots.
On the record presented in the Cartagena Jazz Festival also brings his spot is a few songs from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and has acercardo to make sense of their cancioneroa singer and songwriter Angelique Kidjo African, African multi-instrumentalist Me'shell N'Degeocello German, violinist and guitarist Joan Wasser and the entire African-American female a cappella Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Lizz Wright returns to present a tour of the roots of Afro-American music connecting with ancestral Africans brought to his forced exile in the cotton fields.
Confirmation of a new queen of American music which was in Cartagena tracks very closely.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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