Dee Dee Bridgewater

Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee

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February 15th, 2010

 

Over the course of a multifaceted career that has spanned four decades, Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top tier of today's jazz vocalists, putting her own unique spin on standards as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics. For her latest recording, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, Bridgewater honors an iconic jazz figure, Billie Holiday, who died tragically at the age of 44 a half-century ago.

Salif Keita

La Difference

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February 8th, 2010

 

For more than forty years Salif Keita has been the goldsmith of modern Malian music, tirelessly pursuing his craft by extending musical frontiers in a constant quest for new ways to make records; and his own music has multiplied its overtures to the world around him...

Bojan Z

Humus

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January 4th, 2010

 

It all began in 2004, even before "Xenophonia". "I heard Scottish drummer Sebastian Rochford at the Bath Festival. One of the mainstays of the punk instrumental group Acoustic Ladyland. He was really tight, with all the UK beats played straight. He knocked me out!" It moved Bojan Z to work together with someone so that the right questions would be asked about what they were doing: "The type of sound-palette that I've liked ever since I started... it had been at the back of my mind for a long time. I adore that sound, but what could I do with my little piano?"