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Live at Yoshi's [ ÉLŐ ]
Dee Dee Bridgewater
első megjelenés éve: 1998
68 perc
(2009)

CD
3.324 Ft 

 

IMPORT!
Kosaramba teszem
1.  Undecided
2.  Slow Boat To China
3.  Stairway To The Stars
4.  What A Little Moonlight Can Do
5.  Sex Machine
6.  Midnight Sun
7.  Cherokee
8.  Love For Sale
9.  Cotton Tail
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz, Vocal Jazz

Recorded on April 23, 24, 25 1998 at Yoshi's at Jack London Square (Oakland,CA)

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Vocal, Producer
Thomas Bramerie - Acoustic Bass
Ali Jackson - Drums, Percussion
Thierry Eliez - Piano, Organ

Recorded at the legendary Bay Area jazz club, this electrifying follow-up to the double Grammy Award-winning CD, Dear Ella, captures one of today's premier jazz divas in a thrilling tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.
Live At Yoshi's highlights the vocal artistry, distinctive charisma, and sheer energy that are trademarks of the one and only Dee Dee Bridgewater.


GRAMMY NOMINATED ALBUM, LIVE AT YOSHI'S: A PARAMOUNT JAZZ EXPERIENCE only rarely transpires within the confines of a studio. For a music that blooms on the improvisational cusp, jazz thrives in a live setting where the conditions for discovery are optimum. Indeed, if the band is on and the audience open, a jazz performance set in an intimate club can effect those kinds of spontaneous eruptions of music that can never be duplicated.

We've all been to those special shows and wished afterward, if only the proceedings had been recorded, right? Well, that's what makes Dee Dee Bridgewater's latest release, Live at Yoshi's, such a sumptuous treat. During her sold-out week-long stint in April 1998 at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, California (on the east shore of San Francisco Bay), the tapes were rolling, documenting her and her trio mates pianist-organist Thierry Eliez, bassist Thomas Bramerie and drummer Ali Jackson II delivering the goods in that rarified state of jazz alchemy.

"Live is cool," says Bridgewater, an onstage dynamo who commands the stage with equal parts elegance, exuberance and funky soul. "The artists get to let their hair down. It's more relaxed than a studio setting and you can play off the audience. Plus, you're working with the ambiance of the club itself."

For the Yoshi's date, Bridgewater focused on material from her double Grammy Award-winning CD, Dear Ella. Paying reverential homage to the First Lady of Song (many of the tunes were recorded on the April 25 show which marked the 80th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birthday), Bridgewater opens the show with a spirited take on "Undecided", offers a graceful swing through "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", caresses the radiant melody of the ballad "Stairway to the Stars", hushes the house with a ruby-toned rendition of "Midnight Sun" and concludes the set by scatting through "Cotton Tail". Also in the mix are a euphoric flight through "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", an upbeat into "Cherokee" and an epic, multi-climaxing version of "Love for Sale".

Throw in an impromptu ride through James Brown's bumpin' "Sex Machine" (a spur-of-the-moment swangin' funk bit that Bridgewater had to partly ad lib because she didn't remember all the words) and you get the full song listing of the Dee Dee live package. But that's not the entire A-through-Z of the affair. Unlike most live discs where it sounds like the artist and the audience were instructed to be on their best behavior (read: keep it under check), Live at Yoshi's opens a window not only on Bridgewater's ease of rapport with her fans but also her fun-loving sense of humor.

"Certainly the songs are important, but I also wanted to give people the feeling of what it's like to spend a full evening with me," Bridgewater explains. "In recent years, clowning around has become a big part of my performance. I love taking a few moments to make the audience laugh." She pauses and adds with that robust chuckle which wonderfully pervades the set, "You know, it's always been a dream to do stand-up comedy."

So, check out Dee Dee's "get a boat" intro to "Slow Boat to China", which she leans back and belts out once she's set sail, her hearty laughs while Eliez romps on the organ in "Cherokee", and her purrs and growls on her "naughty" interpretation of "Love for Sale".


13 years after her prior in-performance release Live in Paris, Bridgewater has not so much matured or refined her approach as she has gotten bolder. This CD was recorded on what would have been her idol Ella Fitzgerald's 80th birthday weekend at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. She scats in the style of Fitzgerald on most of these numbers -- not quite in the higher range, but comfortably in the middle -- while also displaying some of Sarah Vaughan's more deeply soulful traits. It's a combination of the two, with a little bawdiness for spice, that has made Bridgewater a prime purveyor of excitable jazz vocalizing these days. The set begins with the Charlie Shavers evergreen "Undecided," as the singer stops and starts the band on several dimes for the initial lines, exacting choppy phrases and similar scatting � la Fitzgerald on the bridge. In an Ella-cum-Betty Carter mode for "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," Bridgewater waxes frantically on the effect of an obviously full moon turning her into a scatting monster during two different uptempos. Then she brings out the Sarah Vaughan nightshade for "Midnight Sun," a memorable rendition especially buoyed by Eliez, with rubato intro of bass and piano underneath cat-walking, stealth phrases, stunningly set between the bass and piano lock-step with the vocal line. Then they dive headlong into "Love for Sale" for just over 14 minutes, and more delicate vocals lead to a scat much faster than the band's rhythm. The finale "Cotton Tail" is a three-ring exercise in scat. This program comprises a side of Bridgewater's well-known vehicles used for years as a springboard for her formidable talent -- unabashed and unafraid. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide

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