Dee Dee Bridgewater - This Is New (2002)

Artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater
Title Of Album: This Is New
Year Of Release: 2002
Label (Catalog#) : Verve[016 884-2]
Country:: USA
Genre: Jazz Vocal
Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 65:17
Full Size: 398Mb(+3%)(covers)
Info:wiki

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

Tracks:
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01."This Is New" (Ira Gershwin) – 3:47
02. "Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson) – 5:36
03. "The Bilbao Song" (Michael Feingold, Frank McGuinness) – 10:24
04. "My Ship" (Ira Gershwin) – 4:56
05. "Alabama Song" (Bertolt Brecht) – 5:38
06. "The Saga of Jenny" (Ogden Nash) – 4:54
07. "Youkali" (Roger Fernay) – 3:54
08. "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" (Ogden Nash) – 5:50
09. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash) – 4:17
10. "September Song" (Anderson) – 4:40
11. "Here I'll Stay" (Alan Jay Lerner) – 11:15

Personnel:
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Dee Dee Bridgewater – vocals
Thierry Eliez – Hammond B3 organ, piano, backing vocals, arrangements (tracks: 1, 2)
Louis Winsberg – guitar
Ira Coleman – double bass
André Ceccarelli – drums
Minino Garay – percussion
Nicolas Folmer – trumpet
Denis LeLoup – trombone
Daniele Scannapieco – alto saxophone, flute
Antonio Hart – alto saxophone (2, 10), flute (3)
Juan José Mosalini – bandoneon (7)
Cecil Bridgewater – arranger (except 1, 2), conductor
Bernie Arcadio – string arrangements (4, 9)
China Moses, Tulani Bridgewater Kowalski – backing vocals

All thanks to original releaser