He entered the discography in 1974 with “Afro Blue” and, in the almost 50 years that followed, he has released twenty albums while making countless guest appearances on records by names such as Roy Ayers, Ray Brown and Christian McBride.
One of the greatest jazz performers of all time, Dee Dee Bridgewater, will open the curtain on the now established “Cosmos” concert series of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Monday, November 14 at 8:30 p.m. in the Stavros Niarchos Hall.
Over the course of her varied career, Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz priestess and Athenian crowd favorite, Dee Dee Bridgewater, has emerged as a world-class performer, putting her unique stamp on the interpretation of classics.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, her involvement in music seemed predestined, due to the great musical tradition of her hometown, but also because of her father who was a jazz trumpeter.
He entered the discography in 1974 with “Afro Blue” and, in the almost 50 years that followed, he has released twenty albums while making countless guest appearances on records by names such as Roy Ayers, Ray Brown and Christian McBride.
She has won three Grammy Awards, most recently for Best Jazz Vocal Album for “Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee.”
Throughout her career, Bridgewater has always bridged different musical genres. She gained her first professional experience as a member of the legendary Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and during the 1970s performed alongside such great names of American jazz as Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie.
After a brief stint in pop music in the 1980s, she moved to Paris and turned her attention back to jazz.
Bridgewater began producing her own albums, her first being Keeping Tradition (Polydor/Verve) in 1993, and in 2006 she founded the DDB Records label when she was hired as a producer by Universal Music Group.
Always produced by herself, all of her albums have been warmly received by critics and audiences, and almost all have been nominated for Grammys, with the hugely successful Ella Fitzgerald tribute album Dear Ella winning two. At the same time, Bridgewater was also active in musical theater, winning a Tony Award for her role in “The Wiz” in 1975, while participating in many shows, on and off-Broadway.
She also has extensive philanthropic work – she created programs to help women in the music industry, and served as a UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) seeking to fund efforts to fight hunger around the world. people.
The concert is held thanks to the donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Tickets: from 10 to 25 euros.
More information can be found at snfcc.org/DeeDeeBridgewater.
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