Keeping Tradition

Dee Dee Bridgewater | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: October 19, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046QK
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,429 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just One Of Those Things

2. Fascinating Rhythm

3. The Island

4. Angel Eyes

5. What Is This Thing Called Love?

6. Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)

7. I'm A Fool To Want You/I Fall In Love Too Easily

8. Lullaby Of Birdland

9. What A Little Moonlight Can Do

10. Love Vibrations

11. Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Around A Pug-Nosed Dream)

12. Sister Sadie

Editorial Reviews

Keeping Tradition was recorded in December 1992. The release is devoted to the reinterpretation of classic standards, with a superb new approach that showed tremendous creativity, imagination and passion on the part of Dee Dee and her trio. The album was rewarded in 1994 with France's "Django d'Or" Award and Dee Dee's second Grammy® Nomination. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Her best album ever!, June 8, 1999

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Darrren12000 "Darren" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeping Tradition (Audio CD)

While Dee Dee's work is always polished, sometimes she can lack emotion and spirit. This album, however, combines her excellent craft with interpretation and emotion -- by far her best work. "The Island" is extremely seductive!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch traditional jazz vocals, September 6, 1998

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[e-mail] (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeping Tradition (Audio CD)

Dee Dee Bridgewater has a voice that can come close to the range of Sarah Vaughan, can growl like Bessie Smith, and can scat like Ella. On this CD she demonstrates a remarkable versatility on a recording that features the traditional jazz idiom with clean, clear modern recording. Superior (for a mainstream jazz traditionalist who wants a current voice) to the more R&B "Love and Peace" CD.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what a discovery, February 8, 2005

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Quitoca (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeping Tradition (Audio CD)

I was late in discovering this extraordinary singer and I was thrilled by this album, which led me to buy some of her other CDs. Her treatment of "Autumn leaves" is this album is simply marvellous. What a singer!