Customer Reviews

Keeping Tradition

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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!!!

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.

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!

This album depicts how jazz should be interpreted. The vocals are clean, crisp and tantalizing. Mrs. Bridgewater's vocal technique is unsurpassed. Every track leaves you at the edge of your seat. I've heard many vocalists in their attempts at jazz, Dee Dee is a natural. If ever you're home and you want to feel as if you're at a swank jazz pub, get a glass of wine and put this cd on!!

Very talented album with my favorite song "The Island". Dee Dee's seductive interpretation of this song takes me away...

Dee Dee Bridgewater is a jazz singer in the tradition of Ella. If you like jazz, this is a must have.

The title says it all; I love this album and I consider it the best DDB album ever.

This magnificent singer is captured in her prime at one of her typically brilliant albums from the period.

Whether singing the ballads, scatting up a storm on various standards or performing Horace Silver - she is brilliant; keaping the tradition but using the more recent jazz styles as well...

Some of her live albums may be a bit more swinging, but this is still top class jazz.

I really enjoyed this album. The songs were familiar, but reinterpreted...something you can always rely on Bridgewater to do. It's rare to hear a vocalist of this caliber.

Bridgewater's theatrical experience definitely works against her on this CD. The vocal posturing annoys and distracts. Her material is excellent, and her band really cooks. Drop the coy mannerisms and just sing, Dee Dee.