Dee Dee Bridgewater News

Grammy-winning vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater, Janis Siegel, and Al Jarreau are featured in this all-star celebration of the music of Ella Fitzgerald, with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, Antonio Hart, music director.

At the B&M Theocharakis Foundation, violinist Cihat Askin, viola player Ali Basegmezler and others will perform SchubertA's A'Trout QuintetA' tonight, in a concert supported by the Consulate General of Turkey in Athens-Piraeus that will follow a performance by soprano Maria Milolidaki and pianist Apostolos Palios.

Every night is a good night for jazz, but tonight is extra special. Dee Dee Bridgewater , a Grammy and Tony award winner, is paying tribute to Billie Holiday at Strathmore at 8 p.m. The show is an extension of the play "Lady Day," which Bridgewater first performed in Paris 23 years ago.

'Company': Village Theatre Guild is performing "Company" at 8 p.m. Nov. 6 and 7 at 3S020 Park Blvd.

Jazz performer Dee Dee Washington will sing tunes Billie Holiday made famous on Friday evening at the Music Center at Strathmore.

Dee Dee Bridgewater lives her life with her ears open. Speaking by phone last week from her home outside Las Vegas, a reporter's typing on the other end of the line distracted her and led her to mention how she typed 120 words a minute and wrote shorthand years ago.

Sunday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., many of the most notable figures in jazz looked toward the future and celebrated the storied past.

Dee Dee Bridgewater performs at the 2009 Detroit Jazz Festival. Juilliard Jazz Ensemble Jeremy Viner, tenor Donald Vega, piano Yasushi Nakamura, bass Bryan Carter, drums Juilliard Set List "Butterfly Waltz" "I Mean You" Bennie Maupin's Dolphyana Bennie Maupin, soprano and tenor sax and bass clarinet Nestor Torres, flute Jay Hoggard, vibes and ...

After a three-year absence, the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition returned to Washington on Sunday night and gave local fans plenty to cheer about. For the world of jazz, the glittering gala and competition are Oscar night and 'American Idol' finals rolled into one -- though with a much higher level of talent.

Since its founding in 1987, the annual contest, sponsored by the Washington-based Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, has become the most prestigious competition in the world for aspiring jazz musicians. Focusing on a different instrument each year, it has become the equivalent of the Van Cliburn and Tchaikovsky competitions in classical music. Past winners and finalists, such as Joshua Redman, Jane Monheit and Eric Alexander, have become the new stars of jazz.

The winner of the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Bass competition is Ben Williams.

The Jarasum International Jazz Festival will take place on Jarasum Some say autumn brings out the sentimental side of people.

Jazz this week: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ann Hampton Callaway, Eric Person, Frank Catalano, Frank Rosaly, and more You might say this week's menu of jazz and creative music events in St.

Next week will be another busy one for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and among the visitors to our fair city will be two well-known female vocalists, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Ann Hampton Callaway .

Christian Gauffre is a French journalist and jazz critic, he has written numerous biographies, including on singer Billie Holiday and saxophonist Charles Parker.

What a relief to be back: The Monterey Jazz Festival, its 52nd annual edition, got started Friday night and continues through the weekend.

Inner City Records is proud to announce the re-release of Charles Sullivan's 1974 debut album Genesis.

So far the 30th anniversary celebration of the Detroit International Jazz Festival, taking place from Campus Martius down to the riverfront, has been the perfect mix of balmy late-summer weather, spicy festival food and jazz in all its 20th and 21st century permutations.

When she is on her game, Dee Dee Bridgewater is the most commanding jazz singer on the planet.

The Monterey Jazz Festival is a tonic, a seasonal pleasure - with the friendly crowds, the profusion of great music.

First performance of Penn Presents 09/10 Jazz Series Described by USA Today as simply sumptuous, Grammy- nominated jazz vocalist Jane Monheit returns to the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts to perform highlights from her most recent album The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM.