Red Earth | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater
Label: Emarcy / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 23796
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000909102
UPC: 602517438293
EAN: 0602517438293
ASIN: B000TSMP1U
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Afro Blue - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Santamaria, Mongo | | • | Bad Spirits - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diabate, Kasse Mady | | • | Dee Dee - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sissoko, Baba | | • | Mama Don't Ever Go Away - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diakate, Ramata | | • | Long Time Ago - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Shorter, Wayne | | • | Children Go 'Round - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kouyate, Sekou "Bas | | • | The Griots - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kandia, Kouyate Sor | | • | Oh My Love - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sangare, Oumou | | • | Four Women - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Simone, Nina | | • | No More - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kouyate, Tata "Bamb | | • | Red Earth - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kandia, Kouyate Sor | | • | Meanwhile - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Dee De | | • | Compared to What - Dee Dee Bridgewater, McDaniels, Gene |
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Description
Dee Dee Bridgewater is first and foremost a groundbreaker, an artist whose projects have traversed the musical kaleidoscope from traditional vocal jazz to searing scat interpretations. Unafraid and uninhibited, these attributes make her one of the most versatile and inspiring artist and producer of her generation. Drawing on a deep font of talent and inspiration, Bridgewater's 2007 project, Red Earth--A Malian Journey, is a journey both forward and back. Melding Malian voices, music and traditional instruments with American Jazz vernacular and penning many of the lyrics, Bridgewater has crafted one of her most important musical statements to date. She explains, the album is "the culmination of my decision to find my African roots. It was an idea I first had when doing Horace Silver's music, which is so syncopated and rhythmic." The resulting Grammy -nominated album Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver solidified her resolve to further investigate African music. With the death of Ella Fitzgerald in 1996 and Dee Dee's subsequent double Grammy Award-winning tribute Dear Ella, the project was put on hold. Her ensuing albums, Live at Yoshi's, This is New, and J'ai Deux Amours, incorporated more global sounds and influences and yielded Grammy nominations for two of the albums. Dee Dee Bridgewater
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 Dee Dee shines! October 24, 2008
Gregory Renick (Dallas)
Dee Dee continues to reinvent herself with each project. 'Red Earth' is a musical journey that takes you to Africa. She is considered to be one of the great jazz singers of our time and should be listed with the all-time greats, Sarah, Ella, Billie and Nancy when history books are published. Great cd!
 Excellent, fun, and worth buying even for a non jazz fan August 22, 2008
Nathan Beauchamp (Oak Park, IL USA)
To preface this review, I am not a jazz fan. I have very little exposure to Jazz, don't own other Jazz CDs, and don't listen to Jazz regularly. I found out about this CD when NPR did and interview with Dee Dee, during which they played a couple of the tracks. I was immediately entranced by Dee Dee's amazing voice, and by the sheer energy and joy present in the music. After some consideration, I decided to buy the CD and try something new. I am so glad I did. This CD is amazing. The music is powerful, entertaining, and thankfully accessible to an inexperienced Jazz listener like myself. I've always thought of jazz as something I should like, but that might take a lot of work to appreciate. This CD changed my mind, and I may dip my toes in a little deeper...
My favorite tracks are 'Bad Spirits," "Oh My Love," and "Afro Blue." All of the tracks are enjoyable, and I like to put them on as background music for a party, or on high quality headphones to combat a bad mood. I find it interesting that Red Earth plays as well when I'm specifically listening to it with all my focus as it does as ambiance.
I'll be checking out more of Dee Dee in the near future. If you're a huge jazz fan, there's nothing I can say that you don't already know. If however you are like and have little exposure, buy the CD. It's definitely worthy of your time.
COLOURFUL WORLD ETHNIC MUSIC WITH STRENGTH AND ROBUSTNESS May 14, 2008
K. Prousalis (drama GREECE)
Among the best world-ethnic albums for this decade colourful and very strong in musical expression .OUMOU SANGARE, EDSEL GOMEZ ,BABA SISSOKO ,are some of the big names which collaborate with DEE DEE in RED EARTH .An excellent recording which will cover with the most satisfying way everybody s thirst for SUPERFINE WORLD ETHNIC MUSIC .FULL OF ENJOYMENT.
Became a Fan of Bridgewater on a Plane April 27, 2008
W. J. Smith (Castro Valley, CA USA)
I had never heard of Dee Dee Bridgewater, and then on a long plane ride Red Earth was one of the available albums for listening. I went nuts. I ordered it as soon as I got home. The mix of sounds and styles are terrific and Bridgewater's strong voice and stylizing are among the best. She's a real star.
Specatular! December 20, 2007
T. Kowalski
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Absolutely gorgeous album combining Malian traditional music with vocal Jazz and Blues. Bridgewater is absolutely a trail-blazer and this album puts her way out in front. The musicians featured on the cd are the top in their field. The vocalists bring an authenticity and fullness of sound that makes each song an adventurous journey. By far, this is Dee Dee's best album to date. It is bold, vibrant and rich...just like Mali, just like Dee Dee.
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