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Music CD - Dee Dee Bridgewater: Red Earth
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Music CD: Red Earth
Artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $5.75
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Manufacturer: Emarcy / Umgd
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1. Afro Blue
2. Bad Spirits
3. Dee Dee
4. Mama Don't Ever Go Away (Mama Digna Sara Ye)
5. Footprints
6. Children Go 'Round (Demissenw)
7. The Griots (Sakhodougou)
8. Oh My Love (Djarabi)
9. Four Women
10. No More (Bambo)
11. Red Earth (Massane Cisse)
12. Meanwhile
13. Compared To What
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517438293
Label: Emarcy / Umgd
Manufacturer: Emarcy / Umgd
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Emarcy / Umgd
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Emarcy / Umgd
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Summary: COLOURFUL WORLD ETHNIC MUSIC WITH STRENGTH AND ROBUSTNESS
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Became a Fan of Bridgewater on a Plane
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Specatular!
Comment: 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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Summary: Softer than on FM
Comment: I personally was introduced to this CD on an FM radio that broadcasted Four Women. The radio version was much more energetic than the CD. Still, quite good Jazz
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Summary: A Minor Masterpiece
Comment: I hadn't gotten even halfway through this c.d. on first listen, before I had the distinct first impression that this is a masterpiece.
After a few complete listens, I'll temper my enthusiasm, but only slightly. I mean, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," Charles Mingus' "Let My Children Hear Music," and Duke Ellington's "In a Mellow Tone" are masterpieces, after all. But this is at the least a minor masterpiece. It also is one of the best vocal jazz c.d.'s of 2007 and quite possibly the best, and a c.d. which absolutely, positively deserves a Grammy nomination.
It also, IMO, is Dee Dee Bridgewater's career highlight. I loved her 2005 release, "Jai Deux Amours." In retrospect, however, that c.d. merely hinted at the greatness of this one. It's like she ripped the top off of the creative bottle, and what the genie has wrought is a wonderment to behold.
This c.d. is a testament to the human condition. The call and response of "Mama Don't Ever Go Away (Mama Digna Sara Ye)" or "Children Go 'Round (Demissenw)", for example, should play as well in Mali as in Manhattan--or Manitoba, for that matter.
But even more basically, this c.d. is to jazz as Paul Simon's "Graceland" is to pop. Which is to say, I cannot think of a better meld of American jazz to African music (including Dizzy Gillespie's "Kush"!). The rhythms throughout are stunning. With a percussion section of 5 or 6 African instruments throughout played by native Malians, and with jagged contrapuntal rhythms over 9/8, 7/8 and 8/8 (yes, "Long Time Ago" is in 8/8--not 4/4, not cut time) meters, this c.d. never ceases to fascinate metrically. And the Malian background vocals sound like the cultural precursor to American inner-city rap.
On first listen, though, I wondered whether the decision to include Nina Simone's "Four Women" and Eugene McDaniel's "Compared to What" was such a good idea. I thought both of these great songs were uniquely American. But as I think more about it, I conclude to the contrary. They may both have been borne of American experience; but outrage over the abuses of slavery and outrage over a morally crumbling society from the government down are hardly unique American commodities. (Recall apartheid, Idi Amin, the Tsutsi's, or Darfur, anyone?) No, these songs work--in fact, "Compared to What" makes a terrific exclamation point ending to a terrific album.
Don't buy this c.d.--buy two copies. One for you and one for a friend who cares about jazz. Your friend will forever thank you. RC
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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