Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee's Feathers

Dee Dee Bridgewater | Irvin Mayfield | the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

Following love letters to Paris (J'ai Deux Amours) and Mali (Red Earth), for her latest release the great Dee Dee...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Dee Dee Bridgewater: Midnight Sun

André Ceccarelli | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Ira Coleman | Thierry Eliez

Despite the wildly differing treatments, ranging from the sumptuous orchestral setting of Johnny Mercer’s title track (from Dear Ella) to...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2012

Dee Dee Bridgewater: Memphis…Yes I'm Ready

Charles Hodges | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Jackie Clark | James ‘Bishop’ Sexton | John Stoddart | Kirk Whalum

Following her magnificent love letter to New Orleans (2015’s Dee Dee’s Feather’s), the inimitable NEA Jazz Master, vocalist, producer and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family

A seminal Bridgewater album, with backing vocals and strings, but with producer Stanley Clarke and friends ensuring that the ‘family’...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Dee Byrne's Entropi: Moment Frozen

Andre Canniere | Dee Byrne | Matt Fisher | Olie Brice | Rebecca Nash

London-based altoist and LUME collective co-founder Dee Byrne cites astronomy, time, the intensity of John Coltrane, late period Miles Davis...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Dee Daniels: State of the Art

A latecomer to jazz vocals, this New York-based singer has something of her namesake Dee Dee Bridgewater about her interpretations...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Dee Byrne: Outlines

Andrew Lisle | Dee Byrne | Nick Malcolm | Olie Brice | Rebecca Nash | Tom Ward

The title suggests sketchiness but this music is anything but sketchy. Saxophonist Dee Byrne's often intricate compositions and her choice...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2023

Theo Croker: Escape Velocity

Ben Eunson | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Eric Wheeler | Femi Temowo | Irwin Hall | Jeffrey ‘Doc’ Fletcher | Kassa Overall | Michael King | Theo Croker

The young trumpeter maintains the impressive momentum he has generated since 2006’s The Fundamentals with an album that creatively networks...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2016

Frank Foster: The Loud Minority

Airto Moreira | Cecil Bridgewater | Charles McGee | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Dick Griffin | Earl Dunbar | Elvin Jones | Frank Foster | Gene Perla | Harold Mabern

Although best-known as one of the stars of the Basie band, Foster was also a fine composer, as ‘Shiny Stockings’...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2014

Mali All Stars: Bogolan Music

Cheick Tidiane Seck | Damon Albarn | Dee Bridgewater | Mangala Camara | Oumou Sangare | Toumani Diabate | Vieux Farke Toure

Bogolan means ‘made from mud’ in Bambara, the main language of Mali. Bogolan textiles are ubiquitous across West Africa –...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2014