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Dee Dee Bridgewater, This Is New

Audio CD

Disk ID: 286488

Disk length: 1h 5m 18s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2002

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. This Is New 3:47
2. Lost in the Stars 5:36
3. Bilbao Song10:24
4. My Ship 4:56
5. Alabama Song 5:38
6. The Saga of Jenny 4:54
7. Youkali 3:54
8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself 5:50
9. Speak Low 4:17
10. September Song 4:40
11. Here I'll Stay11:15

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Review

This 12-song homage to German composer Kurt Weill exceeds even the excellence of Bridgewater's classic vocal tributes to Horace Silver and Ella Fitzgerald. The main reason is that Weill wrote for theater, and beyond being a singer, Bridgewater is a Tony Award-winning actress, an announcer, and a noted humorist, all talents used to great effect here. Weill's best-known tragicomic character, Macheath, or "Mack the Knife," appears on the hidden track here, but Bridgewater also introduces others in "The Saga of Jenny" and "Bilbao Song." Only an accomplished stage actress, who also happens to be a great jazz singer, could suspend disbelief as she does in these absolutely enthralling tales of violence, sex, and greed. Many of Weill's songs are jazz standards, and Bridgewater puts definitive stamps on three of them--"Speak Low," an organ powered "This Is New," and an exquisite ballad reading of "My Ship." Bridgewater also broadens her sonic palette, as, for the first time for her, the guitar is prominent in many of the superb arrangements she uses. Sprinkled in also is a bit of world music, particularly Brazilian samba. --Mark RuffinDee Dee Describes this Weil Project. 'the Songs Come from Musicals and Operettas. They Are Narratives. This Music Appeals to My Theatrical Side Because it Lends Itself to Dramatization in Performance. I Find Kurt Weill to Be Eclectic, Much Like Myself. I also Wanted to Explore Someone Beyond the Jazz Realm. With this Album, I Am Trying to Make the Music More Accessible. The Rhythmic Tone of the Album Stems from My Fascination with World Music - a Milieu Toward which I Am Moving. Kurt Weill's Music is Often Considered Dark and Brooding. I Hope to Show a Lighter and More Humorous Side. It is Romantic and Moving. As Kurt Weill Said, 'there is Only Good Music and Bad Music.'

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

This Is New

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 1h 5m 12s (-1m 54s)

This Is New

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 1h 5m 42s (+0m 24s)

This Is New

Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 9m 45s (+4m 27s)

This Is New

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 59m 44s (-6m 26s)

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