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VOA常速英语:Dee Dee Bridgewater Pays Tribute to Billie Holiday
2010-05-22来源:和谐英语
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If anyone knows a little something about the music of Billie Holiday, it's Dee Dee Bridgewater. More than 20 years ago, she garnered rave reviews for her role as Holiday in a theatrical production, staged in London and Paris, titled "Lady Day." While working to launch a revival of the show on Broadway, Dee Dee recorded a dozen new arrangements of Holiday classics.
Billie Holiday, who was born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore, Maryland, rose to fame as a singer of love songs as well as a songwriter in the late-1930s with tunes like "Fine And Mellow," recently revived on "Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love, From Dee Dee Bridgewater."
According to Bridgewater, Billie Holiday has inspired jazz and blues performers the world over. She says, "This album was my way of paying my respect to a vocalist who made it possible for singers like me to carve out a career for ourselves."
On the album Dee Dee Bridgewater sings the jazz standard, "All Of Me," once recorded by Billie Holiday with saxophonist Lester Young. It features Dee Dee's "dream band," comprised of pianist Edsel Gomez, bassist Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash, and James Carter on saxophone, flute and clarinet
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