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Live at Yoshi's (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)

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Released
  
February 15, 2000

Length
  
36:31

Artist
  
Dee Dee Bridgewater

Label
  
Verve Records

Recorded
  
April 25–28, 1998

Live at Yoshi's (1998)
  
This Is New (1998)

Release date
  
15 February 2000

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

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Similar
  
Dee Dee Bridgewater albums, Jazz albums

Live at Yoshi's is a 1998 live album by Dee Dee Bridgewater, recorded at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, California.

Contents

Bridgewater sings several songs from her last album Dear Ella, a tribute to the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who had died a year previously, and this live album was recorded on what would have been Fitzgerald's 81st birthday.

Track listing

  1. "Undecided" (Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 8:57
  2. "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 6:09
  3. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 7:56
  4. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 5:13
  5. "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" (James Brown) – 2:32
  6. "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 7:08
  7. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 6:14
  8. "Love for Sale" (vocal melody : Cole Porter, music : Herbie Hancock) – 14:06
  9. "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 9:42

Personnel

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater - vocals
  • Thierry Eliez - hammond organ, piano
  • Thomas Bramerie - double bass
  • Ali Muhammed Jackson - percussion, drums

    • Songs

    1Undecided8:57
    2Slow Boat to China6:09
    3Stairway to the Stars7:56

    References

    Live at Yoshi's (Dee Dee Bridgewater album) Wikipedia
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