Released April 17, 2007 Artist Dee Dee Bridgewater Genre Jazz | Length 69:40 Release date 17 April 2007 | |
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Recorded August 24-27, 2006 at Studio Bogolan
November 1-7, 2006 at Studio Davout Red Earth
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Red Earth is a 2007 studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater. It carries the subtitle "A Malian Journey" to celebrate and explore her African and Malian ancestry. Nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards, it reached Number 16 on Billboard's Top Jazz Album chart.
Contents
Track listing
All compositions by Dee Dee Bridgewater, except as noted.
- "Afro Blue" (Oscar Brown, Jr., Mongo Santamaría) (5:11)
- "Bad Spirits" (5:49)
- "Dee Dee" (Bridgewater, Baba Sissoko) (2:57)
- "Mama Don't Ever Go Away" (5:39)
- "Long Time Ago" (Bridgewater, Wayne Shorter) (6:48)
- "Children Go 'Round" (6:05)
- "The Griots" (6:04)
- "Oh My Love" (6:03)
- "Four Women" (Nina Simone) (5:24)
- "No More" (4:45)
- "Red Earth" (5:17)
- "Meanwhile" (Bridgewater, Edsel Gomez) (4:25)
- "Compared to What" (Lassy "King" Massassy, Gene McDaniels) (5:21)
All tracks recorded in Bamako (Mali) At Studio Bogolan except tracks 11, 12 and 13 recorded in Paris at Davout studios.
Personnel
Songs
1Afro Blue5:11
2Bad Spirits (Bani)5:48
3Dee Dee2:56
References
Red Earth (Dee Dee Bridgewater album) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA