Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap

“[Bridgewater] has a technique and musicality that bests most performers of her generation.” – Guardian

“Charlap is masterful… rollicking stride piano, bebop virtuosity and harmonically opulent modernism.”  – New York Times

Effortless. Spontaneous. Inimitable. The convergence of two of jazz’s most legendary forces of nature.

Drawing on the canons of luminary composers: Ellington, Porter, Sondheim, LeGrand, Simon, and others, their virtuosic interpretations traverse the musical spectrum… from intimate ballads to soulful grooves, delivered with daring expression borne of their musical chemistry.

Each performance is a sublime tour-de-force.

A restless explorer who has collaborated with master musicians of Mali, interpreted the cabaret of Kurt Weill and embraced the hard bop of Horace Silver, 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater is joined by Grammy-winning pianist Bill Charlap for these intimate duo performances featuring jazz classics and songbook standards.

Since she first gained recognition in the early 1970s with the great Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Dee Dee Bridgewater has thrived wherever she’s landed, from Broadway, where she earned a Tony Award for her work in the original production of The Wiz, to Paris, where she spent more than a decade as France’s greatest champion of jazz.

Bill Charlap is a consummate soloist and bandleader, known for work with Tony Bennett, Phil Woods, Barbra Streisand, and his own superb trio. In recent years, Charlap has established himself as one of the most respected keyboardists in jazz and leader of one its great piano trios. His newest release, Street of Dreams, was released in 2021.

Recommended for Fans of Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Benny Green and David Hazeltine. 

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