{"id":4250,"date":"2025-07-30T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:12:38","slug":"dee-dee-bridgewater-bill-charlap-elemental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/music\/dee-dee-bridgewater-bill-charlap-elemental\/","title":{"rendered":"DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER, BILL CHARLAP &#8211; ELEMENTAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist:\u00a0<strong>Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bill Charlap<\/strong><br>Album:\u00a0<strong>Elemental<\/strong><br>Label:\u00a0<strong>Mack Avenue Records<\/strong><br>Link:\u00a0<strong>www.deedeebridgewater.com<\/strong><br>Style:\u00a0<strong>Jazz<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>It is impossible to go into detail about Dee Dee Bridgewater&#8217;s career, as it began more than 50 years ago, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. The daughter of a jazz trumpeter, she sang with Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach before embarking on a rich discography as a lead artist. She has won numerous awards and is involved in teaching and humanitarian work. Bill Charlap also comes from a family of musicians. He began learning classical piano at the age of three, but it was jazz that inspired him, particularly that of the 1940s to 1960s. After performing together in concert, the two artists continued their adventure on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything has already been said about Dee Dee Bridgewater, an outstanding vocalist with a love of improvisation and impeccable technical mastery. She is accompanied by an equally talented pianist, and their mutual respect and complicity are palpable on this album. The piano knows how to make subtle, adventurous deviations without stealing the spotlight from the imperial voice. It is a joy to follow these flights of fancy, where technique allows the artist to literally have fun with her vocal possibilities. On the other hand, if overused, these vocal games may tire those who are resistant to any form of scat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Dee Dee Bridgewater album must pay tribute to such a voice, which is the case here. The sound is beautifully defined, while maintaining a silky treble on the highest notes of the piano. The dynamics of the inflections of the voice and the hammer strikes are realistic and always pleasant. The sibilants are discreet, allowing you to listen at a high volume without feeling any discomfort, even when listening to the little jokes. When the piano is more solitary, it is a pleasure to scrutinize the sometimes subtle and sometimes more assertive touch of Bill Charlap, who also knows how to work wonders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After performing together on stage for a series of concerts, singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianist Bill Charlap recorded Elemental, an album where their jazz is by turns subtle and playful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-contemporary-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}