I love the album cover for multi-hyphenate Dee Dee Bridgewater’s debut album, 1974’s Afro Blue. Dee Dee is a Grammy-award winning singer, actor, philanthropist, etc. She’s bad bad. Just like this ...

You can take the internationally celebrated singing star out of Memphis, but you can’t take Memphis out of the internationally celebrated singing star, even after she spent decades living in other ...

A conversation with the original Glinda the Good witch from the Wiz about why the play struck such a chord with black audiences. Dee Dee Bridgewater played Glinda the good witch in the original 1974 ...

Dee Dee Bridgewater has accomplished so much in her career. She’s an amazing jazz singer, who has won multiple Grammys, as well an accomplished actress who brought home the Tony for best featured ...

The second time’s a charm as far as Dee Dee Bridgewater and the Detroit Jazz Festival are concerned. The Grammy and Tony Award winner, who was raised in Flint, had to postpone her role was the DJF ...

June 3-6: One of the strongest jazz recordings of the year so far, “Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee,” finds the singer Dee Dee Bridgewater paying fond yet inventive ...

After the superlative introduction by Minneapolis’s Dakota Jazz Club’s owner, Lowell Pickett, I expected a rich, preeminent performance by Dee Dee Bridgewater, surpassing anything I’d experienced ...