- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 27 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Singer and actress Dee Dee Bridgewater was born on May 27, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Flint, Michigan. Bridgewater attended Michigan State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1970, she met and married trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater and moved to New York City. She sang lead vocals for the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in the early 1970s, and appeared in the Broadway musical, The Wiz, from 1974 to 1976. Bridgewater released her first album in 1974, Afro Blue, and went on to record more than a dozen albums in her lifetime. She performed with Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Terence Blanchard and was sought after to perform in musical festivals, television shows, and on the radio. She owned her own production company and record label, and hosted the NPR syndicated radio show, JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Bridgewater has won three Grammy Awards and one Tony Award.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Dee Dee Bridgewater
- Dee Dee Bridgewater
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208266
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dee Dee Bridgewater.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
022737
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2014 November 10.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Singer Actress.
- Added Author
Bridgewater, Dee Dee, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.