Dee Dee Bridgewater Quintet

Few entertainers have ever commanded such depth of artistry in every medium. Fewer still have been rewarded with Broadway’s coveted Tony Award (Best Featured Actress in a Musical for The Wiz), nominated for the London theater’s West End equivalent, the Laurence Olivier Award (Best Actress in a Musical for Lady Day), won three Grammy Awards (Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2011 for Eleanora Fagan: To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater, Best Jazz Vocal Performance and Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal in 1998 for “Cottontail” arranged by Slide Hampton, on Dear Ella), and France’s top honor, Victoire de la Musique (Best Jazz Vocal Album in 1998).