Keeping Tradition

1993 studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater

Keeping Tradition

Studio album by

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Released

1993

Recorded

8–10 December 1992

Studio

Plus XXX Studios, Paris, France

Genre

Jazz

Length

57:00

Label

Verve 519 607-2

Producer

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater chronology

In Montreux
(1992)

Keeping Tradition
(1993)

Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver
(1995)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	^[3]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	^[4]

Keeping Tradition is a studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. The album was recorded in Paris and released in 1993 via Verve Records label. The album was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.^[5] Keeping Tradition opens a series of her critically acclaimed titles, of which all but one, including her wildly successful double Grammy Award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Dear Ella, have received Grammy nominations.^[6]

Reception

Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "After performing a wide variety of music (much of it commercial) for 15 years, in the mid-'80s Dee Dee Bridgewater returned to jazz... This set with her regular French quartet has Bridgewater exploring and swinging some of her favorite standards... This CD is highly recommended, as are all of Dee Dee Bridgewater's Verve recordings."^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Just One of Those Things"	Cole Porter	2:55
2.	"Fascinating Rhythm"	George Gershwin	4:05
3.	"The Island"	Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins, Alan and Marilyn Bergman	3:41
4.	"Angel Eyes"	Matt Dennis, Earl Brent	5:51
5.	"What Is This Thing Called Love?"	Cole Porter	3:14
6.	"Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)"	Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert	6:49
7.	"Medley: I'm a Fool to Want You / I Fall in Love Too Easily"	Jack Wolf, Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra / Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn	4:10
8.	"Lullaby of Birdland"	George Shearing, George David Weiss	7:04
9.	"What a Little Moonlight Can Do"	Harry Woods	3:11
10.	"Love Vibrations"	Horace Silver	5:38
11.	"Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Around a Pug-Nosed Dream)"	Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke	5:23
12.	"Sister Sadie"	Horace Silver	4:37
Total length:			57:00

Personnel

Dee Dee Bridgewater – vocals
Thierry Eliez – piano
Hein van de Geyn – bass, arrangements
André Ceccarelli – drums

References

^ "Dee Dee Bridgewater: Keeping Tradition". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
^ Hull, Tom. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz Diffs: 4th vs. 5th Editions". Tom Hull. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 1885. ISBN 9780679768739. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ Larkin, Colin (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-85227-183-1. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ "37TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS (1994)". Grammy Awards. grammy.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
^ "DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER". jazzaspensnowmass.org. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
^ Yanow, Scott. "Keeping Tradition". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.

External links

Official website

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
unless stated otherwise.

As leader

Afro Blue (1974)
Dee Dee Bridgewater (Atlantic, 1976)
Just Family (1977)
Bad for Me (released 1979)
Dee Dee Bridgewater (Elektra, 1980)
Live in Paris (1986)
Victim of Love (released 1989)
In Montreux (1990)
Keeping Tradition (1992)
Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (1994)
Prelude to a Kiss: The Duke Ellington Album (1996)
Dear Ella (1997)
Live at Yoshi's (1998)
This Is New (2001)
J'ai deux amours (2005)
Red Earth (2006)
Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater (2009)
Dee Dee's Feathers (2015)
Memphis... Yes, I'm Ready (2016)