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Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer. She won a Grammy Award twice and a Tony Award once. She is the host of NPR's Syndicated Radio show "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater" and a U.S. Ambassador to the FAO. Bridgewater was born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis and grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, which introduced her to jazz at an early age. At the age of sixteen she was a member of a rhythm ́n ́blues trio, and sang in clubs in Michigan. At the age of eighteen, she attended Michigan State University, before attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With her jazz band she toured the Soviet Union in 1969. The following year she met trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater and married. The couple moved to New York, where Cecil joined Horace Silver's band. In the early seventies, Dee Dee Bridgewater was the vocalist of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. This marked the beginning of her jazz career, and she played with many great jazz musicians of her time, including Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon and Max Roach. In 1974, her first solo album Afro Blue was released and she played the role of Glinda the Good Witch in the musical The Wiz on Broadway, for which she received a Tony Award. In the years that followed, Bridgewater could regularly be seen and heard in several major American musicals. After her French tour in 1984, she moved to Paris in 1986. In that year she played Billie Holiday in the production Lady Day. At the end of the eighties she exchanged the musical world for jazz. She gave concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1990, and in 1994 she was able to realize her long-cherished dream of working with Horace Silver. In 1994 Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver was released. With her 1997 tribute album to Ella Fitzgerald, Dear Ella Bridgewater won a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocalist Album in 1998, while her 1998 album, Live at Yoshi's earned her a Grammy nomination. From 2000 onwards, Bridgewater immersed himself in the works of Kurt Weill, resulting in the album This is New 2002. Her subsequent album J'ai Deux Amour from 2005 is a homage to the French chanson. Her album Red Earth, released in 2007, is based on African themes and was created in collaboration with Malian musicians. In 1992, Bridgewater guest-starred in the American television series Highlander (episode 'The Beast Below'). Ray Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American jazz bassist. He has played with greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra and Oscar Peterson. Brown began piano lessons at the age of eight. Then he wanted to switch to the trombone but he didn't have the money for that. Because in his school orchestra
