Dee Dee Bridgewater - Red Earth
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Music CD Cover Artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-08-28 Music Label: Emarcy / Umgd Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Red Earth Album
Free Music Review: A Minor Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
I hadn't gotten even halfway through this c.d. on first listen, before I had the distinct first impression that this is a masterpiece.
After a few complete listens, I'll temper my enthusiasm, but only slightly. I mean, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," Charles Mingus' "Let My Children Hear Music," and Duke Ellington's "In a Mellow Tone" are masterpieces, after all. But this is at the least a minor masterpiece. It also is one of the best vocal jazz c.d.'s of 2007 and quite possibly the best, and a c.d. which absolutely, positively deserves a Grammy nomination.
It also, IMO, is Dee Dee Bridgewater's career highlight. I loved her 2005 release, "Jai Deux Amours." In retrospect, however, that c.d. merely hinted at the greatness of this one. It's like she ripped the top off of the creative bottle, and what the genie has wrought is a wonderment to behold.
This c.d. is a testament to the human condition. The call and response of "Mama Don't Ever Go Away (Mama Digna Sara Ye)" or "Children Go 'Round (Demissenw)", for example, should play as well in Mali as in Manhattan--or Manitoba, for that matter.
But even more basically, this c.d. is to jazz as Paul Simon's "Graceland" is to pop. Which is to say, I cannot think of a better meld of American jazz to African music (including Dizzy Gillespie's "Kush"!). The rhythms throughout are stunning. With a percussion section of 5 or 6 African instruments throughout played by native Malians, and with jagged contrapuntal rhythms over 9/8, 7/8 and 8/8 (yes, "Long Time Ago" is in 8/8--not 4/4, not cut time) meters, this c.d. never ceases to fascinate metrically. And the Malian background vocals sound like the cultural precursor to American inner-city rap.
On first listen, though, I wondered whether the decision to include Nina Simone's "Four Women" and Eugene McDaniel's "Compared to What" was such a good idea. I thought both of these great songs were uniquely American. But as I think more about it, I conclude to the contrary. They may both have been borne of American experience; but outrage over the abuses of slavery and outrage over a morally crumbling society from the government down are hardly unique American commodities. (Recall apartheid, Idi Amin, the Tsutsi's, or Darfur, anyone?) No, these songs work--in fact, "Compared to What" makes a terrific exclamation point ending to a terrific album.
Don't buy this c.d.--buy two copies. One for you and one for a friend who cares about jazz. Your friend will forever thank you. RC