Dee Dee Bridgewater. Julian Joseph is joined by this popular American singer whose career in jazz started as guest vocalist with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis orchestra in the seventies. She talks about her subsequent work in musicals, her series of pop albums for Elektra and her eventual return tojazz and her move to
Paris. There she formed a group with pianist Thierry Eliaz and drummer Andre Ceccarelli , both of whom feature on her most recent album This is New, a collection of Kurt Weill songs arranged by Cecil Bridgewater.
