DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Afro Blue JAPAN lp Jazz AUTOGRAPHED

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75

Rare Signed 1974 JAPAN Issue Jazz Vocals lp ----- DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER ----- "Afro Blue" ----- on TRIO Records (PA-7095), Original Japanese Issue - Black, White and Grayish Brown Label design. Includes Original Japanese / English Lyric / info INSERT. Beautiful early 70s Classic with quartet backdrop, title track uses an array of African percussion instruments - sounds like Art Ensemble Of Chicago!

Important Note: AUTOGRAPHED on back cover by Trumpet Player CECIL BRIDGEWATER - signature is quite small and light (in pen).

COVER: VG++ condition - minor wear, address stkr obc, small writing obc

VINYL: VG++ to EX condition - quite clean, a few very light marks

"Afro Blue, a small group record made in 1974 near the end of her tenure with the Jones/Lewis Orchestra. On Afro Blue, you can hear Bridgewater's present style already firmly in place including the brash, aggressive attack on the uptempo numbers and the dreamy, floating quality of her ballads."

"One of the best jazz singers of her generation, Dee Dee Bridgewater (who was married to trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater in the early '70s) had to move to France to find herself. She performed in Michigan during the 1960s and toured the Soviet Union in 1969 with the University of Illinois Big Band. She sang with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra (1972-1974) and appeared in the Broadway musical The Wiz (1974-1976)."

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