Afro Blue (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)

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Afro Blue
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Studio album by
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Released1974
Recorded10, 12–14 March 1974
StudioAOI Studios, Tokyo
Genre Jazz
Length40:39
Label Trio Records PA-7095
Producer Takao Ishizuka
Dee Dee Bridgewater chronology
Afro Blue
(1974)		 Dee Dee Bridgewater
(1976)
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Afro Blue is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. The record was released in Japan in 1974, when she was 23, via Trio Records label. [4] The album was recorded in Tokyo with a quintet of musicians including brothers Ron and Cecil Bridgwater. [5]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Afro Blue" Mongo Santamaria, Oscar Brown, Jr. 8:27
2."Love Vibrations" Horace Silver 5:55
3."Everyday I Have the Blues / Stormy Monday Blues" Peter Chatman 8:09
4."Little B's Poem" Bobby Hutcherson 3:08
5."Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" Burt Bacharach, Hal David 4:38
6."Love from the Sun"Richard Clay5:34
7."People Make the World Go Around"Richard Clay4:48
Total length:40:39

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Dee Dee Bridgewater: Afro Blue". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 734. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 116. ISBN   978-1-85227-183-1 . Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Dee Dee Bridgewater – Afro Blue". Discogs . discogs.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Dee Dee Bridgewater – 1974 – Afro Blue". funkmysoul.gr. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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