NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater with bandleader and trumpeter Sean Jones and the NYO Jazz All-Star Big Band. The program consists of:
Feldman | Fitzgerald ~ “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (arr. Slide Hampton)
Santamaría ~ “Afro Blue” (arr. John Clayton)
Ellington ~ “Cotton Tail” (arr. Slide Hampton)
Newley | Bricusse ~ “Feeling Good / I Got You (I Feel Good)” (arr. Emily L. Fredrickson)
John Beasley ~ “Fête dans la tête” (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Holiday | Herzog Jr. ~ “God Bless the Child” (arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater)
Higginbotham | Drake | Fisher ~ “Good Morning Heartache” (arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater)
John Clayton ~ “I Be Serious ‘Bout Dem Blues”
Nichols | Holiday ~ “Lady Sings the Blues” (arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater)
Bley ~ “Lawns” (arr. Javier Nero)
Lee | Goodman ~ “Let the Good Times Roll” (arr. Frank Foster)
Sean Jones ~ “Touch and Go” (arr. Dave Morgan)