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JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater brings you music in performance, sweet and hot, every week. With her fine, friendly voice, Grammy and Tony Award-winning host Dee Dee Bridgewater introduces sets from locales like Kennedy Center Jazz in Washington DC, festivals from North Sea to Monterey, and top clubs like Jazz Standard in New York.

JazzSet's recordings capture the legends, today's top bands, and promising new talent. Occasionally, JazzSet dips into the archives and Dee Dee shares a moment that's too good not to share.

Mar 2 Discovery Artists: Alfredo Rodriguez Trio and Christie Dashiell Quartet at the KC Jazz Club in Washington, DC
Mar 9 Gergory Porter at The Strings of Autumn in Prage, October, 2012
Mar 16 Charles Lloyd 75th Birthday: Sangam at Newport
Mar 23 Chris Lightcap and Bigmouth at Kuumbwa Jazz: Lost and Found in New York
Mar 30 Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour - the 55th Anniversary Celebration at the Kennedy Center

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Steve Wilson With Strings On JazzSet

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Steve Wilson (center) brought a quartet and a string section to the Kennedy Center to pay tribute to the Charlie Parker With Strings LP.

By editor

Originally published on Wed December 12, 2012 12:40 pm

To inaugurate the 2011-12 jazz season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., director of jazz Kevin Struthers wanted something special and different.

3:20 pm

Thu January 19, 2012

Mark Turner Quartet On JazzSet

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Mark Turner (left) told JazzSet, "I consider myself an economical player, not at the top of my voice on every song no matter what, and Paul [Motian] is like that."

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Mark Turner (left) and Paul Motian perform at the Village Vanguard.

By Becca Pulliam

Mark Turner was born in Ohio in 1965, and grew up in Southern California. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, then moved to New York and worked in the huge jazz department of the downtown Tower Records. Great jazz was always playing at Tower, even late at night — it was a hangout — with the current album displayed next to the cash register.

3:03 pm

Fri January 13, 2012

A Tribute To Abbey Lincoln On JazzSet

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Backstage at the Kennedy Center tribute concert to Abbey Lincoln, left to right: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves.

By editor

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 8:24 am

Anna Marie Wooldridge, Abbey Lincoln, Aminata Moseka: singer, actress, composer, militant. They are all one woman.

3:25 pm

Thu December 8, 2011

Cyrus Chestnut, Benny Green And More On JazzSet

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Cyrus Chestnut.

By Becca Pulliam

We return to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center for a New Year's Eve set with Cyrus Chestnut and Benny Green on two pianos, joined by Nicholas Payton on trumpet and Jimmy Heath on tenor, with the excellent rhythm section of Dezron Douglas on bass and Willie Jones III on drums.

2:59 pm

Thu December 1, 2011

Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra Of New York On JazzSet

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Jon Faddis.

By editor

Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 7:56 pm

Young Jon Faddis, born in 1953, learned every note Dizzy Gillespie ever recorded. Then Faddis found Gillespie and reacquainted the older trumpeter with some of his own best work. Their relationship became a close mentorship in jazz, maybe the closest. Now, Faddis advances the Gillespie style — fast, syncopated, chromatic, teasing, conversing, climbing step by step (sometimes tacking crosswise), racing up and down the hills, having serious fun.

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