via The Hollywood Times
“I am a jazz singer, that’s in my blood. I thought an art form was dying and chose to dedicate myself to it.”
— Dee Dee Bridgewater on Returning to Her Roots as a Jazz Singer
Although nobody was smoking cigarettes, pouring red wine from decanters, or sipping whiskey from highball glasses at Royce Hall on Friday night, it felt like all this and more should be happening. After all, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Bill Charlap transported the audience back to the jazz age of Duke Ellington and Cole Porter when the music was wild, and the people were refined.
Indeed, it was a magical night of music that is so rarely heard, and it felt a bit like watching a fading flower, wanting desperately to capture its beauty and hold onto it forever. The Center for the Art of Performance UCLA (CAP UCLA) remains one of the bastions of championing the finest cultural offerings in Los Angeles.