Live at Yoshi's (2000)

About this title: 13 years after her prior in-performance release Live in Paris, Bridgewater has not so much matured or refined her approach as she has gotten bolder. This CD was recorded on what would have been her idol Ella Fitzgerald's 80th birthday weekend at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. She scats in the style of Fitzgerald on most of these numbers -- not quite in the higher range, but comfortably in the middle -- while also displaying some of Sarah Vaughan's more deeply soulful traits. It's a combination of the two, with a little bawdiness for spice, that has made Bridgewater a prime purveyor of excitable jazz ... read more

Tracks:

1. Undecided [Robin/Shavers]
2. (I'd Like to Get You on A) Slow Boat to China [Loesser]
3. Stairway to the Stars [Parish/Malneck/Sign]
4. What a Little Moonlight Can Do [Woods]
5. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine [Brown]
6. Midnight Sun [Mercer/Burke/Hampto]
7. Cherokee [Noble]
8. Love for Sale [Porter]
9. Cotton Tail [Ellington]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.