Dee Dee Bridgewater with Theo Crocker’s DVRK FUNK Band
Once Bridgewater joined in with Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro Blue,” the group coalesced in a big way.
Once Bridgewater joined in with Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro Blue,” the group coalesced in a big way.
I first saw veteran St. Louis actor/director Chris Limber's (pictured) loving and literate tribute to the hipster attitude of the Beat Generation last summer at the St. Lou Fringe Festival.
Natalie Douglas is the perfect cabaret performer to do justice to four fabulous female vocalists—Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln—all of whom knew, loved and admired each other.
Channeling jazz icon Billie Holiday in Lady Day at the Emerson Bar & Grill, Audra McDonald does not hit a false note in this dramatic lament of the last days of a lost lady.