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JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Sundays at Midnight

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

Latest Episodes
  • From a traditional blessing to a children's dance, hear a violin address the African diaspora — and a trumpet tell a bedtime story.
  • Recorded live at The Blue Whale in Los Angeles, the Grammy-winning pianist and his quartet make psychic connections to Freddie Hubbard via "Bolivia."
  • Jane Bunnett and Chihiro Yamanaka come to the Kennedy Center from Canada and Japan, respectively, and each has a compelling story.
  • Rene Marie, Allan Harris and Carla Cook are in sweet harmony with a message in this concert from the KC Jazz Club in Washington, D.C.
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson sing from the Abbey Lincoln songbook.
  • Marsalis' philosophy is that the music should evolve and be challenging, should center on the melody and convey emotions. Hear him bring his long-running quartet to the Napa Valley Opera House.
  • The trumpeter and the drummer each bring high-energy bands to the Detroit Jazz Festival.
  • At the annual Detroit Jazz Festival on Labor Day 2011, an amphitheater full of Motor City music lovers grooveswith the Kevin Eubanks Band — outdoors, free, and in Surround Sound on JazzSet.
  • Rosnes and Charlap just finished a six-concert season of Jazz in July at the 92Y in New York City. Hear the two-piano duo make a "unique sound that is the sum of both of us" at the Kennedy Center.
  • This is the set by Allison Miller and her Boom Tic Boom project that became the hit of the 2012 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. Players pair off and rejoin, chase one another and catch up.