JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater is the jazz lover's ears and eyes on the world of live music. The Grammy and Tony Award winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater takes listeners to stages coast to coast and beyond for sets from the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, Carnegie Hall, festivals from Monterey to Montreal to Marciac in France. Closer to home, JazzSet drops in at nightclubs, campuses and neighborhoods for quality live jazz.
JazzSet brings you CD quality recordings of up-to-date sets from the artists whose CD's are being played on NPR stations across the country. Recent performers include the Count Basie Orchestra, Jazz Journalists Association Musician of the Year Dave Holland, Regina Carter and Kenny Barron at Monterey, poet and pianist Patricia Barber, Cuban piano great Chucho Valdes, Jon Faddis and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson, the Wynton Marsalis Septet, the New Orleans/klezmer/Ellington blend of Ted Nash and Odeon.
