Pinecrest Gardens presents "Banyan Bowl Live" featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater

Pinecrest Gardens presents “Banyan Bowl Live” featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater

WHAT: Faced with canceling their all-star jazz series due to COVID-19, the village of Pinecrest, FL, has reimagined it as a livestream world-wide event and fundraiser for both Pinecrest Gardens and World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit founded by acclaimed international Chef José Andrés, feeding victims and medical personnel nationwide. The full series will feature Jon Secada, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Grace Kelly, Joey Alexander, and Manhattan Transfer. Tickets are $15 USD each or $87 for the entire series and may be purchased at https://jazzaid.eduvision.tv/liveevents

WHO: Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater has ascended to the upper echelon of vocalists, putting her unique spin on standards, as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics.

WHERE: Online only at https://jazzaid.eduvision.tv/liveevents

WHEN: Saturday, November 14, at 8:00 PM (20:00) USA Eastern Time

DETAILS: Ever the fearless voyager, explorer, pioneer and keeper of tradition, the three-time Grammy-winner recently won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee.

Bridgewater’s career has always bridged musical genres. She earned her first professional experience as a member of the legendary Thad Jones/Mel Louis Big Band, and throughout the 70s she performed with such jazz notables as Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie. After a foray into the pop world during the
1980s, she relocated to Paris and began to turn her attention back to Jazz. All but one of her CD’s, including her wildly successful double Grammy Award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Dear Ella, have received Grammy nominations. Bridgewater is also the recipient of an NEA Jazz Masters Fellows Award with honors bestowed at the Kennedy Center.

Hosted by Tito Puente, Jr, Billboard Music Award winner, & Ceci Velasco, Executive Director of Miami Beach’s Ocean Drive Association. Music courtesy of KCC Productions.