Live at Yoshi's

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Dear Ella
Live album by Dee Dee Bridgewater
Released	February 15, 2000
Recorded	April 25-28, 1998
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:31
Label	Verve Records
Dee Dee Bridgewater chronology
Dear Ella (1997)	Live at Yoshi's (1998)	This is New (1998)

Live at Yoshi's is a live 1998 (see 1998 in music) album by the American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater.

Bridgewater sings several songs from her last album Dear Ella, a tribute to the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who had died a year previously, and this live album was recorded on what would have been Ella's 81st birthday.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Undecided" (Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 8:57
2. "(I'd Like to Get You on A) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:57
3. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry Woods) – 5:13
4. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 4:10
5. "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" (James Brown) – 2:32
6. "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 7:22
7. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 7:08
8. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 6:14
9. "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 9:42

[edit] Personnel

Recorded April 25-28, 1998, in San Francisco:

• Dee Dee Bridgewater - Vocals
• Thierry Eliez - hammond organ, piano
• Thomas Bramerie - double bass
• Ali Muhammed Jackson - percussion, drums