Pianist Ronnie Mathews

May 5, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

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Ronnie Mathews, a pianist who has contributed so much to jazz, is terminally ill. He is battling pancreatic cancer at First Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. WBGO's Sheila Anderson visited yesterday, as did Mathews' friend, the pianist Barry Harris. Harris brought a keyboard, and played some music for the ailing Mathews.

If you would like to leave a message for Ronnie Mathews, you may do so. His home number is 718.783.4073. Messages will be delivered to him in the hospital.
WBGO and the jazz community send Ronnie Mathews wishes for strength and peace during this difficult time.
-Josh

© 2008 WBGO

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Great Live Moments - Dee Dee Bridgewater

April 18, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.

Add new comment | Filed under: artistic career, celebration, collaboration, dee dee bridgewater, east coast, eve, grand hyatt, horace silver, Jazz Alive, Listening Post, Live Music, love, musicians, new year, npr, peace, red earth, reminder, sing song, toast of the nation, tribute to horace, wbgo

It has been amazing to know Dee Dee Bridgewater, and an honor to hear her read my name occasionally in the credits for JazzSet. And what an artistic career! Her latest recording, "Red Earth," a collaboration with Malian musicians, is just another reminder of how truly hip she is.
Long before she was the host of NPR's JazzSet (a program lovingly produced here at WBGO), Dee Dee Bridgewater was a part of our annual New Year's Eve coast-to-coast celebration, Toast of the Nation. From the ballroom at the Grand Hyatt in New York, Bridgewater greeted 1996 on the East Coast with music from her then recent recording, Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver.

Listen to Dee Dee Bridgewater sing "Song for My Father," from the WBGO Archives.
-Josh

© 2008 WBGO

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