Strange Fruit", stripped down and taken slow, like almost everything here, features a beguiling jazzy break embroidered with silvery piano notes from Edsel Gomez, who also provides the elegant arrangements. 　　You will never listen to Billie Holidays songs sung in such a distinctive fashion as lyrical, refreshing and intense as on this one.Dee Dee Bridgewater is backed by a fantastic band, including bassist Christian McBride, saxophonist/flutist/bass clarinetist James Carter, and drummer Lewis Nash There is poise and polish here : the 'real' instrumentation is excellent and her sultry vocals interpretations are breathtaking. 　　It's nice and different to hear Dee Dee jumping and scatting in her fresh and innovatively speedy "All Of Me". Actually, on this one, she sounds more like Ella Fitzgerald than Lady Day... 　　This is dream, gently swaying and swinging, contemporary jazz music, which has an obvious understated allure all of its own.