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Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Tony Award Winner and Host of NPR's Syndicated Radio show "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater". She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, Denise was exposed to jazz early on.

Yul Emir AKA Yul Emirali is a London based piano/keyboard player who has been playing for around 26 years. See him performing live in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-aSaxM_kU.
He has developed a compositional style and improvisational jazz piano style by doodling for long periods on a keyboard and playing with many people. This style continues to develop as he doodles and plays, producing fecund wet patches, which at times can produce some extremely undesirable moments.

Rudder’s radical live music experience is the most exciting to hit the scene in a decade; while groups such as Medeski, Martin and Wood are considered their colleagues, the moment the listener catches their infectious energy, it’s clear that Rudder is the new standard streaking through the industry. Defunking the scene of its tired and sloshy vibe, they feed the intense craving for organic and phenomenal groove experience.