Dee Dee Bridgewater: Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

The year was 1997, and this unprecedented performance took place just before the release of Dee Dee Bridgewater's album Dear Ella. The tribute album to Ella, recorded a year after her death, quickly became the most acclaimed record of all time: it won a Grammy Award for being the best jazz vocal album and for Slide Hampton's rearrangements of Duke Ellington's 'Cotton Tail', which was an instant hit from the very first notes.