title: Afro Blue (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)
text: # Afro Blue (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)
  
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  Afro Blue is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. The record was released in Japan in 1974, when she was 23, via Trio Records label. The album was recorded in Tokyo with a quintet of musicians including brothers Ron and Cecil Bridgwater.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Band
  
  * Dee Dee Bridgewater – vocals
  * George Mraz – bass
  * Motohiko Hino – drums, bells
  * Roland Hanna – piano
  * Ron Bridgewater – tenor saxophone, cowbell, African castanets, vibra-clap
  * Cecil Bridgewater – trumpet, kalimba
  
  Production
  
  * Takao Ishizuka – producer
  * Kiyoshi Koyama – liner notes
  * Y. Kannari – recording, mixing
  * M. Ohkawa – recording, mixing
  