Joey Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh wants Johnny Depp to play Dee Dee Ramone in the film adaptation of his new book "I Slept With Johnny Ramone."...

A quarter-century ago, Dee Dee Bridgewater paid homage to the sound and style of Billie Holiday with the acclaimed stage production Lady Day , based on Holiday’s autobiography. Since she was actually portraying Holiday, it was necessary for Bridgewater to be vocally imitative—and what a fine mimic she was. Now, with Bridgewater having advanced from Holiday pupil to full-fledged peer, d...

Dee Dee Bellson, 49, the daughter of Broadway entertainer and singer Pearl Bailey and jazz drummer Louie Bellson who went on to craft her own singing career, died July 4 at her home in Charlottesville, Va., after a heart attack. Bailey and Louis Bellson married in London in 1952 and later adopted two children, Dee Dee and Tony. The family settled in Northridge...

It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain with drugs and song lyrics on her way to self destruction in 1959. In her greatness, Billie was as devastating and as devastated as a summer with no water. And yet her magnetism, her very soul picking through her vocal chords and reaching out to the world, her good...

For her latest recording, Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, Bridgewater honors an iconic jazz figure, Billie Holiday

Who is that singer? She's having fun with the Michigan State University Jazz Orchestra under director Rodney Whitaker at the Detroit Jazz Festival. After she sings, Dee Dee Bridgewater introduces the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble and Bennie Maupin's Dolphyana, free and outdoors in downtown Detroit on Labor Day Weekend 2009.

When Dee Dee Bridgewater stepped on Malian soil, it was red, just like the ground in Memphis, her birthplace. People were friendly, even familial, and in a tiny Bamako cabaret, Bridgewater jumped onstage and started to sing. She brings that joy to the Kennedy Center in her Grammy-nominated Red Earth: A Malian Journey.

August 25, 2009 — Calling all Jo Dee Messina fans: Jo Dee wants to invite you into her music room. Not exactly her home music room, but a stage modeled after it.

dee dee // dum dum girls Here's an early xmas gift from Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles, in the form of this sweet, fuzzed-out holiday love song, on which Dee Dee makes like a modern day Darlene Love: mp3: crocodiles & dum dum girls :: merry christmas baby (please don't die) [via stereogum] ****** click through for more...

Today's awesome collaboration announcement: Danger Mouse and the Shins' James Mercer. [NME] Joe Jonas says he's too busy to star in the film 'Valentine's Day.' Those eyebrows don't tweeze themselves, you know. [Angry Ape] Dee Dee Ramone used to be "fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh funky." [Fark] When your live show setup looks like an Olympics opening ceremony, it's kind...