Known for her thoughtful and illuminating tributes to jazz greats, such as her nuanced version of Billie Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache", Dee Dee Bridgewater also explores jazz roots on a global scale. Balafon marimba and ngoni guitar support her on the 2007 Afro-jazz album Red Earth: A Malian Journey, and the Crescent City seems to have shown up for "New Orleans", from 2015's Dee Dee's Feathers.