Baby Dee – Goes Down To Amsterdam (2011)

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The haunting and comical charm of Montreal born Baby Dee is showcased perfectly on live album Baby Dee Goes Down To Amsterdam. This follow up to Regifted Light, released in March, collects together some of Baby Dee’s finest songs and allows the listener to hear them as new, adapted and reinvigorated live on the stage of renowned Amsterdam jazz club Bimhuis.
The two disc album opens with applause from the audience followed by Dee’s first quip of the evening “Aren’t you nice to be clapping for me when I haven’t even done anything yet?” which nicely leads into opening track The Robin’s Tiny Throat, a powerfully sombre song seeing Dee solo at the harp, allowing her voice to appear both vulnerable and stentorian from one bar to another. Love’s Small Song and Book Of Songs For Anne-Marie follow a similar vein, with strings added to the arrangement, before Dee shifts to the piano on Lilacs. Throughout, Dee plays her instruments with flawless energy, accompanying her vocal pushes and pulls in perfect momentum.