Not long before her death last summer, jazz vocalist and composer Abbey Lincoln asked singer Dee Dee Bridgewater to keep her music alive. She didn’t have to ask twice.

Indeed, Bridgewater couldn’t have appeared more committed to the cause at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Friday night, during the 16th edition of the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. The recipient of the event’s annual award for achievement in jazz, Bridgewater hosted the tribute with charm and energy, sharing the stage with vocalists Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson in a program devoted almost exclusively to Lincoln’s songbook. Read complete story from washingtonpost.com.