Anita Baker To Headline The New Orleans Jazz Fest

Singing Vince Gill's "Little Liza Jane" at the dinner, Baker was backed by a cohort of Nashville players. Inspired by their performance, she's invited the "badass Nashville cats," as she terms them, to record with her this month alongside NYC and LA session musicians.

The album will also include Baker's collaboration with Snoop Dogg on a "big, lush" version of Curtis Mayfield's "Give You My Love" that she promises "is going to raise eyebrows." The rest of the album will be original material.

Baker is enthusiastic about the upcoming sessions. "I'm turning it up in a lot of ways," she says

Over 75,000 fans enjoyed her 2009 headlining performances at the Essence Festival (New Orleans), Macy's Music Cincinnati and Mt. Diablo Festival in San Francisco, and now they will have the chance to see Anita Baker mix it up live at 5:25 p.m. on Sunday April 25th on JazzFest's Congo Square "My Louisiana" Stage. And what will Ms. Baker play at JazzFest? "As always, the audience is in charge of the set list, kind of like being at a Grateful Dead show" the star says with a laugh.


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