Keeping Tradition is a studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater.

The album was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.

[5] Keeping Tradition opens a series of her critically acclaimed titles, of which all but one, including her wildly successful double Grammy Award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Dear Ella, have received Grammy nominations.

[6] Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "After performing a wide variety of music (much of it commercial) for 15 years, in the mid-'80s Dee Dee Bridgewater returned to jazz...

This set with her regular French quartet has Bridgewater exploring and swinging some of her favorite standards...