As a child, Chicago jazz singer Dee Alexander learned to love the music of Dinah Washington, which her mother liked to play on Sundays as she did the ironing. Credit: Raymond Mays Dinah Washington ...

Cohodas has written Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1924, the former Ruth Lee Jones moved with her family to Chicago as a young girl. She considered the ...

Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear on the show by purchasing their music in this time of pandemic so they can continue to distract, comfort ... In this episode we celebrate ...

She was renamed Dinah Washington, and Hamp took her on the road ... And Duke Ellington: "He breathes romance through his music and his very being. Such a man is rare indeed." ...

Dinah Washington rose to fame in the 1950s and ... Washington had a feeling that Franklin was destined for success. According to music producer Quincy Jones, when Franklin was still young ...

Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson are two of jazz’s most iconic voices—but can you hear what sets them apart? In this video, we listen closely to both vocalists and explore the subtle and ...

Biographies about Washington include "Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington," a 2004 Pantheon publication, by Nadine Cohodas; and "Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington," a ...

"A Centennial Celebration to a Life in Music" remains on display through ... Aretha Franklin cut the album "Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington," and in 1993, the U.S. Postal Service ...

August 10, 2017 • With technical mastery and endless style, Washington never sang the same ... a book of Sonny Rollins photographs and music from the first season of the HBO series Treme.