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 ...

Tribute shows honoring the music and memory of a legendary performer can be deadly affairs, as any number of recent shows have proven. The great Eartha Kitt did all she could to breathe life into ...

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 ...

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 not ...

It’s his take on “What A Difference A Day Makes,” which was popularized by Dinah Washington in the ’50s and originally written in Spanish by Mexican songwriter María Grever in the ’30s ...

Another name who got her big break through a vocal competition was the dynamic Dinah Washington - and she busted into the Chicago scene after making her debut at the Regal Theater. That one ...