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: Music for Lovers album review by Chris M. Slawecki, published on February 13, 2007. ... Dinah Washington's biting, blues-smoked phrasing is often cited as the primordial ground from ...

Meshell Ndegeocello, Akiko Tsuruga, Patricia Brennan, Caity Gyorgy, Celebrating Dinah Washington (100!), Lyricist Carolyn Leigh, Alice Coltrane & More. ... Happy listening and please support the ...

Mary J. Blige played Dinah Washington in ‘Respect’ Dinah Washington rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s. She was a singer known for several genres including blues, jazz, and R&B.

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 ...

Freeman--whose first recording, released in 1999, was “A Tribute To Dinah Washington”--would love to do “Dinah Was” again in the Los Angeles area, preferably at a large venue.

On Aug. 29, 2024, 11 years since the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center opened, ... "A Centennial Celebration to a Life in Music" remains on display through Sept. 26 at the center, ...

Dinah Washington packed several lifetimes into her 39years.In her book “Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington,” Nadine Cohodas captures the triumphs and tragedy of a singer who ...

QUEEN: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington Nadine Cohodas, . . Pantheon, $28.50 (576pp) ISBN 978-0-375-42148-8 ...

Deborah Cox Takes on Dinah Washington Singer Deborah Cox's new album, Destination Moon, pays tribute to the late jazz singer Dinah Washington. She talks about her leap from R&B to jazz. Music News ...

Jazz pianist Chris Anderson, whose sophisticated harmonies earned him prestige in his field, has died in New York at the age of 81. Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was a ...