Known as the Queen of the Blues or Queen of the Juke Boxes, Dinah Washington rode her voice from her gospel roots through the blues, jazz and into lushly orchestrated pop ballads. It was this ...

The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center (CAC) is located in the former ... Dinah Washington was a jazz and blues vocalist and pianist born in Tuscaloosa. Nicknamed the "Queen of Blues ...

The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center (CAC) is located in the former ... Dinah Washington was a jazz and blues vocalist and pianist born in Tuscaloosa. Nicknamed the "Queen of Blues ...

Her most memorable jazz recording is with Clifford Brown; the classic Dinah Jams from 1955. After the unexpected commercial success of "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes," in 1959, which marked Washington ...

the hard-forged swing of Dinah Washington or the hearty exuberance of Big Maybelle, or even, amazingly, the funky fury of Chuck Berry (who, doing “Sweet Little Sixteen” with a jazz group that ...

But the multitalented star has another persona as well--one in which she portrays the great jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington. Playing the lead in the musical “Dinah Was,” Freeman was so ...

Writer Nadine Cohodas celebrates the life of the Alabama-born Dinah Washington. She would have turned 80 on August 29. The crossover jazz, blues and light pop star is famous for the Grammy-winning ...

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 ...

No singer since has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and pluck. December 3, 2010 • Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead picks CDs, books and a DVD for the jazz lover on ...

Of all the many female jazz singers, Dinah Washington remains the most contemporary. Her voice was always cocked and loaded, her phrasing was akin to the sound of a getaway car, and her attitude told ...