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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, her weight and even her fans. But when she sang, nothing else… ...