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Pouring old wine into new bottles has become a specialty of vocalist China Moses and Pianist/Arranger Raphael Lemonnier. Rejuvenating classics with a pint of spirited innovation is a landmark of the duet, who, for their first encounter revisited the best of Dinah Washington, This One's for Dinah. For their second collaboration they pay tribute to great dames of blues and soul, and reexamine how 'blues' can be so jazzy. As such, Crazy Blues is unchained and blurs the dividing line ...

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Album Review

China Moses & Raphael Lemonnier: This One's For Dinah

Read "This One's For Dinah" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
May 9, 2009

Once upon a time, the Queen of the Blues was visited in her dressing room backstage by a woman and her baby daughter. The Queen of the Blues picked up the baby, looked at her and said, “She's gonna be a singer. She's definitely gonna be a singer." The prediction came true. The Queen was Dinah Washington; the baby, Dee Dee Bridgewater. Many years passed. Bridgewater married film director Otis Moses and had a daughter of her ...

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Profile

China Moses: Bringing Back the Good Times

by Chris Mosey
May 1, 2009

China Moses is dedicating her singing career to blowing away the notion that women jazz singers in the present age have to be white and wispy and sing songs that are studiously liberated and sexless. She was born in Los Angeles in 1978, daughter of jazz doyenne Dee Dee Bridgewater and her second husband, Gilbert Moses, a pioneer of African American theater and director of the 1974 cult blaxploitation movie Willie Dynamite. “Dad christened ...