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Dida Pelled: Blues in the Night

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 31, 2026

Dida Pelled's I Wish You Would (La Reserve) is more than a love letter to the blues, a genre she returns to after the high bar she set with A Missing Shade of Blue (Red Records). It is the definitive statement of an artist whose signature lies in the irresistible contrast between the understated intimacy of ...

Article: Interview

Dida Pelled: Sultry Swing, Blissful Blues

by R.J. DeLuke
May 13, 2026

Jazz and blues have different feels and styles. There's plenty of room for an artist to explore possibilities therein, bringing along influences and preferences, creating a distinctive strain that leaves a delectable impression. An artist with her own compelling style exists in Brooklyn in the person of Dida Pelled, a guitarist, songwriter, and educator ...

Article: Liner Notes

Dida Pelled: A Missing Shade Of Blue

by Dan Bilawsky
March 6, 2023

In a way, A Missing Shade Of Blue is a throwback to an earlier era, when Grant Green, “Brother" Jack McDuff, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, and numerous others were bringing the guitar and organ together to create beautiful music for the people. Yet this record doesn't necessarily fit with the work of those artists. Why, ...

Album

A Missing Shade of Blue

By Dida Pelled

Label: Red Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Sundown; I Don’t Need No Doctor; When I Grow Too Old to Dream; Take These Chains from My Heart; Folsom Prison Blues; It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie; Glide On; A Little Walk on Jane Street; A Missing Shade of Blue; Blue Moon; Five Hundred Miles; Ultramarine; I’ll See you in My Dreams.

Article: Album Review

Dida Pelled: A Missing Shade of Blue

Read "A Missing Shade of Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 22, 2016

Guitarist and vocalist Dida Pelled previous Red Records release, Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings (Red Records, 2011) was one of my pics for Best-of-the-Year in 2011). That recording was so refreshingly organic that it has remained in my listening rotation since that time. Pelled snuck in a self-produced Modern Love Songs (2015) between Plays and Sings ...