Results for "Dinah Washington"

AllAboutJazz-New York August 2009 Issue Now Available!

August 1, 2009

One of the more compelling facets of jazz as a musical form is the pliability of its practitioners. Unlike most classical musicians who play scores written for them or rockers who are serial monogamists when it comes to bands, jazz players, for reasons both artistic and economic, usually exist simultaneously as leaders and sidemen. Some start ...

300 Graves Tampered with at Historic Cemetery

July 9, 2009

As frantic relatives of the deceased descended on the Burr Oak Cemetery the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till, blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington investigators said it could be months before they fully understand what took place. Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Melissa Morgan: Until I Met You

by Woodrow Wilkins
April 21, 2009

Many young jazz vocalists reach into the book of standards for their first recording. Melissa Morgan follows the tradition, but in a way that works to her advantage. Morgan, 29, grew up on Teaneck, N.J. She became a jazz fan upon hearing her grandmother's old records--the music of such inspirational vocalists as Nancy Wilson, ...

What a Difference a Day Makes / Makin' Whoopee

Featuring the music of Dinah Washington
Duration: 4:58
April 9, 2009

The UK Debut of Paris Singing Star China Moses

March 24, 2009

China's UK debut takes place at Ronnie Scott's club, Soho on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 April. Daughter of jazz superstar Dee Dee Bridgewater, China has created a tribute show to the late Dinah Washington which has become a huge success in France and has just been released there as a CD on EMI/Blue Note. China, ...

La Reine - The Queen 1943 - 1957

By Dinah Washington

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2008

Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington

By Dinah Washington

Label: El Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Fat Daddy; Go Pretty Daddy; TV Is The Thing; Feel Like I Wanna Cry; Lean Baby; Never Never; I Ain't Going To Cry No More; Am I Blue?; My Man's An Undertaker; Short John; Our Love Is Here To Stay; One Arabian Night; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart; A Foggy Day; No No No (You Can't Love Two); What A Great Sensation; If It's The Last Thing I Do; I've Got You Under My Skin; Darn That Dream; Blue Gardenia; I Diddle; Wasn't It?

Music for Lovers

By Dinah Washington

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Lover Man; For All We Know; Romance in the Dark; I Didn't Know About You; You're a Sweetheart; Blue Gardenia; I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life; The Good Life; That Old Feeling; If It's the Last Thing I Do; He's My Guy; I'll Never Stop Loving You.