Dinah Washington (1924-1963): Blues For A Day - Jazz Reference

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  • Label: Dreyfus, 1945-51
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  • Order number: 6474164
  • Release date: 11.11.2002
  1. 1 New blow top blues Start
  2. 2 It isn't fair Start
  3. 3 Fine fine daddy Start
  4. 4 Since I fell for you Start
  5. 5 Cold cold heart Start
  6. 6 Fast movin' mama Start
  7. 7 Blues for a day Start
  8. 8 Saturday night Start
  9. 9 Long John blues Start
  10. 10 Just one more chance Start
  11. 11 If you don't believe I'm leavin' Start
  12. 12 Shuckin' and jivin' Start
  13. 13 Record ban blues Start
  14. 14 Richest guy in the graveyard Start
  15. 15 I'm a fool to want you Start
  16. 16 The man I love Start
  17. 17 Embraceable you Start
  18. 18 Wise woman blues Start
  19. 19 I can't started Start
  20. 20 A slick chick Start
  21. 21 Blow top blues Start
  22. 22 Rich man's blues Start
  23. 23 Juice head man of mine Start
*** 24 Bit digitally remastered
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Today she has been rather forgotten. And yet Ruth Jones, renamed Dinah Washington by one of her most famous employers, Lionel Hampton, was a first-rate star in the kingdom of jazz singers from the late forties until her untimely death in 1963, not yet forty years of age. She was the inspiring force of many of her soul sisters engaged in the zestful art of rhythm and blues: indeed the likes of Diana Ross, Esther Phillips and others were influenced by her. No doubt as Dinah used her mighty talent and her flexible, pungent voice for the blues, acting as the respectful heiress of ‘Empress’ Bessie Smith, the legendary pioneer of the genre. Blues that Dinah even instils in songs which don’t follow its conventional strict canons. With a repertory which usually sang of love and its perils, sometimes assisted by very mischievous double meanings (Long John Blues), Dinah liked to be surrounded by jazzmen who were great blues players; track after track, we find trumpeter Cootie Williams, saxophonists Lucky Thompson and Arnett Cobb, vibraphonists Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson and bassist Charles Mingus. Dinah still remains Queen of the Blues – undisputed and unreplaced.

Press comments

H. Thomas in stereoplay 2 / 03: "Umgeben von zahlreichen Jazzstars wie Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Lucky Thompson, Arnette Cobb oder Cootie Williams, läuft Dinah Washington in jedem der 22 Tracks zur Hochform auf."

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