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 Dinah Washington was ...

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Washington, who died in 1963, was born in Alabama and got her start singing in church. Throughout her relatively short, two-decade career, she boasted — and proved — that she could sing anything.

This music, from the final stage of Dinah Washington's short and turbulent life, is a perfect snapshot of all she was in performance -- the brash belter, claiming and proclaiming her measure of fun ...

Ted Ono's Baldwin Street Music has rescued Dinah Washington's live performances from New York's Birdland, Royal Roost and Basin Street. There are also a couple of cuts from the soundtrack of Harlem ...

No one knows exactly what made the celebrated Lionel Hampton go down the street after a gig to check out an 18-year-old singer named Ruth Jones. Hampton was playing Chicago's Regal Theater. Jones was ...

August 25, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — Some songs don’t just land—they arrive with a little starlight on their shoulders. Ledisi’s radiant take on “What a Dif or.ference a Day Made” is one of ...

On Aug. 29, 2024, 11 years since the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center opened, and 100 years since the "Queen of the Blues" was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, an exhibit of photos and ...