Dinah Washington
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Biography
[Edit]Dinah Washington was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century — beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste. Her principal sin, apparently, was to cultivate a distinctive vocal style that was at home in all kinds of music, be it R&B, blues, jazz, middle of the road pop — and she probably would have made a fine gospel or country singer had she the time. Hers was a gritty, salty, high-pitched voice, marked by absolute clarity of diction and clipped, bluesy phrasing. Washington's personal life was turbulent, with seven marriages behind her, and her interpretations showed it, for she displayed a tough, totally unsentimental, yet still gripping hold on the universal subject of lost love. She has had a huge influence on R&B and jazz singers who have followed in her wake, notably Nancy Wilson, Esther Phillips, and Diane Schuur, and her music is abundantly available nowadays via the huge seven-volume series The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury.
Born Ruth Lee Jones, she moved to Chicago at age three and was raised in a world of gospel, playing the piano and directing her church choir. At 15, after winning an amateur contest at the Regal Theatre, she began performing in nightclubs as a pianist and singer, opening at the Garrick Bar in 1942. Talent manager Joe Glaser heard her there and recommended her to Lionel Hampton, who asked her to join his band. Hampton says that it was he who gave Ruth Jones the name Dinah Washington, although other sources claim it was Glaser or the manager of the Garrick Bar. In any case, she stayed with Hampton from 1943 to 1946 and made her recording debut for Keynote at the end of 1943 in a blues session organized by Leonard Feather with a sextet drawn from the Hampton band. With Feather's "Evil Gal Blues" as her first hit, the records took off, and by the time she left Hampton to go solo, Washington was already an R&B headliner. Signing with the young Mercury label, Washington produced an enviable string of Top Ten hits on the R&B charts from 1948 to 1955, singing blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, even Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart." She also recorded many straight jazz sessions with big bands and small combos, most memorably with Clifford Brown on Dinah Jams but also with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Wynton Kelly, and the young Joe Zawinul (who was her regular accompanist for a couple of years).
In 1959, Washington made a sudden breakthrough into the mainstream pop market with "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes," a revival of a Dorsey Brothers hit set to a Latin American bolero tune. For the rest of her career, she would concentrate on singing ballads backed by lush orchestrations for Mercury and Roulette, a formula similar to that of another R&B-based singer at that time, Ray Charles, and one that drew plenty of fire from critics even though her basic vocal approach had not changed one iota. Although her later records could be as banal as any easy listening dross of the period, there are gems to be found, like Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain," which has a beautiful, bluesy Ernie Wilkins chart conducted by Quincy Jones. Struggling with a weight problem, Washington died of an accidental overdose of diet pills mixed with alcohol at the tragically early age of 39, still in peak voice, still singing the blues in an L.A. club only two weeks before the end. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi
Title: The Blues District: Washington Square
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Pop
Title: Christmas Stars: Dinah Washington, Vol. 2
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Dinah Washington Vol. 2
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: The Very Best Of Dinah Washington: The Best Of Roulette Albums (CD3)
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Jazz
Title: In The Land Of Hi-Fi + Unforgettable (Bonus Track Version)
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury Vol. 7 (CD3)
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Blues, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Dinah Washington
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: I Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Dinah Washington
Genre: Pop
Collections
Title: Locked Out of Heaven: Jazz Sinners
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best of Jazz Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Jazz & Blues Gospel
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Club (Masterpieces)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Divas, Vol. 2 (Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Band Jazz, the Jubilee Sessions, 1943 to 1946
Genre: Jazz
Title: U.S.A. Number 1's of 1960, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Get Happy: The Arlen Centennial Celebration
Genre: Jazz
Title: Autumn Spirits - Jazz for Chillin' (Extended Version)
Genre: Jazz
Title: "G", George Gershwin
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Compilation, Vol.4
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Greatest Women In Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics - Vol. 18 (1947-1952)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Rock 'n' Roll, Pop & Soul Sisters, Vol. 10
Genre: Pop
Title: Stars of Early Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The George Gershwin Songbook: 40 Greatest Hits
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Masters of Jazz: 33 Best of Jazz Generation, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Jazz and Blues Connection
Genre: Blues
Title: 1950's Hits & Highlights, Vol. 8
Genre: Pop
Title: Dancing Around the World, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1951 Volume 17
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1951, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: L.A. Jazz Noire - Hip Cats & Their Combos
Genre: World Music
Title: Blues from the Archives
Genre: Blues
Title: Jazz and Rhythm & Blues from the 40's
Genre: Jazz
Title: Number 1's: Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best of Jazz Foundations Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: All That Jazz, Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Greatest R & B Hits of 1960, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Ellas Cantan Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: New York City Blues & R&B 1949-54
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of for Lovers
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952 Volume 18
Genre: Pop
Title: Swing Blues and Jazz, Vol. 04
Genre: Pop
Title: If I Loved You I Would Say So
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Great Songs, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Almost Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 7 (Original Recordings)
Genre: Pop
Title: God Bless the Girls!
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock 'n' Roll, Pop & Soul Sisters, Vol. 21
Genre: Pop
Title: The Definitive Blues Collection, Vol. 8
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild, Cool & Swingin' Too!
Genre: Jazz
Title: Lot's of Love - Relax
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1949, Vol. 7
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock 'n' Roll, Pop & Soul Sisters, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: This Is Soul (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Classic Soul Ballads (Re-recorded Version)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Coffee House Blend (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Pop
Title: Christmas Jazz Vocals (Vol. 1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1951 Volume 5
Genre: Pop
Title: The Great Pop Songs of All Time, Vol. 10
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest R & B Hits of 1948 Volume 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Greatest R'n'B Hits of 1954, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The Great Jazz Collection: Vol. 8
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Jazz Vocalists Sing Swing. Music for Dancers
Genre: Jazz
Title: Verve Presents: The Very Best of Christmas Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz and Rhythm & Blues from the 40's
Genre: Jazz
Title: Laughing in Rhythm
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Definitive R&B Series: 1942-1943
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The Roots of R&B
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The True Story of Rhythm and Blues, Vol. 9
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The Best of Gene Norman's Blues Jubilees
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Featuring albums
Title: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Brook Benton
Artist: Brook Benton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Brook Benton: Greatest Hits (Universal Special Products)
Artist: Brook Benton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Irving Berlin Always
Artist: Irving Berlin Always
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Rock, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Bop, Smooth Jazz
Title: Hamp: The Legendary Decca Recordings of Lionel Hampton
Artist: Lionel Hampton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Bop
Title: Bert Stern: Original Mad Man (Music from the Film)
Artist: Starr Parodi
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: William Christopher Handy: Father of the Blues (Giants of Jazz)
Artist: The Giants Of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: What a Wonderful Christmas
Artist: Louis Armstrong
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop, Traditional Pop Music, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Unforgettable Voices: 30 Best Of Dinah Washington and Barry White
Artist: Barry White
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gotta Find My Baby - 50 Classic Tracks
Artist: Jimmy Ricks & The Ravens
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Amour & turbulences (Bande originale du film)
Artist: Nicolas Wauquiez & Evymoon
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Lee Daniels' The Butler Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack