Saturday, 30 August 2008

Download Dinah Washington mp3






Dinah Washington
   

Artist: Dinah Washington: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Other
Jazz
Vocal
Blues

   







Discography:


What A Difference A Day Makes
   

 What A Difference A Day Makes

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 12
Jazz Masters 40
   

 Jazz Masters 40

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 12
The Best Of
   

 The Best Of

   Year: 1997   

Tracks: 30
Verve Jazz Masters 40: Dinah Sings Standards
   

 Verve Jazz Masters 40: Dinah Sings Standards

   Year: 1994   

Tracks: 12
Verve Jazz Masters 19
   

 Verve Jazz Masters 19

   Year: 1994   

Tracks: 16
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD3
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD3

   Year: 1994   

Tracks: 17
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD2
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD2

   Year: 1994   

Tracks: 17
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD1
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD1

   Year: 1994   

Tracks: 19
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD3
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD3

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 20
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD2
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD2

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 22
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD1
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD1

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 16
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 6 CD2
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 6 CD2

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 19
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 6 CD1
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 6 CD1

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 27
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 5 CD2
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 5 CD2

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 24
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 4 CD2
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 4 CD2

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 23
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 4 CD1
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 4 CD1

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 16
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 3 CD3
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 3 CD3

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 10
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 3 CD1
   

 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 3 CD1

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 28
The Bessie Smith Songbook
   

 The Bessie Smith Songbook

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 10
Compact Jazz: Dinah Sings the Blues
   

 Compact Jazz: Dinah Sings the Blues

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 16
Dinah Jams
   

 Dinah Jams

   Year: 1955   

Tracks: 8
The Blues Ain't Nothing But A Woman
   

 The Blues Ain't Nothing But A Woman

   Year:    

Tracks: 20
Sings the Blues
   

 Sings the Blues

   Year:    

Tracks: 24
Jazz Masters 19
   

 Jazz Masters 19

   Year:    

Tracks: 16
It's Magic
   

 It's Magic

   Year:    

Tracks: 17






Dinah Washington was at erst peerless of the most dearest and controversial singers of the mid-20th century -- beloved to her fans, devotees, and mate singers; controversial to critics wHO still commove her of selling astonished her graphics to commerce and bad taste. Her principal sinfulness, patently, was to tame a classifiable vocal manner that was at home in all kinds of euphony, be it R&B, vapours, wind, middle of the route bolt down -- and she in all likelihood would incur made a fine religious doctrine truth or commonwealth isaac Merrit Singer had she the time. Hers was a gamey, salty, high-pitched voice, marked by absolute uncloudedness of enunciation and clipped, bluesy phrasing. Washington's personal spirit was riled, with seven-spot marriages behind her, and her interpretations showed it, for she displayed a tough, entirely tough-minded, all the same noneffervescent gripping hold on the universal proposition issue of lost love. She has had a vast influence on R&B and jazz singers world Health Organization have followed in her wake, notably Nancy Wilson, Esther Phillips, and Diane Schuur, and her euphony is profusely unattached nowadays via the immense seven-volume serial The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury.


Born Ruth Lee Jones, she affected to Chicago at age triad and was brocaded in a human race of gospel, acting the pianoforte and directional her church choir. At 15, later victorious an amateur contest at the Regal Theatre, she began playing in nightclubs as a pianist and singer, initiative at the Garrick Bar in 1942. Talent manager Joe Glaser heard her in that location and recommended her to Lionel Hampton, wHO asked her to join his band. Hampton says that it was he wHO gave Ruth Jones the discover Dinah Washington, although other sources claim it was Glaser or the manager of the Garrick Bar. In whatever sheath, 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 captain Hicks raddled from the Hampton banding. With Feather's "Immorality Gal Blues" as her number one pip, the records took off, and by the time she left Hampton to go solo, Washington was already an R&B star. Signing with the cy Young Mercury label, Washington produced an enviable string of Top Ten hits on the R&B charts from 1948 to 1955, vocalizing blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, fifty-fifty Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart." She likewise recorded many straight jazz roger Sessions with big bands and pocket-sized combos, well-nigh unforgettably with Clifford Brown on Dinah Jams only likewise with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Wynton Kelly, and the cy Young Joe Zawinul (wHO was her regular accompanyist for a couple of days).


In 1959, Washington made a sudden breakthrough into the mainstream pop market with "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes," a revitalisation of a Dorsey Brothers strike coiffure to a Latin American bolero melodic phrase. For the rest of her vocation, she would concentrate on telling ballads backed by lush orchestrations for Mercury and Roulette, a rule standardized to that of some other R&B-based vocalist at that time, Ray Charles, and one that drew plentitude of fire from critics level though her introductory vocal approach shot had non changed one smidgen. Although her later records could be as stock as any gentle listening impurity of the geological period, in that location ar gems to be base, 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 former age of 39, still in peak vocalisation, still vocalizing the blues in an L.A. golf-club only deuce weeks before the end.






Sunday, 10 August 2008

State's High School Youth Are Smoking Less

�Alabama high school students are acquiring the message that smoking isn't cool, according to the
results of the 2008 Youth Tobacco Survey conducted by the Alabama Department of Public
Health's Tobacco Prevention Branch.


There was a 17.5 percent decrement in high school students who weed in 2008 compared to
those wHO said they smoked in 2006, according to the survey. About 22.1 percent of high
school students aforesaid they smoke-dried in the 2008 appraise compared to nearly 27 percent wHO
reported they smoked in 2006.


The 2008 appraise was administered in 43 public high schools earlier this class. The results are
based on the sampling of 1,384 students wHO completed useable questionnaires.
More than half the students world Health Organization smoke tell they want to quit, according to the survey. Cigars were
the most prevalent tobacco plant product ill-used after cigarettes for high school students, with 15
percent reportage they smoke-dried them.


While the prevalence rate for state teens is dropping, nationally, youth tobacco rates have
stalled, according to the Office on Smoking and Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Cigarette use among high school students declined from 1997 to 2003, but rates
remained stable from 2003 to 2007. Nationally, just under 22 percent of students ages 14-18
skunk, according to CDC.


Alabama has made significant forward motion addressing jejune tobacco use, said Dr. Donald
Williamson, Alabama's province health military officer. "We fund community groups to cultivate people
more or less the dangers of secondhand smoke and to encourage youth to reject baccy use," Dr.
Williamson said. In the past class, the Youth Empowerment Program, a peer-teaching model,
reached more than 58,000 teens with tobacco prevention and used smoke messages,
he aforementioned.


In addition, Life Skills training course of study is provided to sixth graders in selected schools across
the state. This program has been proved to reduce the risks of alcohol, tobacco, dose abuse
and violence by targeting major social and psychological factors that promote these behaviors,
he said.
Also, the department has launched a new stripling cessation externalize using telecasting and radio ads,
a MySpace page for teens and education for health care providers, Dr. Williamson said.
Teens who want to throw in tobacco toilet call the Alabama Tobacco Quitline, 1-800-Quit-Now, for
free counseling, aforesaid Dr. Williamson. The Quitline is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through
Friday. An incentive is offered to teens wHO complete counselling and successfully quit tobacco.

Alabama Department of Public Health


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