Artist: Dinah Washington: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Jazz Vocal Blues Discography: What A Difference A Day Makes Year: 2004 Tracks: 12 Jazz Masters 40 Year: 2000 Tracks: 12 The Best Of Year: 1997 Tracks: 30 Verve Jazz Masters 40: Dinah Sings Standards Year: 1994 Tracks: 12 Verve Jazz Masters 19 Year: 1994 Tracks: 16 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD3 Year: 1994 Tracks: 17 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD2 Year: 1994 Tracks: 17 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 CD1 Year: 1994 Tracks: 19 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD3 Year: 1991 Tracks: 20 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD2 Year: 1991 Tracks: 22 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 7 CD1 Year: 1991 Tracks: 16 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 6 CD2 Year: 1991 Tracks: 19 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 6 CD1 Year: 1991 Tracks: 27 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 5 CD2 Year: 1991 Tracks: 24 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 4 CD2 Year: 1990 Tracks: 23 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 4 CD1 Year: 1990 Tracks: 16 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 3 CD3 Year: 1990 Tracks: 10 The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 3 CD1 Year: 1990 Tracks: 28 The Bessie Smith Songbook Year: 1990 Tracks: 10 Compact Jazz: Dinah Sings the Blues Year: 1990 Tracks: 16 Dinah Jams Year: 1955 Tracks: 8 The Blues Ain't Nothing But A Woman Year: Tracks: 20 Sings the Blues Year: Tracks: 24 Jazz Masters 19 Year: Tracks: 16 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. |