Dinah Washington - Four Classic Albums (After Hours with Miss D / For Those in Love / Dinah Jams / The Swingin' Miss D) (Digitally Remastered) (2020)

AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Dinah Washington, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details

“After Hours With Miss D”; “For Those In Love”; “Dinah Jams” and “The Swingin’ Miss D’”

At last, the wait is over, we hear you cry, again! AVID have finally inducted Miss Dinah Washington into our Four Classic Albums “hall of fame”! Ok so we have taken our time in paying tribute to the great lady, but we wanted to get it right, we wanted to select the best albums that truly captured Miss Washington’s huge vocal talents. And we think we have succeeded with the four selections we have chosen from when her career really took off after the sensationally exciting performance before a live studio audience “Dinah Jams” in 1954. Born in Alabama as Ruth Lee Jones in 1924, Ruth moved to Chicago and became involved in gospel music singing and playing piano in the school choir. At 15 she began playing in the clubs around Chicago and it wasn’t long before she found herself playing upstairs at The Garrick club at the same moment a certain Billie Holiday was entertaining the guest’s downstairs. Soon she would join the Lionel Hampton band after he had come to hear the newly named Dinah Washington perform at the club. Dinah Washington made her first recordings in 1944 and would go on to be described as “the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950’s”. We are proud to present four of her classic albums from that period, the high regard she was held in can be seen by the incredible line up of jazz musicians who are featured on these classic albums. They include, Quincy Jones, Clark Terry, Clifford Brown, Junior Mance, Maynard Ferguson, Max Roach, Jerome Richardson, Osie Johnson, Barry Galbraith, Cecil Payne & Jimmy Cobb.