Dinah Washington – September In The Rain (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – September In The Rain (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:50 minutes | 573 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings

September in the Rain is the eleventh studio album LP record by R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington, released on the Mercury Records label.

The title track was released as a single (b/w “Wake the Town and Tell the People”), reaching #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #5 on the Hot R&B chart.

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Dinah Washington – For Lonely Lovers (High Definition Remaster 2023) (2022/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Dinah Washington – For Lonely Lovers (High Definition Remaster 2023) (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:03 minutes | 366 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali

Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music,[1] and gave herself the title of “Queen of the Blues”. She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

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Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones And His OrchestraThe – The Swingin’ Miss “D” (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones And His OrchestraThe – The Swingin’ Miss “D” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:18 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Dinah Washington was accompanied by an orchestra organized and conducted by Quincy Jones on this 1957 album, and she was singing to arrangements mostly written by the young bandleader, swing charts of pop standards by the likes of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. The result had much in common with the swing albums of Frank Sinatra in the same period, especially because Jones’ arrangements were heavily influenced by Billy May and Nelson Riddle. Sinatra’s records were regarded as “pop, ” of course, and Washington’s, at least when released on the EmArcy subsidiary of Mercury Records, as “jazz, ” but her precise articulation and attention to lyrical meaning left little room for improvisation, and while Jones allowed for brief solos from a band that included Charlie Shavers, Clark Terry, Urbie Green, and Milt Hinton, the jazz categorization was actually arbitrary. Whatever musical genre you assign it to, however, this is an excellent Washington album. [For the 1998 reissue, Verve added seven bonus tracks recorded around the same time and with much the same personnel, though they were intended as singles and thus are inferior contemporary tunes. Often, however, Washington sounds more comfortable and enthusiastic on these pop and R&B songs than she does on the standards.]

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Dinah Washington – The Very Best of Dinah Washington (The 50 best tracks of the jazz diva) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – The Very Best of Dinah Washington (The 50 best tracks of the jazz diva) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:15:25 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BnF Collection

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.

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Dinah Washington – Newport ’58 (1958/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Dinah Washington – Newport ’58 (1958/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:17 minutes | 354 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager

Newport ’58 is a live album by vocalist Dinah Washington. It was recorded on July 6, 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, and arranged by Melba Liston.

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Dinah Washington – I Wanna Be Loved! (1961/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – I Wanna Be Loved! (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:23 minutes | 629 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

One of the great “heartbreak” albums. Dinah lends her highly personal take to such numbers as Sometimes I’m Happy; I Can’t Face the Music; Don’t Explain; You’re Crying, and Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool with masterful accompaniment from arranger Quincy Jones and a top-notch jazz orchestra on this 1962 Mercury release. Feelin’ bad never sounded so good.

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Dinah Washington – Dinah Washington Sings the Blues (1987/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Dinah Washington – Dinah Washington Sings the Blues (1987/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:10 minutes | 285 MB | Genre: Blues
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Born Ruth Lee Jones in 1924, Dinah Washington was a band singer with Lionel Hampton from 1943 to ’46. After this she went solo, signing with MERCURY records in 1948, remaining with that label until her death in 1963. It’s been said that Dinah’s hard-edged approach to love songs was due to seven failed marriages. True or not, it’s a certainty that Miss Washington had a unique highly-pitched, clipped delivery and handled blues, jazz, R&B and pop songs with equal skill.

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Dinah Washington – Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (1958/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (1958/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:22 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Dinah Sings Bessie Smith is the ninth studio album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the Emarcy label, and reissued by Verve Records in 1999 as The Bessie Smith Songbook. The album arrangements are headed by Robare Edmondson and Ernie Wilkins, and the songs are associated with American blues singer Bessie Smith. Allmusic details the album in its review as saying: “It was only natural that the “Queen of the Blues” should record songs associated with the “Empress of the Blues.” The performances by the septet/octet do not sound like the 1920s and the purposely ricky-tick drumming is insulting, but Dinah Washington sounds quite at home on this music”.

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Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams Fats Waller (1955/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams Fats Waller (1955/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:45 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Dinah Jams is the second studio album by vocalist Dinah Washington. It was recorded live In Los Angeles in 1954. Billboard in 1955 wrote: “The instrumental solos are excellent and the entire package is well recorded in a smoothly paced collection of hot and cool jazz.”

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Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams (1984/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams (1984/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:43 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Dinah Jams is an album by vocalist Dinah Washington. It was recorded live In Los Angeles in 1954. Billboard in 1955 wrote: “The instrumental solos are excellent and the entire package is well recorded in a smoothly paced collection of hot and cool jazz.

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Dinah Washington – Dinah (1956/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – Dinah (1956/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:49 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Jazz, Soul
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Dinah! is a 1956 album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the EmArcy label. The album includes a mix of jazz, popular and blues standards of the period, all selected to emphasize the vocalist’s style.

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Dinah Washington – After Hours In The Land Of Hi-Fi (1956/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dinah Washington – After Hours In The Land Of Hi-Fi (1956/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:20 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

In the Land of Hi-Fi is the fifth studio album by the blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington, released in 1956 on the Emarcy label. The album includes a mix of jazz, popular and blues standards of the period, all selected to emphasize the vocalist’s style.

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Dinah Washington – Dinah sings … (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Dinah Washington – Dinah sings … (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:30 minutes | 327 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Legends

Dinah Sings Bessie Smith is the ninth studio album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the Emarcy label, and reissued by Verve Records in 1999 as The Bessie Smith Songbook. The album arrangements are headed by Robare Edmondson and Ernie Wilkins, and the songs are associated with American blues singer Bessie Smith. Allmusic details the album in its review as saying: “It was only natural that the “Queen of the Blues” should record songs associated with the “Empress of the Blues.” The performances by the septet/octet do not sound like the 1920s and the purposely ricky-tick drumming is insulting, but Dinah Washington sounds quite at home on this music”

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