Dinah Washington
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Oct 29, 2026
Steve BowieHOST
It consisted of five movements.
Steve BowieHOST
The first one was titled Girls, followed by movements named after Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Mahalia Jackson, and Dinah Washington.
Steve BowieHOST
He recorded it in the studio in Los Angeles on September 19, 1961, and he performed it live four days later on September 23 at the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Steve BowieHOST
We'll hear both versions of the suite, the live and the studio versions later.
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Steve BowieHOST
Thank you.
Steve BowieHOST
Yeah.
Steve BowieHOST
Dinah is, of course, dedicated to Dinah Washington.
Steve BowieHOST
Duke on piano and Sam Woodyard on drums with his patented shuffle rhythm started out.
Alex BirdHOST
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Alex BirdHOST
Of course, I'm leaving you with one more recording, and it's a sweet recording from Dinah Washington called My Man's an Undertaker.
Alex BirdHOST
I hope you dig it.
Alex BirdHOST
Wherever you are in time and space, I'm wishing you a very good rest of your morning, afternoon, or night.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
They extended to the company that passed through its front door.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Clara Ward, Duke Ellington.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
A veritable revolving door of Black living legends, shaping jazz, gospel, blues, and culture.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
And as Aretha's voice began to emerge, around 10 years old, her father started trotting her out to that grand piano to perform for his esteemed guests.
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Sydney O'ReillyHOST
Who would be the target audience of a hodgepodge album? In 1964, Aretha turned 22 years old.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
She gave birth to her third child and recorded her fifth studio album.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
This one, a tribute album to the late, great Dinah Washington, an idol of Aretha's and close family friend of the Franklins.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
It's said Aretha's husband-slash-manager had the idea to present Aretha as the new Dinah, the rightful heir to Washington's queendom.
Amy WinehouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's the way my dad sings.
Amy WinehouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What kind of music did he like you to listen to? He listens to a lot of Sinatra, a lot of Dinah Washington.
Amy WinehouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He always claimed that he discovered Dinah Washington.
Amy WinehouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No one used to listen to Dinah before me.
Amy WinehouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, and he loves Sarah Vaughan.
Abigail DevoeHOST
She pressed charges anyway, and found a gangster named Fat Jack to be her bodyguard.
Abigail DevoeHOST
It happened to Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington.
Abigail DevoeHOST
They say it happened to Ella and Sarah.
Abigail DevoeHOST
It certainly happened to Aretha and me.
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Abigail DevoeHOST
Etta wasn't too happy about somebody else singing her song.
Abigail DevoeHOST
She came from old school show business rules where a singer never sings another song while she's in the house, so to speak.
Abigail DevoeHOST
At the height of her fame, Etta was raked across the coals by Dinah Washington backstage at a club for singing Unforgettable.
Abigail DevoeHOST
Etta liked listening to Toni Braxton, Brandy, Mary J. Blige, and Aaliyah.
MarkHOST
everyone welcome to episode number 76 of matushka's right peg tonight in the studio we have a full house back again uh baz don connie And Kyle joining me, Mark, here in the studio.
MarkHOST
Now, to paraphrase the great soul singer Dinah Washington, what a difference three weeks makes.
MarkHOST
504 little hours.
MarkHOST
Now, four points for the men.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And now, here's your host for Jazz After Dinner, Joe Perillo.
Joe PerilloHOST
Dinah Washington from a 1994 Polygram Verve Records compilation recording titled Jazz Masters 19.
Joe PerilloHOST
So let's get right to the music here and I'm starting off this first set with the tune A Slick Chick on the Mellow Side.
Joe PerilloHOST
I'm
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Joe PerilloHOST
Then Please Send Me Someone to Love.
Joe PerilloHOST
Then This Can't Be Love and I ended that set with New Blowtop Blues.
Joe PerilloHOST
So you are listening to vocalist Dinah Washington from a 1994 Polygram Verve Records compilation recording titled Jazz Masters 19.
Joe PerilloHOST
So let's get back to the music here right now and I'm going to start off this next set with the tune Cold Cold Heart.
Dave StroudHOST
Only now, the subject is a wedding, and the man getting married, married isn't marrying her.
Dave StroudHOST
Oh, and Dinah Washington preceded Etta with This Bitter Earth.
Dave StroudHOST
Uh, what a voice and what a song.
Dave StroudHOST
Uh, Dinah could sing blues, jazz, pop, or just about anything else and make it her own.
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Nate WilcoxHOST
And another thing Hampton did was feature the work of Dinah Washington, who's somebody else.
Nate WilcoxHOST
She's a lot like Leroy Carr in that enormously popular, enormously influential, and very overlooked today.
Ed WardGUEST
Right.
Don ShorHOST
That was Duke Ellington with Satin Doll.
Don ShorHOST
Coming up tonight, Sonny Stitt, Al Cohn and the Zoot Sims Quintet, Tal Farlow, Oscar Peterson and Ben Webster, Zoot Sims and Bob Brookmeyer, the Ray Bryant Trio, Claire Fisher, Joe Williams, Dinah Washington, Eddie Jefferson, Oliver Nelson, and Jim Hall, all tonight on Jazz After Dark.
Don ShorHOST
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Don ShorHOST
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Don ShorHOST
got a vocal set here.
Don ShorHOST
Joe Williams, Live at Newport, 1963, Wayfaring Stranger.
Don ShorHOST
Dinah Washington, I Close My Eyes, from album Queen and Quincy, with Quincy Jones and his orchestra, 1964.
Don ShorHOST
Eddie Jefferson, Lester's Trip to the Moon, from the Jazz Singer release, 1965.
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