TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7456
Dinah Washington Album Rankings
1
One of the more notorious albums in the history of vocal music,What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!is the lush session that bumped up Dinah Washington from the Queen of the Blues to a middle-of-the-road voc
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Recorded at the start of Dinah Washington's climb to fame, 1954'sDinah Jamswas taped live in front of a studio audience in Los Angeles.
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3
As with most Dinah Washington records,In the Land of Hi-Fiincludes an eclectic program of ballads and swingers, all of which become prime vehicles for the singer's dramatic, blues-tinged vocal styling
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4
All of Dinah Washington's studio recordings from 1946-1961 have been reissued in definitive fashion by Polygram on seven three-CD sets.Vol.
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5
Gifted with a strong, beautiful voice and very precise phrasing, Dinah Washington translatedBessie Smith's irrepressible spirit and flair even better thanBillie Holiday,Smith's most famous devotee.
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6
Creating yet another series to justify reissuing material from its vaults, this VerveJazz Mastersentry raids albums Dinah Washington recorded for the Mercury label from 1952 through 1958.
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7
If you buy one, you'll want them all. Important documents.
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8
The seventh and final volume in Mercury'sCompleteseries of Dinah Washington's recordings has impeccable packaging and largely inferior music, at least from the jazz standpoint.
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15
In Europe, where there is a 50-year copyright limit on recordings, anyone who wants to can assemble albums of tracks by veteran artists and release them without getting permission, paying to license
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21
It is fairly easy to evaluate Dinah Washington's recordings.
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23
Dinah Washington's Verve Jazz Masters, Vol.
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24
Verve continues their Finest Hour series with Dinah Washington's Finest Hour, an 18-song collection highlighting the entire range of her repertoire, from blues to jazz to pop.
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32
This 20-track compilation released as a joint venture by Verve and Blue Note, covers a lot of ground -- from 1943 to 1962 -- but then, so did Dinah Washington.
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40
Synergy Entertainment's compilations are distinctive for one thing: their sound. Each track considered has been painstakingly remastered for a warm, full presentation.
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44
The mellow, lyric side of Miss Dinah finally broke through to a pop audience with this mega-hit.
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48
The 2004 Verve release Queen: The Music of Dinah Washington was compiled by Nadine Cohodas to coincide with her biography of the troubled singer.
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50
This collection comes from Dinah Washington's time at Roulette Records, by which time she had already waxed most of her classic material.
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52
These early R&B and blues rarities are earthy, funky fun, with a superb swing band that includes the likes of Lucky Thompson , Milt Jackson and Charles Mingus .
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