Dinah Washington - The Swingin Miss D '1957

Tracks list

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.
Sinatras records were regarded as pop,  of course, and Washingtons, 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.]

Tracklist:
1 01. Dinah Washington - They Didnt Believe Me (Remastered) (02:48)
1 02. Dinah Washington - Youre Crying (Remastered) (03:32)
1 03. Dinah Washington - Makin Whoopee (Remastered) (02:30)
1 04. Dinah Washington - Evry Time We Say Goodbye (Remastered) (02:31)
1 05. Dinah Washington - But Not For Me (Remastered) (02:28)
1 06. Dinah Washington - Caravan (Remastered) (02:40)
1 07. Dinah Washington - Perdido (Remastered) (03:25)
1 08. Dinah Washington - Never Let Me Go (Remastered) (02:46)
1 09. Dinah Washington - Is You Is Or Is You Aint My Baby? (Remastered) (03:00)
1 10. Dinah Washington - Ill Close My Eyes (Remastered) (04:00)
1 11. Dinah Washington - Somebody Loves Me (Remastered) (02:47)
1 12. Dinah Washington - Ill Drown In My Tears (Remastered) (03:12)
1 13. Dinah Washington - You Let My Love Grow Cold (Remastered) (02:29)
1 14. Dinah Washington - Bargain Day (Remastered) (02:55)
1 15. Dinah Washington - Relax, Max (Remastered) (02:45)
1 16. Dinah Washington - Tears To Burn (Remastered) (02:47)
1 17. Dinah Washington - The Kissing Way Home (Remastered) (02:27)
1 18. Dinah Washington - I Know (Remastered) (03:07)

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