Dinah Washington - Dinah Washington's Finest Hour
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Artist: Dinah WashingtonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-27
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Evil Gal Blues
- Blowtop Blues
- West Side Baby
- Long John Blues
- Baby, Get Lost
- Trouble In Mind
- Cold, Cold Heart
- TV Is The Thing This Year
- I'll Remember April
- Teach Me Tonight
- I Just Couldn't Stand It No More
- I Could Write A Book
- Blue Gardenia
- What A Diff'rence A Day Made
- Unforgettable
- Baby, You Got What It Takes
- This Bitter Earth
- Mad About The Boy
Free Music Notes for Dinah Washington's Finest Hour
Free Music Review: Great CD
Hit: 4 Stars
If you like Ella, Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong you will definitely appreciate this album. This is the type of music you could expect to hear in a jazz club in Harlem in the 50s, it has that type of flavor. What a "Difference a Day Makes" will be a sure repeater.
I really enjoyed this CD as a newbie to Dinah Washington. My favorite and most listened to tracks begin after track nine, as tracks 10 on up have better sound quality and are her more popular songs. One song I found quite entertaining was the song in which she sang about a new invention called TV. This was especially funny, being that TV in America is as common as the air we breathe.
Dinah Washington's Finest Hour Poster
From the late 1940s until her death in 1963, Dinah Washington was a dominant presence among the women who sang R&B, with an unequalled emotional power and a voice that mingled highs and lows, rough and smooth, like raw silk. While she often sang R&B, though, her mastery of the idiom drew on her ability to sing all its constituent parts and musical relations--blues, jazz, and pop. This hourlong survey of her Mercury recordings covers all the bases that she touched in her career. Beginning with a 1947 session with backing from Lionel Hampton, Washington's Finest Hour extends to the pop sessions that brought her greater successes more than a decade later, both alone and with fellow singer Brook Benton. Washington the blues singer is equally effective on the bawdy "Long John Blues" and the traditional lament "Trouble in Mind," while her jazz-rooted mastery of standards is apparent on such songs as "I'll Remember April" and the profound "Blue Gardenia." She could even cover a country song like Hank Williams's "Cold, Cold Heart" or the light pop of "Teach Me Tonight" and make it convincingly her own, while her version of "Unforgettable" can stand comparison with Nat "King" Cole's. This is a terrific introduction to one of the essential singers, whatever genre claims her. --Stuart BroomerJazz Music CDs
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