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Dinah Sings Bessie Smith

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Released
  
1958

Producer
  
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith(1958)
  
Release date
  
1958

Label
  
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Recorded
  
December 30, 1957 January 20, 1958

Length
  
35:23 (original recording)

Genres
  
Blues, Traditional pop music

Similar
  
Dinah Washington albums, Blues albums

Dinah Sings Bessie Smith is a 1958 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".

Contents

Track listing

Additional tracks on 1999 CD reissue

"Trombone Butter" is a remake of "Trombone Cholly" with Quentin "Butter" Jackson playing Charlie Green's trombone part.

Personnel

  • Dinah Washington – Lead Vocals
  • Eddie Chamblee - Sax (Tenor)
  • Eddie Chamblee & Orchestra
  • Charles Davis - Sax (Baritone)
  • McKinley Easton - Sax (Baritone)
  • Harold Ousley - Sax (Baritone)
  • Sahib Shihab - Sax (Baritone)
  • Jack Wilson - Piano
  • James Craig - Piano
  • Wynton Kelly - Piano
  • Quentin Jackson - Trombone
  • Julian Priester - Trombone
  • Melba Liston - Trombone
  • Flip Ricard - Trumpet
  • Fortunatus Ricard - Trumpet
  • Blue Mitchell - Trumpet
  • Clark Terry - Trumpet
  • Robert Lee Wilson - Bass
  • Robert Edmondson - Bass
  • Paul West - Bass
  • James Slaughter - Drums
  • Max Roach - Drums
  • The Newport All Stars
  • Robare Edmondson - Arranger
  • Ernie Wilkins - Arranger
  • Bob Shad – producer
  • Dennis Drake - Digital Remastering
  • Songs

    1After You've Gone3:38
    2Send Me to the 'lectric Chair3:17
    3Jailhouse Blues3:13

    References

    Dinah Sings Bessie Smith Wikipedia


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