DINAH WASHINGTON WITH QUINCY JONES AND HIS ORCHESTRA - The Swingin' Miss "D" (1957-1998) RM | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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. Sinatra's records were regarded as "pop, " of course, and Washington's, 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.] William Ruhlmann  
Tracklist :
1     They Didn't Believe Me 2'49
Jerome Kern / Herbert Reynolds    
2     You're Crying 3'33
Leonard Feather / Quincy Jones
3     Makin' Whoopee 2'30
Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
4     Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 2'32
Cole Porter    
5     But Not for Me 2'28
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin    
6     Caravan 2'41
Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Juan Tizol    
7     Perdido 3'26
Ervin Drake / Hans Lengsfelder / Juan Tizol    
8     Never Let Me Go 2'46
Ray Evans / Jay Livingston    
9     Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? 3'00
Bill Austin / Billy Austin / Louis Jordan    
10     I'll Close My Eyes 4'01
Buddy Kaye / William "Billy" Reid    
11     Somebody Loves Me 2'48
Buddy DeSylva / George Gershwin / Ballard MacDonald
12     I'll Drown in My Tears 3'12
Henry Glover    
13     You Let My Love Grow Cold 2'30
Jessie Mae Robinson    
14     Bargain Day 2:55
William Roy    
15     Relax Max 2:46
Al Frisch / Sid Wayne    
16     Tears To Burn 2:47
Arthur S. Alberts / Tibor Alberts / Richard Bruce    
17     The Kissing Way Home 2:27
Mann Curtis / Manny Curtis / Manny Kurtz / Harold Solomon
18     I Know 3'07
Hallowell / Teddy Powell
Credits :
Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Anthony Ortega
Alto Saxophone, Flugelhorn – Hal McKusick (tracks: 1 to 14)
Arranged By – Benny Golson (tracks: 8), Ernie Wilkins (tracks: 4, 5)
Arranged By, Conductor – Quincy Jones (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 7, 9 to 18)
Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank (tracks: 1 to 14)
Double Bass – Milt Hinton (tracks: 1 to 14)
Drums – Jimmy Crawford (tracks: 6, 7, 9, 11 to 13), Osie Johnson (tracks: 1 to 5, 8, 10, 14)
Guitar – Barry Galbraith (tracks: 1 to 14)
Piano, Celesta – Clarence "Sleepy" Anderson (tracks: 1 to 14)
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Jerome Richardson (tracks: 1 to 14), Lucky Thompson
Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson (tracks: 1 to 14), Tommy Mitchell* (tracks: 1 to 14), Urbie Green (tracks: 1 to 14)
Trumpet – Bernie Glow (tracks: 1 to 5, 8, 10, 14), Charlie Shavers (tracks: 1 to 14), Clark Terry (tracks: 1 to 14), Nick Travis (tracks: 1 to 5, 8, 10, 14)
Trumpet, Mellophone, Vibraphone, Bongos – Don Elliott
Trumpet, Vibraphone – Ernie Royal (tracks: 6, 7, 9, 11 to 13), Joe Wilder (tracks: 6, 7, 9, 11 to 13)
Xylophone – Don Elliott (tracks: 3)