DINAH WASHINGTON - Compact Jazz : Dinah Sings the Blues (1987) RM | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Dinah Washington is one of the all-time great jazz singers, and she staked that claim with a whole lot of blues in her delivery. This roundup of blues-heavy sides from her Mercury heyday, then, is a welcome addition to an already impressive catalog. Cut during the '50s and early '60s, the 16 tracks include such usual suspects as "Trouble in Mind," "You Don't' Know What Love Is," and Bessie Smith's classic "Backwater Blues." Nicely augmenting these fine renditions, Washington transforms pop numbers like "Since I Fell for You" and "Soft Winds" with some juke-joint heat. And with plenty more gems to be had and fine support from arranger Quincy Jones, tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson, trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, drummer Max Roach, and many others, one can't lose gettin' real lowdown with the swingin' (and bluesy) "Miss D." Stephen Cook
Tracklist :
1     Show Time 2'53
Juanita Hill / Dinah Washington
2     Time Out for Tears 2'54
Irving Berman / Abe Schiff
3     Trouble in Mind 2'22
Richard M. Jones
4     A Bad Case of the Blues 2'36
Clyde Otis
5     Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? 2'42
Bill Austin / Louis Jordan
6     Bad Luck 2'50
Juanita Hill / Dinah Washington
7     You Don't Know What Love Is 3'59
Gene DePaul / Don Raye
8     Trouble in the Lowlands 9'10
Bessie Smith
9     Blue Gardenia 5'15
Lester Lee / Bob Russell
10     Soft Winds 3'00
Benny Goodman / Fred Royal
11     Somewhere Along the Line 2'38
Walter Merrick / Dinah Washington
12     Salty Papa Blues 2'27
Leonard Feather / Lionel Hampton
13     Make the Man Love Me 5'30
Dorothy Fields / Arthur Schwartz
14     Lingering 2'24
Stanley Adams / Dinah Washington
15     Since I Fell for You 3'14
Buddy Johnson
16     No More 3'18
Tutti Camarata / Bob Russell