Dinah Washington rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s. She was a singer known for several genres including blues, jazz, and R&B. In 2021, Washington was brought to life on screen by Mary J. Blige in the ...

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”? Not quite — but it did ...

Gwyneth Herbert joins Alyn Shipton to pick the essential recordings by the great jazz diva Dinah Washington, including her bluesy mid-1940s repertoire and American popular song. Show more Dinah ...

August 25, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — Some songs don’t just land—they arrive with a little starlight on their shoulders. Ledisi’s radiant take on “What a Dif or.ference a Day Made” is one of ...

Brash, bold and, later, sometimes blonde Dinah Washington packed heat, gobbled diet pills, and was a taskmaster both in the studio and on the bandstand. If it was a gut-bucket blues or a highly ...

As a child, Chicago jazz singer Dee Alexander learned to love the music of Dinah Washington, which her mother liked to play on Sundays as she did the ironing. Credit: Raymond Mays Dinah Washington was ...

“That actually happened to another jazz singer, but the incident seemed very true to their relationship,” Scott Wilson said. “So I gave it to Aretha instead.” Etta James was the singer in Washington’s ...

You have to give Dinah Washington credit. Not only was she stylistically versatile, she ruled a multileveled, dysfunctional domestic roost and ran her own musical operation from a very early age.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dinah Washington was best known for the song “What a Difference a Day Makes.” The same could be said of Shadow Theatre, which christened its striking new ...

Five CDs and 94 tracks from her 1962-63 recording sessions give this complete Dinah Washington collection from Mosaic ample opportunities for extended listening. Five hours of Ms. Washington's ...

Writer Nadine Cohodas celebrates the life of the Alabama-born Dinah Washington. She would have turned 80 on August 29. The crossover jazz, blues and light pop star is famous for the Grammy-winning ...

August 10, 2017 • With technical mastery and endless style, Washington never sang the same song the same way twice. No singer since has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and ...