Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studio portrait of American jazz singer Dinah Washington (1924 - 1963), 1940s. (Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Winsome ...

The versatile vocalist Dinah Washington was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa Alabama on August 29th 1924. She grew up in Chicago where her family moved in 1928. Her mother was heavily involved in ...

In this episode we celebrate some heavyweight jazz birthdays --Dinah Washington, Teri Thornton and Alice Coltrane, to name a few. Plus a bumper crop of new releases as summer winds down.

Today, Grammy-winning vocalist Ledisi announced For Dinah, a deeply personal tribute album to her lifelong hero, the legendary jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington, to be released on Oct. 3 via ...

Talent contests these days seem to be more spectacle than substance, but back in the day they were an important means of showcasing emerging artists. For singers in particular, a comp or an open mic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A stretch of a Chicago street is now named for jazz singer Dinah Washington. Friday would have been her 90th birthday. She died in 1963 at the age of 39. Musicians and other fans ...

Winsome Pinnock and Danny Glover are reportedly teaming up for a large-scale biopic about jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington. Hollywood is reportedly cooking up a large-scale biopic about ...

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 ...

Hollywood is reportedly cooking up a large-scale biopic about legendary jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington. “Our grandmother’s singing went beyond the lyrics. It was a connection with her audience ...

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 ...