Dinah Sings Bessie Smith

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Dinah Sings Bessie Smith
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Studio album by
Dinah Washington
Released1958
RecordedDecember 30, 1957 January 20, 1958
GenreBlues, pop standards
Length35:23 (original recording)
LabelEmarcy, Verve (reissue)
ProducerBob Shad
Dinah Washington chronology
Music for a First Love
(1957) 		Dinah Sings Bessie Smith
(1958) 		Newport '58
(1958)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3/5 stars[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4 stars[2]

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 album arrangements are headed by 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".[3]

Track listing[]

  1. "After You've Gone" (Turner Layton, Henry Creamer) – 3:39
  2. "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" (George Brooks, Fletcher Henderson) – 3:17
  3. "Jailhouse Blues" (Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams) – 3:12
  4. "Trombone Butter" (Fletcher Henderson) – 3:31
  5. "You've Been a Good Old Wagon" (Perry Bradford) – 4:02
  6. "Careless Love" (W.C.Handy, , Spencer Williams) – 3:37
  7. "Backwater Blues" (Bessie Smith) – 5:00
  8. "If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)" (James P. Johnson, Henry Creamer) – 2:49
  9. "Me and My Gin" (Harry Burke) - 3:11
  10. "Fine Fat Daddy" (Dinah Washington) - 3:05
Additional tracks on 1999 CD reissue[4]
  1. "Trombone Butter (Alternative Take)" (Fletcher Henderson) – 3:38
  2. "Careless Love" (Master Take In Mono) (W.C.Handy, , Spencer Williams) – 4:01
  3. "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" (Live Newport '58) (George Brooks, Fletcher Henderson) – 3:53
  4. "Me and My Gin" (Live Newport '58) (Harry Burke) - 3:20
  5. "Backwater Blues" (Live Newport '58) (Bessie Smith) – 4:37

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

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1467. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Yanow, Scott. "Dinah Sings Bessie Smith". Allmusic.
  4. ^ http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/music/detail.aspx?pid=9970&aid=2851
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