Dinah Washington: Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington album review by Nic Jones, published on February 27, 2007. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Jazz album: “Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington” by Dinah Washington, released in 2007 on El Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz ...

In 1993, Washington was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in the "early influences" category. And yet, no modern singer has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and pluck.

She was renamed Dinah Washington, and Hamp took her on the road. "Queen," a vibrant new book by Nadine Cohodas, brings out in vivid Technicolor the woman many of us know only from her records.

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 ...

The singer Dinah Washington, known as "Queen of the Blues," reputedly once emptied a Los Angeles nightclub after firing a gun at one of the chorus line dancers whom she suspected of having an ...

The All of Dinah Washington. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

Dinah Washington: A Queen in Turmoil Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, her weight and even her fans. But when she sang, nothing else mattered.

Dinah Washington packed several lifetimes into her 39years.In her book “Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington,” Nadine Cohodas captures the triumphs and tragedy of a singer who ...

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 ...

They called her “Queen of the Blues,” a title Dinah Washington wore with pride and disdain. The way she saw it, Miss D could sing anything – and she did. Blues, country, schmaltzy… ...