Dinah Jams

Jazz diva Dinah Washington was one of the most popular female artists of the 1950s. Born Ruth Jones in Alabama in 1924, she moved to Chicago as a child and began performing with Fats Waller as a teenager after working as lione hampton's musical arranger. She signed to Mercury as a jazz singer. “Dinah jams” Was taken from a live performance given in L.A. On August 25th 1954. Backed by stellar musicians such as drummer Max Roach, trumpeter clifford Brown, saxophonist Harold land and trumpets maynard Ferguson and Clark Terry, Dinah delivers ballads and show tunes, the extended cuts of “lover come back to me” And “you go to my head” Showing the best of her and the band's abilities.