We remember George Melly. ‘Melly Mellowed’
This day (July 5, 2007), in London, England, died George Melly, an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. (more…)
Dinah Washington records ‘Dinah Sings Bessie Smith,’ an album for Emarcy (1957)
Dinah Washington‘s ‘Dinah Sings Bessie Smith’ is an album recorded on December 30, 1957 and January 20, 1958.
This week In Jazz Legends 52/52
How well do you know the music of Chet Baker, Helen Merrill, Dinah Washington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans , Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Sttit, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Freddie Hubbard, Weather Report, Duke Ellington ? Take our 12-track quiz.