Dinah Washington

BD Jazz

2 CD + 1 Bande dessinée

Dinah Washington

Elle mena en quelques trop courtes années plusieurs carrières à la fois. Sa culture, entre église et cabaret, sa voix salée-sucrée, entre cri et confidence, sa vie tumultueuse et sa grande conscience professionnelle lui permirent de chanter le blues comme personne, de combler les amateurs de rhythm and blues et de se retrouver ainsi au sommet des « hit parades », tandis que le fan de jazz la retrouvait régulièrement au milieu de ses héros, Clifford Brown, Wynton Kelly, Clark Terry, Ben Webster et cent autres. Au pays du jazz, en tout cas, Dinah compte, avec quelques autres, parmi celles, rares, qui ont ébranlé le vieux mythe de la sainte Trinité Billie-Ella-Sarah.

In a few short years she enjoyed several different careers. Her cultural background, which embraced Church and Cabaret, plus her sweet-and-sour voice - moving from a cry to a confidential whisper -, her tumultuous career and extreme professionalism, all contributed to her singing the blues like no-one else. She made legions of rhythm and blues fans happy by topping the hit-parades, and jazz fans regularly delighted in her feats alongside musicians who were heroes : Clifford Brown, Wynton Kelly, Clark Terry, Ben Webster and a hundred others. Whatever the domain, however, Dinah, along with a few, rare, other vocalists, will always be remembered as the singer who caused a myth to tremble : the Holy Trinity of Billie, Ella, Sarah.

CD1 Dinah Washington (1945-1955)

1 Blow top blues 3'19

2 Wise woman blues 2'51

3 My lovin' papa 3'07

4 Blues for a day 2'53

5 The man I love 3'02

6 Oo wee walkie talkie 2'59

7 Resolution blues 3'20

8 Record ban blues 3'20

9 Long John blues 3'11

10 Please send me someone to love 3'00

11 I'm a fool to want you 2'40

12 Trouble in mind 2'53

13 In the evening, when the sun goes down 2'17

14 I cried for you 2'30

15 Am I blue 3'13

16 I've got you under my skin 5'32

17 No more 3'22

18 Lover, come back to me 10'00

19 Come rain or come shine 2'32

20 Teach me tonight 2'43

21 You don't know what love is 4'02

22 Blue gardenia 5'18

Durée totale 78'42

CD2 Dinah Washington (1955-1959)

1 There'll be some changes made 3'00

2 Ill wind 3'36

3 Willow weep for me 3'25

4 A sunday kind of love 3'17

5 There'll be a jubilee 2'07

6 You let my love grow old 2'29

7 Somebody loves me 2'32

8 Is you is or is you ain't my baby 2'58

9 Never let me go 2'43

10 Blues down home 2'49

11 Black and blue 2'58

12 Make me a present of you 2'50

13 Somewhere along the line 2'56

14 Back water blues 3'00

15 'Tain't nobody's business if I do 3'26

16 Squeeze me 2'09

17 Trombone butter 3'36

18 Careless love 3'34

19 After you've gone 3'36

20 If I could be with you 2'49

21 Trouble in mind 2'24

22 What a difference a day made 2'29

23 Cry me a river 2'27

24 Unforgettable 2'45

Durée totale 70'46