As a child, Chicago jazz singer Dee Alexander learned to love the music of Dinah Washington, which her mother liked to play on Sundays as she did the ironing. Credit: Raymond Mays Dinah Washington ...

Also speaking at the Dinah Washington Day ceremony was Richard Lane ... Though Jones moved from Tuscaloosa to Chicago while still a child, with her family, the extended family still holds the ...

In 2005, a Chicago park near where Washington had lived as a child was renamed Dinah Washington Park. More:Do you know these four musicians with Tuscaloosa ties? Though she moved with family to ...

She was renamed Dinah Washington, and Hamp took her on the road ... She could be the "Smart Women, Foolish Choices" poster child (although considering the circles in which a nightclub singer ...

Singer Dinah Washington, the Grammy-winning "Queen of the Jukeboxes," left her turbulent life behind at the tender age of 39. In that short period, a volatile mix of undeniable talent and deep ...

What a Diff'rence a Day Makes, released in 1959, was her biggest record, and not a single person who knew Dinah Washington could describe her any better than that. Her temperament was so ...

The versatile vocalist Dinah Washington was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa Alabama on August 29th 1924. She grew up in Chicago where her family moved in 1928. Her mother was heavily involved in ...