The Fabulous Miss D: The Keynote, Decca, & Mercury Singles 1943-1953

The Fabulous Miss D! is highlighted by Washington's biggest chart hits, including "Evil Gal Blues," "Ain't Misbehavin'," "West Side Baby," "Am I Asking Too Much" (her first R&B chart No. 1), the two-sided smash "Baby Get Lost"/"Long John Blues," "Trouble In Mind," and many more. She was backed by the leading lights of the studio jazz musicians in New York and Chicago, including Ray Brown, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, Keter Betts and others. All of the songs have been significantly restored and remastered, making Dinah's voice--one moment surging with sincerity and the next snapping like a whip--sound better than ever.

The music is housed in another fantastic Verve Select package. It's a slip-case set the same size as the previously released and critically acclaimed releases from Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole. The same standards of information and visual extras are in place: rare original photographs-- including a few never seen before; detailed annotations; a chronological rendering of Dinah's sessions; and an alphabetical index to help find your favorites in the set. Tying it all together is an entertaining and informative essay by Marc Myers of JazzWax, who interviewed some of Dinah's surviving contemporaries.

Dinah Washington - Fabulous!