Dinah Washington - Dinah Jams (TLP-5500)

Artist: Dinah Washington
Title: Dinah Jams
Catalog #: TLP-5500
Label: EmArcy Records
Year: 1955
Format: LP
Condition: VG+

Recorded in 1954 and released in 1955 on EmArcy, Dinah Jams is one of the great jazz vocal documents of the decade. Washington is surrounded by an all-star cast — Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Clark Terry, and Maynard Ferguson among them — in a loose, live-in-the-studio session that captures her at her most spontaneous and swinging. The interplay between Washington and Brown in particular is extraordinary; his trumpet lines curl around her phrases with a tenderness that makes the whole record feel intimate despite the firepower on the bandstand. This VG+ copy plays cleanly — a significant jazz collectible and one of the essential Dinah Washington titles for any serious vocal jazz archive.