Born in Alabama as Ruth Lee Jones in 1924, Ruth moved to Chicago and became involved in gospel music singing and playing piano in the school choir. At 15 she began playing in the clubs around Chicago and it wasn’t long before she found herself playing upstairs at The Garrick club at the same moment a certain Billie Holiday was entertaining the guest’s downstairs. Soon she would join the Lionel Hampton band after he had come to hear the newly named Dinah Washington perform at the club. Dinah Washington made her first recordings in 1944 and would go on to be described as “the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950’s”..................
CD1
After Hours With Miss D
1. Blue Skies
2. Bye Bye Blues
3. Am I Blue
4. Our Love Is Here To Stay
5. A Foggy Day
6. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
7. Pennies From Heaven
8. Love For Sale
For Those In Love
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. Blue Gardenia
11. Easy Living
12. You Don’t Know What Love Is
13. This Can’t Be Love
14. My Old Flame
15. I Could Write A Book
16. Make The Man I Love

CD2
Dinah Jams
1. Lover Come Back To Me
2. Alone Together
3. Summertime
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. No More
6. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
7. There Is No Greater Love
8. You Go To My Head
The Swingin’ Miss “D”
9. They Didn’t Believe Me
10. You’re Crying
11. Makin’ Whoopee
12. Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
13. But Not For Me
14. Caravan
15. Perdido
16. Never Let Me Go
17. Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t Ma Baby
18. I’ll Close My Eyes
19. Somebody Loves Me
20. You Let My Love Grow Cold (Bonus Tracks)
21. I Know (Bonus Tracks)