There’s a photograph of Dinah Washington that I’ve been obsessing over lately. According to the Michael Ochs Archives, it was taken at a church service in Newport, Rhode Island, while she was in town for the jazz fest in July of 1958. As we all engage in centennial genuflection — Washington, aka Ruth Lee Jones, was born in Tuscaloosa on Aug. 29, 1924 — …
Hail the Queen
Contemplating Dinah Washington at 100.
