Dinah Washington: Great Women Of Song: Dinah Washington Format:1LP Just Friends

Just Friends

For 1965's I Want To Hold Your Hand they subtly changed their palette again by adding tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley into the mix

and Ray Barretto on congas

the legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen

Dinah Washington: Great Women Of Song: Dinah Washington Format:1LP Just FriendsVerve, 2023 As Duke Ellington would have said, Dinah Washington was "beyond category". Subtle and inventive enough to hold an honored place in the jazz pantheon yet tough and forceful enough to command the attention of blues, R&B and rock & roll audiences. Equally at ease performing Broadway songs, pop tunes or jazz material, Washington combined urbane finesse with down home grit to make music that reflected her strong willed, larger than life