On Aug. 29, 2024, 11 years since the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center opened, and 100 years since the "Queen of the Blues" was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, an exhibit of photos and ...

Washington, who died in 1963, was born in Alabama and got her start singing in church. Throughout her relatively short, two-decade career, she boasted — and proved — that she could sing anything.

The album brought her rich, blues-informed style into the world of lush orchestral pop.

There is no short and painless way to sample the Queen at her best; you have to rush out and buy the entire works. Fortunately, it is possible to do that, on a 21-CD series from Japanese Universal ...