Evil Gal Blues

Dinah Washington · 1944 (year to be confirmed) · First record on Keynote, accompanied by musicians from Lionel Hampton's band; charted in 1944.

Context

First recording by Dinah Washington, then singer with Lionel Hampton's orchestra, cut for the Keynote label in December 1943 on a composition by Leonard Feather (co-credited to Hampton). This assertive blues, carried by a 19-year-old performer, entered Billboard's Harlem Hit Parade in 1944 and launched her recording career.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Jump blues, R&B. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• What a Diff'rence a Day Makes (1959)
• This Bitter Earth (1959)

Sources

• EN: Dinah Washington
• elsewhere.co.nz

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