Newport '58

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Newport '58
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Live album by
Released1958
RecordedJuly 6, 1958
Genre Vocal jazz
Label EmArcy
Dinah Washington chronology
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith
(1958)
Newport '58
(1958)
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
(1959)
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Newport '58 is a first live album by vocalist Dinah Washington. It was recorded on July 6, 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, and arranged by Melba Liston. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 2:16
  2. "Backwater Blues" (Bessie Smith) - 4:33
  3. "Crazy Love" (Sammy Cahn, Phil Tuminello) - 3:27
  4. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 5:18
  5. "Backstage Blues" (Instrumental) (Don Elliott, Terry Gibbs, Urbie Green) - 9:10
  6. "Julie and Jake" (Instrumental) (Gibbs) - 8:40

Outtakes

2 previously unreleased tracks included in The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 5 (1956 - 1958) CD (1991). [4]

Personnel

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References

  1. "Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36141: Newport '58".
  2. Newport (1958) at AllMusic. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
  3. "Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36141: Newport '58".
  4. The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 5 (1956-1958) at AllMusic . Retrieved August 15, 2012.