Dinah Washington & Quincy Jones Orchestra - The Swingin' Miss D

The complete classic album, The Swingin' Miss D, reuniting Dinah Washington's superb vocals with the arranging talents of Quincy Jones, the album is considered their greatest collaborative work.

As a bonus, all the other songs recorded at the same sessions (tracks 12 to 14), as well as seven jazz standards from one of their 1955 dates (tracks 15 to 21) are included in this special edition. Included here are Dinah's wonderful renditions of Blue Gardenia and I'll Close My Eyes, both selected by Clint Eastwood for the soundtrack of his movie, The Bridges of Madison County.

Dinah had a voice that was like the pipes of life. She could take any melody in her hand, hold it like an egg, crack it open, fry it, let it sizzle, reconstruct it, put the egg back in the box and back in the refrigerator, and you would have still understood every single syllable of every single word she sang. Every single melody she sang she made hers. Once she put her soulful trademark on a song, she owned it and it was never the same. - Quincy Jones