Dinah Washington - Mellow Mama

When Dinah Washington left Lionel Hampton's Orchestra in 1945, she recorded three sessions yielding 12 songs for Apollo Records. Dinah teamed up with Lucky Thompson who had just arrived in Los Angeles after a stint with the Basie band. Gene Porter, Charles Mingus and Lucky were playing in Happy Johnson's band in Long Beach. Milt Jackson was passing through with Diz & Bird's quintet. Lucky organized the sessions and the music is pure delight. Complete liner notes by Dempsey Travis, best-selling author of The Autobiography of Black Jazz. Delmark has acquired the rights and surviving source material of the long-out-of-print blues and jazz masters from Apollo Records.