Ledisi - For Dinah
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Vocals – Ledisi
Baritone Saxophone – Carl Maraghi (A3-4)
Bass – Christian McBride (A1 to B2, B4)
Bass Trombone – Doug Purviance (A3-4)
Cello – Sarah Hewitt-Roth (B1, B4)
Drums – McClenty Hunter (A1 to B2, B4)
Guitar – Rodney Jones (A3-4)
Piano – Michael King (A1-2, B1-2, B4), Xavier Davis (A3-4)
Saxophone – Dan Pratt (A3-4), Ron Blake (A3-4), Steve Wilson (A3-4), Todd Bashore (A3-4)
Trombone – James Burton III (A3-4), Michael Dease (A3-4), Steve Davis (A3-4)
Trumpet – Alex Norris (A3-4), Frank Greene (A3-4), Freddie Hendrix (A3-4), Nebate Isles* (A3-4)
Violin, Viola – Lisa Matricardi (B1, B4), Yuko Naito-Gotay (B1, B4)
Arranged by Christian McBride (A1-2, A4 to B2, B4), Quincy Jones (A3), Ledisi (B3), Paul Jackson Jr. (B3)
Written by Maria Grever (A1), Stanley Adams (A1), Dinah Washington (A2), Juanita Hill (A2), Edward K. Ellington (A3), Irving Mills (A3), Juan Tizol (A3), Cole Porter (A4), Don Raye (B1), Gene De Paul (B1), Clyde Otis (B2), Murray Stein (B2), Haven Gillespie (B3), Fred Coots (B3), Clyde Otis (B4), Max Richter (B4)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Unspecified
Label : Candid
Original Label : Candid
Recorded at The Greene Room by Rex Rideout, Todd Whitelock
Mixed by Todd Whitelock
Produced by Ledisi, Christian McBride, Rex Rideout
Executive Producer – John Burk
Mastered by Reuben Cohen
Liner Notes by Ledisi
Artwork & photography by Ron T. Young
Originally released in October 2025
Tracks :
Side A
1. What A Difference A Day Made
2. If I Never Get To Heaven
3. Caravan
4. Let’s Do It
Side B
1. You Don’t Know What Love Is featuring Christian McBride
2. You’ve Got What It Takes featuring Gregory Porter
3. You Go To My Head featuring Paul Jackson, Jr.
4. The Bitter Earth
Reviews :
“Ledisi's second album of 2025, For Dinah can also be seen as a follow-up to Ledisi Sings Nina, her Grammy-nominated homage to Nina Simone. The singer's bond with the music of Dinah Washington began to form when she heard it through her mother. It was strengthened through her jazz studies at UC Berkeley and has continued throughout her career, culminating in this thoughtful interpretive set she produced beside top-tier bassist Christian McBride and Rex Rideout, her longtime collaborator. Like Ledisi Sings Nina, For Dinah is both reverent and creative. Although brass and string sections fill out the sound in all the right places, this is considerably more intimate with Ledisi backed primarily by a trio: McBride on bass, McClenty Hunter on drums, and either Xavier Davis or the emergent Mike King on piano. The players are especially sparing on Ledisi's pensive reading of "What a Difference a Day Made," while only guitarist Paul Jackson, Jr. accompanies the singer on "You Go to My Head," evoking a cool, gentle breeze. Ledisi is most captivating on the numbers that are more sensual and/or energized. Her performance of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It" is off the meter, too poised and nuanced to be heard as pure camp. "You've Got What It Takes" is duly rollicking like the original, a number five pop hit in 1960, and aptly pairs Ledisi with Gregory Porter (her Black Radio III duet partner) in Brook Benton's role. In "If I Never Get to Heaven," the only song on the set that Washington co-wrote, Ledisi takes the album's greatest artistic license with a dazzling scat solo and somehow finishes it out in even more commanding fashion. A rousing "You Don't Know What Love Is" and an impeccable reading of the ever-relevant "This Bitter Earth" are among the high points of the album and quite possibly Ledisi's catalog. Further testament to Washington's body of work is that the selections here overlap only slightly with those of Aretha Franklin's Unforgettable, Yvette Freeman's A Tribute to Dinah Washington, and Deborah Cox's Destination Moon. In the hands of Ledisi and company, these songs are brimming with as much spirit in 2025 as they did 61 years earlier, when Franklin released her Washington tribute album.” AllMusic Review by Andy Kellman
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 4.9 / 5