Rok, I think you have this spectacular CD by Dinah Washington; it's "Dinah Jams"
I've told this story so many times that you would think that I actually saw Dinah perform, but I was a teenager and too young to go to nightclubs at that time; never the less, just being in the vicinity of "The Queen" is something worth recalling, especially now.
I was walking down Cottage Grove on the South Side one afternoon, when I saw a crowd of people around an automobile. This was in 56, and no one had ever seen this particular model of automobile. It just happened to be Dinah Washington's car, but even if it had been my car, people would have still been crowded around it, the car was just that out of sight; a new Lincoln Continental Mark with the built in spare on the trunk; it was the most expensive US automobile made at that time.
The car was parked in front of the Pershing Lounge, where Ahmad Jamal led the house band, and she probably just stopped in with friends for a cocktail, or maybe was conducting business with the management, who knows? When you add all of those things together, you can see just how fantastic that moment was, and well worth recalling now that I'm listening to a new record by Dinah.
It's so unfortunate that she died from a pill reaction, not a pill overdose, when her chaotic life had finally settled down to perfection; she was with her last husband who was also her perfect mate when death struck.
As Fats Waller said, "One never knows, do one?