Dee Alexander Explained

Deleatrice "Dee" Alexander is an American jazz singer. She is a member of the AACM and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2013.^[1]

Alexander is the host of Sunday Jazz with Dee Alexander, a radio show on WDCB and the WFMT Radio Network.^[2]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

• Live at the Hothouse (self-released, 2004)
• Wild Is the Wind (Blujazz, 2009)
• Sketches of Light (EGEA-UJ, 2012)
• Songs My Mother Loves (Blujazz, 2014)
• It's Too Hot For Words (Delmark, 2019) with the Metropolitan Jazz Octet

With the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective

• On the Way to be Free (JF Music, 2022)

With Ernest Dawkins

• Misconception of a Delusion Shades of a Charade (Dawk, 2005)
• Memory in the Center (Dawk Music, 2014)

With Hamid Drake and Bindu

• Blissful (RogueArt, 2008)

With Douglas Ewart

• Velvet Fire: Dedicated to Baba Fred Anderson (Aarawak, 2009)

With Ramsey Lewis

• Urban Knights VII (Ropeadope, 2019)

With R. Kelly

• Happy People/U Saved Me (Jive, 2004)

With Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy)

• Beware (Drag City, 2009)

With Malachi Thompson

• 47th Street (Delmark, 1997)
• Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1999)
• Blue Jazz (Delmark, 2003) with Gary Bartz and Billy Harper

Notes and References

1. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/dee-alexander-jazz-songs-mother-loves-3arts/Content?oid=14351016 Will Chicago's most daring and virtuosic jazz singer finally get the recognition she deserves?
2. Web site: Dee Alexander has a new 'Sunday Jazz' radio show. Howard. Reich. Chicagotribune.com. 25 April 2017 . January 27, 2020.