Newport '58 Explained

Newport '58
Type:	live
Artist:	Dinah Washington
Cover:	newport58.jpg
Released:	1958
Recorded:	July 6, 1958
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Label:	EmArcy
Prev Title:	Dinah Sings Bessie Smith
Prev Year:	1958
Next Title:	What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
Next Year:	1959

Newport '58 is a first live album by vocalist Dinah Washington. It was recorded on July 6, 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, and arranged by Melba Liston.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:16
2. "Backwater Blues" (Bessie Smith) – 4:33
3. "Crazy Love" (Sammy Cahn, Phil Tuminello) – 3:27
4. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 5:18
5. "Backstage Blues" (Instrumental) (Don Elliott, Terry Gibbs, Urbie Green) – 9:10
6. "Julie and Jake" (Instrumental) (Gibbs) – 8:40

Outtakes

2 previously unreleased tracks included in The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 5 (1956–1958) CD (1991).

• "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" (George Brooks, Fletcher Henderson) – 3:53
• "Me and My Gin" (Harry Burke) – 3:26

Personnel

• Dinah Washington – vocals, vibraphone
• Blue Mitchell – trumpet
• Melba Liston – trombone, arranger
• Urbie Green – trombone
• Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone
• Harold Ousley – tenor saxophone
• Terry Gibbs – vibraphone
• Don Elliott – vibraphone, mellophone
• Wynton Kelly – piano
• Paul West – bass
• Max Roach – drums
• Jack Tracy – producer

See also

• "Jazz on a Summer's Day" – the film also features "All of Me" performed by Washington.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36141: Newport '58.