ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS DINAH WASHINGTON with the QUINCY JONES ORCHESTRA: THE SWINGIN MISS D The complete classic album, The Swingin Miss D, reuniting Dinah Washingtons superb vocals with the arranging talents of Quincy Jones. The album is considered their greatest collaborative work. As a bonus, all the other songs recorded at the same sessions (tracks 12 to 14), as well as seven jazz standards from one of their 1955 dates (tracks 15 to 21) are included in this special edition. Included here are Dinahs wonderful renditions of Blue Gardenia and Ill Close My Eyes, both selected by Clint Eastwood for the soundtrack of his movie, The Bridges of Madison County. QUOTE: Orchestra Dinah had a voice that was like the pipes of life. She could take any melody in her hand, hold it like an egg, crack it open, fry it, let it sizzle, reconstruct it, put the egg back in the box and back in the refrigerator, and you would have still understood every single syllable of every single word she sang. Every single melody she sang she made hers. Once she put her soulful trademark on a song, she owned it and it was never the same." QUINCY JONES DINAH WASHINGTON, vocals QUINCY JONES, conductor on all tracks: BIG BAND: Clark Terry, Charlie Shavers (tp), Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Quentin Jackson (tb), Lucky Thompson, Budd Johnson, Jerome Richardson (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson and Jimmy Cobb (d), among others. New York, December1956.