Dee Alexander

Dee Alexander
American jazz singer

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

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

References

  1. ^ Will Chicago's most daring and virtuosic jazz singer finally get the recognition she deserves?. Chicago Reader, July 23, 2014.
  2. ^ Reich, Howard (25 April 2017). "Dee Alexander has a new 'Sunday Jazz' radio show". Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
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