Sunday Jazz – Aretha Franklin

No your eyes didn’t deceive you…….yes Aretha Franklin is featured today in Sunday Jazz.

Partly to make up for me bending the genres yesterday to include Louis Jordan in Saturday Soul as the song “Old Age” was appropriate for my birthday I hereby re-address the balance by adding a touch of soul into Sunday Jazz.

Aretha was and remains the Queen of Soul, however, in 1964 she recorded an album called “Unforgettable A Tribute to Dinah Washington” and like Dinah Washington hereself it was a varied collection including a cover of Hank Williams “Cold Cold Heart”  stretching the boundaries of R&B, Blues and Jazz and remains a must have album, though often neglected within Aretha’s vast bounty of recordings.

As Aretha said on the original sleeve notes “I hope this album will give people some idea of the way I felt and will always feel about Dinah”

Here is the title track

“Unforgettable” – Aretha Franklin

To buy the music of Aretha Franklin click HERE

 

To buy the music of Dinah Washington click HERE