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