Albums: Collection 2cds From A True J, Dinah Washington - Very Best Of, After Hours with Miss D

Dinah Washington, she is known as the "Queen of the Blues".Washington was born Ruth Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 1962, Dinah hired a backing trio that called themselves the Allegros. The male trio consisted of Jimmy Thomas on drums, Earl Edwards on sax, and Jimmy Sigler on organ.

Edwards was eventually replaced by John Payne on sax. A Variety writer praised their vocals as "effective choruses".They became close to the singer and saw her the night she died.Washington was married eight times and divorced seven times, while having several lovers, including, according to Patti Austin, Quincy Jones.She had two children. Her husbands were John Young (1942–43), George Jenkins (1949), Walter Buchanan (1950), saxophonist Eddie Chamblee (1957), Rafael Campos (1957), Horatio Maillard (1959–60), Jackie Hayes (1960), and Dick "Night Train" Lane (1963).

Very early on the morning of December 14, 1963, Dinah's eighth husband, NFL player Dick "Night Train" Lane went to sleep with his wife and awoke later to find Dinah slumped over and not responsive. Doctor B. C. Ross came to the scene to pronounce her dead.

An autopsy later showed a lethal combination of secobarbital and amobarbital which contributed to her untimely death at the age of 39. She is buried in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington is a 1964 album recorded by Aretha Franklin as a tribute.

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