Ledisi‘s second album of 2025, For Dinah can also be seen as a follow-up to Ledisi Sings Nina, her Grammy-nominated homage to Nina Simone. The singer’s bond with the music of Dinah Washington began to form when she heard it through her mother. It was strengthened through her jazz studies at UC Berkeley and has continued throughout her career, culminating in this thoughtful interpretive set she produced beside top-tier bassist Christian McBride and Rex Rideout, her longtime collaborator. Like Ledisi Sings Nina, For Dinah is both reverent and creative. Although brass and string sections fill out the sound in all the right places, this is considerably more intimate with Ledisi backed primarily by a trio: McBride on bass, McClenty Hunter on drums,..

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