Dee Alexander

Dee Alexander

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

• 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

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.