Newport '58

This article is about the Dinah Washington album. For other albums of the same / similar title, see Newport 1958 (disambiguation).

Newport '58
Live album by Dinah Washington
Released	1958
Recorded	July 6, 1958
Genre	Vocal jazz
Label	EmArcy
Dinah Washington chronology
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (1958) Newport '58 (1958) What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (1959)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Mercury Records Collection	[1]
allmusic	[2]

Newport '58 is a first live album by vocalist Dinah Washington. It was recorded on July 6, 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, and arranged by Melba Liston.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:16
2. "Backwater Blues" (Bessie Smith) – 4:33
3. "Crazy Love" (Sammy Cahn, Phil Tuminello) – 3:27
4. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 5:18
5. "Backstage Blues" (Instrumental) (Don Elliott, Terry Gibbs, Urbie Green) – 9:10
6. "Julie and Jake" (Instrumental) (Gibbs) – 8:40

Outtakes

2 previously unreleased tracks included in The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 5 (1956–1958) CD (1991).^[4]

• "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" (George Brooks, Fletcher Henderson) – 3:53
• "Me and My Gin" (Harry Burke) – 3:26

Personnel

• Dinah Washington – vocals, vibraphone
• Blue Mitchell – trumpet
• Melba Liston – trombone, arranger
• Urbie Green – trombone
• Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone
• Harold Ousley – tenor saxophone
• Terry Gibbs – vibraphone
• Don Elliott – vibraphone, mellophone
• Wynton Kelly – piano
• Paul West – bass
• Max Roach – drums
• Jack Tracy – producer

See also

• "Jazz on a Summer's Day" – the film also features "All of Me" performed by Washington.

References

1. "Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36141: Newport '58".
2. Newport (1958) at AllMusic. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
3. "Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36141: Newport '58".
4. The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 5 (1956–1958) at AllMusic. Retrieved August 15, 2012.