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 syndicated radio show on the WFMT Radio Network's Jazz Network.[2]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

With the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective

  • On the Way to be Free (JF Music, 2022)

With Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few

  • The Almighty (Division 81 Records, 2024)

With Emma Dayhuff

  • Innovations & Lineage The Chicago Project (Division 81 Records, 2025)

With Ernest Dawkins

  • Misconception of a Delusion Shades of a Charade (Dawk, 2005)
  • Memory in the Center (Dawk Music, 2014)
  • New Horizons Redux: 12-13-14-25-46: 45 Years of Great Black Music (Live the Spirit Residency)

With Hamid Drake and Bindu

With Douglas Ewart

  • Velvet Fire: Dedicated to Baba Fred Anderson (Aarawak, 2009)

With Ramsey Lewis

  • Urban Knights VII (Ropeadope, 2019)

With R. Kelly

With Malachi Thompson

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.