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| Released | October 3, 2025 (2025-10-03) | |||
| Genre | Jazz,traditional pop | |||
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For Dinah is the thirteenth studio album by American singerLedisi. The album was released on October 3, 2025, by her record label Listen Back Entertainment and distributed byCandid Records.[1]For Dinah is atribute album to American singerDinah Washington.
She [Dinah] gave me permission to move freely, create freely, be a woman in leadership, wear and say what I want. Before there wasAretha, there was Dinah. She deserves to be recognized in today's music as well. I felt her pain, her rejection. This is where I come from — and this is my way of saying her name out loud.
Following the conclusion of theLove You Too Tour, Ledisi announced her next album would titledFor Dinah; a tribute album to American singerDinah Washington to be released on October 3, 2025.[3] The concept of album originated from an idea, eight years prior to the recording of the album.[4]
In a press release, Ledisi stated that Dinah Washington had been a major impact on her since adolescence.[3] She recalled her mother playing Washington's music around their house.[3]
The entire album was produced by American music producer Rex Rideout and American jazz musicianChristian McBride.[3] The album also features McBride as a guest musician on thejazz standard "You Don't Know What Love Is".[3] In addition to Dinah Washington's original songs, Ledisi recorded several songs made popular by Washington.
American singerGregory Porter performed a duet with Ledisi on the song "You've Got What It Takes"; originally recorded by Washington andBrook Benton.[3] American musicianPaul Jackson Jr. also appears on the song "You Go to My Head".[3] Ledisi also enlisted in additional musicians including Sara Hewitt-Roth, McClenty Hunter Jr, Michael King, Yuko Naito-Gotay, Lisa Matricardi, and Antoine Silverman.
The album is scheduled to be released on October 3, 2025, by her record label Listen Back Entertainment and distributed byCandid Records.[2] In addition to physical compact disc and digital formats, autographed copies of the album were also made available during the pre-order ofFor Dinah.
"This Bitter Earth" was released the album's lead single on July 18, 2025. Rather than release the song in traditional single format, the song was made available to stream on digital music platforms along with the pre-order of the album. An in-studio performance video, directed by Ron T. Young, was released to Ledisi's social media platforms.[2] On August 22, 2025, she released "What a Difference a Day Makes" as the album's second single.[5][6] Like its predecessor, the song did not receive a formal release as a single but rather made available to stream on digital music platforms with the pre-order of the album.
In July 2025, Ledisi announced that she would embark on a concert tour, titledLedisi for Dinah Tour.[2] The concert tour began on October 2, 2025, inChandler, Arizona and concluded on October 6, 2025, inSan Francisco, California. The final show was reviewed by Andrew Gilbert for theSan Francisco Chronicle. The concert performance received a mixed review as Gilbert praised several of her traditional arrangements but felt the "slyly funky arrangement of 'This Bitter Earth,' which brought to mind theAhmad Jamal Trio, was less successful, sapping the song of some of its devastating, self-dramatizing loneliness."[7]
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For Dinah received generally positive reviews frommusic critics. Andy Kellman ofAllMusic referred to the album as "reverent and creative", comparing it to Ledisi's past albumLedisi Sings Nina.[1]
For Dinah debuted at number seventeen onBillboard'sJazz Albums chart and number fifteen on theTraditional Jazz Albums chart during the week of October 18, 2025.[8]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "What a Difference a Day Makes" | 4:46 |
| 2. | "If I Never Get To Heaven" | 6:06 |
| 3. | "Caravan" | 2:43 |
| 4. | "Let's Do It" | 2:57 |
| 5. | "You Don't Know What Love Is" (featuringChristian McBride) | 5:13 |
| 6. | "You've Got What It Takes" (featuringGregory Porter) | 3:19 |
| 7. | "You Go to My Head" | 3:10 |
| 8. | "This Bitter Earth" | 5:05 |
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