Dee Alexander

Deleatrice "Dee" Alexander (born 1956 or 1957) is an American jazz singer. She is a member of the AACM and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2013.

Alexander is the host of Sunday Jazz with Dee Alexander, a syndicated radio show on the WFMT Radio Network's Jazz Network.

In 2026 she was named Jazz Legacies Fellow by the Mellon Foundation

Discography

As leader or co-leader

• 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 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

• 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 Malachi Thompson

• 47th Street (Delmark, 1997)
• Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1999)
• Blue Jazz (Delmark, 2003) with Gary Bartz and Billy Harper

References