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.Will Chicago's most daring and virtuosic jazz singer finally get the recognition she deserves?. Chicago Reader, July 23, 2014.
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
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