{{short description|American jazz singer}} thumb|Alexander in 2015 '''Deleatrice '''"'''Dee'''"''' Alexander''' is an American jazz singer. She is a member of the AACM and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2013.<ref>[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/dee-alexander-jazz-songs-mother-loves-3arts/Content?oid=14351016 Will Chicago's most daring and virtuosic jazz singer finally get the recognition she deserves?]. ''Chicago Reader'', July 23, 2014.</ref>
Alexander is the host of ''Sunday Jazz with Dee Alexander'', a syndicated radio show on the WFMT Radio Network's Jazz Network.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-dee-alexander-sunday-jazz-radio-show-20170425-story.html|title=Dee Alexander has a new 'Sunday Jazz' radio show|first=Howard|last=Reich|website=Chicagotribune.com|date=25 April 2017 |accessdate=January 27, 2020}}</ref>
==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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