Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
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Artist: Anita O'DayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Little Girl Blue - Billy May Orchestra, Anita O'Day
- Let Me Off Uptown - Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day
- Occasional Man
- Four Brothers - Anita O'Day, Marty Paich
- Tea for Two
- Boogie Blues
- God Bless the Child
- What Is This Thing Called Love? - Billy May Orchestra, Anita O'Day
- Ballad of the Sad Young Men
- Way You Look Tonight
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- Peel Me a Grape
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Them There Eyes
- Anita's Blues
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Party's Over
Music reviews of Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
Music Review: great compilation
Rating: 5 Stars
If you've never given Anita o'Day a try, then this is the perfect introduction to one of the great singers of the 20th century, alot of people will know who ella,sarah vaughan or billie holliay are and sound like, yet when you mention Anita you're likely to get a blank stare. Anita deserves and should be mentioned with all of the above, she was a great singer, had a totally distinctive voice, swung with the best of them and looked fantastic, if you've never seen it watch Jazz on a Summer's Day she steals the show. On this cd you get to hear some of the best versions of jazz standards recorded, believe me you won't regret buying this and once you've heard her, you'll want to hear more.
Description of Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
No jazz singer has ever swung harder or scatted with more infectious enthusiasm than Anita O'Day. This selection of her Verve recordings from 1954 to 1962 shows just how many contexts O'Day could enliven with her presence. Some of her earliest hits are heard here in reprised but still effective form. The 1956 version of "Let Me Off Uptown," with partners Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge, rekindles its original energy, and arranger Gary McFarland creates a driving 1961 revision of "Boogie Blues." She's clearly comfortable at the fastest tempos, singing "Tea for Two" and "Them There Eyes" at breakneck speed, enjoying matching improvisational wits with an elite assortment of musicians including Oscar Peterson and Phil Woods. A few ballads, like "God Bless the Child" with just Barney Kessel's guitar for accompaniment, provide effective contrast. O'Day is terrific, also, on two wittily steamy selections with Cal Tjader from 1962, "An Occasional Man" and "Peel Me a Grape." --Stuart BroomerTraditional Vocal Pop CDs
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