Anita O'Day's Finest Hour

Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day's Finest Hour

Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
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Artist: Anita O'Day
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Honeysuckle Rose
  2. Little Girl Blue - Billy May Orchestra, Anita O'Day
  3. Let Me Off Uptown - Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day
  4. Occasional Man
  5. Four Brothers - Anita O'Day, Marty Paich
  6. Tea for Two
  7. Boogie Blues
  8. God Bless the Child
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Billy May Orchestra, Anita O'Day
  10. Ballad of the Sad Young Men
  11. Way You Look Tonight
  12. When Sunny Gets Blue
  13. Peel Me a Grape
  14. Sing, Sing, Sing
  15. Them There Eyes
  16. Anita's Blues
  17. Sweet Georgia Brown
  18. Party's Over

Music reviews of Anita O'Day's Finest Hour

Music Review: An Aptly Titled CD
Rating: 5 Stars

Anita O'Day is one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. This is one of the best sinble CD presentations of her work, remembering that a single CD cannot do her justice. Nevertheless, this is aptly named, Anita O'Day's Finest Hour.

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 Broomer

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