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What a difference O'Day makes!!
AVID Jazz here presents four classic Anita O'Day albums on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. `Anita Sings The Most', `The Lady Is A Tramp', `An Evening With Anita O'Day' and `Anita'.
Born in Chicago, Anita O'Day cut her musical teeth in the 1940's playing with the Gene Krupa Band and the Stan Kenton Band during which time she had her first widespread successes with `And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine' and `Tampico' which allowed her to head out on her own as a single act.
Using a wide range of musical accompanists including the Oscar Peterson Trio, Barney Kessel Jimmy Rowles, Tal Farlow and Roy Eldridge, our four classic albums highlight a unique singing talent that put Anita up there with Billie, Ella and Mildred Bailey and went on to influence such great singers as June Christy and Chris Connor.
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
AVID Jazz here presents four classic Anita O'Day albums on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. `Anita Sings The Most', `The Lady Is A Tramp', `An Evening With Anita O'Day' and `Anita'.
Born in Chicago, Anita O'Day cut her musical teeth in the 1940's playing with the Gene Krupa Band and the Stan Kenton Band during which time she had her first widespread successes with `And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine' and `Tampico' which allowed her to head out on her own as a single act.
Using a wide range of musical accompanists including the Oscar Peterson Trio, Barney Kessel Jimmy Rowles, Tal Farlow and Roy Eldridge, our four classic albums highlight a unique singing talent that put Anita up there with Billie, Ella and Mildred Bailey and went on to influence such great singers as June Christy and Chris Connor.
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
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CD-1:1-Tenderly 2-Old Devil Moon 3-Love Me Or Leave Me 4-We'll Be Together Again 5-Stella By Starlight 6-Taking A Chance On Love 7-Them There Eyes 8-I've Got The World On A String 9-You Turned The Tables On Me 10-Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 11-Rock 'N' Roll Blues 12-Love For Sale 13-Lullaby Of The Leaves 14-Lover Come Back To Me 15-No Soap, No Hope Blues 16-Speak Low 17-Pagan Love Song 18-Ain't This A Wonderful Day 19-Somebody's Crying 20-Vaya Con Dios 21-The Lady Is A Tramp 22-Strawberry Moon CD-2:1-Just One Of Those Things 2-Gypsy In My Soul 3-The Man I Love 4-Frankie And Johnny 5-Anita's Blues 6-I Cover The Waterfront 7-You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me 8-From This Moment On 9-You Don't Know What Love Is 10-There Will Never Be Another You/...(Medley) 11-I Didn't Know What Time It Was 12-Let's Fall In Love 13-You're The Top 14-Honeysuckle Rose 15-A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 16-Who Cares? 17-I Can't Get Started 18-Fine And Dandy 19-As Long As I Live 20-No Moon At All 21-Time After Time 22-I'll See You In My Dreams 23-I Fall In Love Too Easily 24-Beautiful Love (2008/AVID) 47 tracks 1954/55
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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This 4-albums-in-two-cds package was one of the best buys in my life...
I got it on UK amazon for the price smaller than the price of ANY of these single albums!
Starting with "Anita sings the most", I can say that it's no wonder that album is often mentioned as one of the best in Anita O'Day's rich and long career; working beautifully with Oscar Peterson classic trio (Herb Ellis-g, Ray Brown-b) plus John Pool on drums, Anita is equally impressive in slower tempos and in her trademark neck-breaking hyper-swinging elloquence...
One of the strength's of this magnificent singer is a strong individuality, ability to make every song a part of her hip and sometimes even sarcastic worldview... Although at first her style might remind you of Ella Fitzgerald, the liberties she takes with tempo and rhythm actually make her closer to Billie Holiday or Betty Carter, the mood she projects with her timbre makes her a distant cousin of Carmen McRae but, make no mistake, she is Anita O'Day, the one and only... With the nifty and versatile fingers of Oscar and the crew behind her, this album shouldn't have gone wrong and I feel it fullfiled its magnificent potential.
The second album "The Lady is a Tramp" is more commercially oriented; with some jazz tracks but also with very straightforward (dull) "Vaya con Dios" and quite insulting "Rock 'N' Blues" (that is, insulting to this jazz fan who couldn't believe to what lowsy use Anita and Roy Eldridge were put). That album (second part of the first CDs) has three arrangers (Ralph Burns and Roy Kral both of whom also play the piano on their respective tracks, and Larry Russell), even more musicians line-ups and no concept; it's quite anti-climactic after "Anita Sings the Most"...
However, the second CD is first class Anita all the way. The first brilliant album "An Evening with Anita O'Day" shows her working beautiful with one compact trio and two equally effective quartets, the format she often excelled in (although in the beginning of her carreer she was best known as an unorthodox big band singer):
- Arnold Ross-p, Barney Kessel-g, Monty Budwig-b, Jackie Mills-dm
- Bud Lavin-p, M. Budwig-b, John Poole-dm
- Jimmie Rowles-p, Tal Farlow-g, Leroy Vinnegar-b, Larry Bunker-dm.
She's magnificent on that album, at times ironic (Anita's Blues), at times creative beyond words ("The Man I love"), at times simply brilliant ("Frankie and Johnny", "I didn't know what time it was", "I cover the waterfront"...)...
The fourth and final album (simply called "Anita"), arranged by Buddy Bregman, presents Anita with only a slightly less swinging, but still nice company, with larger orchestra including nice brass (4 trombones - Milt Bernhart, Lloyd Ulyate,Joe Howard, Si Zentner) and, thankfully, quite unobtrusive and tastily arranged strings, plus Corky Hale on harp...
On this album Paul Smith plays piano and celeste, there are also Barney Kessel-g,Joe Mondragon-b, Alvin Stoller-dm
Starting with Cole Porter's "You're the top" (with slightly updated lyrics), Anita works through some well known songs ("Honeysuckle Rose", "A Nightingal Sang in Berkeley Square"...), giving them lovely, although not always equaly chance taking treatment ....
I've read somewhere that Anita thought Norman Granz was pushing Ella Fitzgerald too much; if it's true (and it seems to be), it's a pitty since she is Ella's equal (if not superior), but some claim that Anita's demanding character and serious drug habit prevented her from getting some gigs that Ella landed and professionally handled...
Nevertheless, Anita has still left us a nice recorded legacy as well and this edition brings us three (out of four) albums that must be near or at the peak of that legacy...
I got it on UK amazon for the price smaller than the price of ANY of these single albums!
Starting with "Anita sings the most", I can say that it's no wonder that album is often mentioned as one of the best in Anita O'Day's rich and long career; working beautifully with Oscar Peterson classic trio (Herb Ellis-g, Ray Brown-b) plus John Pool on drums, Anita is equally impressive in slower tempos and in her trademark neck-breaking hyper-swinging elloquence...
One of the strength's of this magnificent singer is a strong individuality, ability to make every song a part of her hip and sometimes even sarcastic worldview... Although at first her style might remind you of Ella Fitzgerald, the liberties she takes with tempo and rhythm actually make her closer to Billie Holiday or Betty Carter, the mood she projects with her timbre makes her a distant cousin of Carmen McRae but, make no mistake, she is Anita O'Day, the one and only... With the nifty and versatile fingers of Oscar and the crew behind her, this album shouldn't have gone wrong and I feel it fullfiled its magnificent potential.
The second album "The Lady is a Tramp" is more commercially oriented; with some jazz tracks but also with very straightforward (dull) "Vaya con Dios" and quite insulting "Rock 'N' Blues" (that is, insulting to this jazz fan who couldn't believe to what lowsy use Anita and Roy Eldridge were put). That album (second part of the first CDs) has three arrangers (Ralph Burns and Roy Kral both of whom also play the piano on their respective tracks, and Larry Russell), even more musicians line-ups and no concept; it's quite anti-climactic after "Anita Sings the Most"...
However, the second CD is first class Anita all the way. The first brilliant album "An Evening with Anita O'Day" shows her working beautiful with one compact trio and two equally effective quartets, the format she often excelled in (although in the beginning of her carreer she was best known as an unorthodox big band singer):
- Arnold Ross-p, Barney Kessel-g, Monty Budwig-b, Jackie Mills-dm
- Bud Lavin-p, M. Budwig-b, John Poole-dm
- Jimmie Rowles-p, Tal Farlow-g, Leroy Vinnegar-b, Larry Bunker-dm.
She's magnificent on that album, at times ironic (Anita's Blues), at times creative beyond words ("The Man I love"), at times simply brilliant ("Frankie and Johnny", "I didn't know what time it was", "I cover the waterfront"...)...
The fourth and final album (simply called "Anita"), arranged by Buddy Bregman, presents Anita with only a slightly less swinging, but still nice company, with larger orchestra including nice brass (4 trombones - Milt Bernhart, Lloyd Ulyate,Joe Howard, Si Zentner) and, thankfully, quite unobtrusive and tastily arranged strings, plus Corky Hale on harp...
On this album Paul Smith plays piano and celeste, there are also Barney Kessel-g,Joe Mondragon-b, Alvin Stoller-dm
Starting with Cole Porter's "You're the top" (with slightly updated lyrics), Anita works through some well known songs ("Honeysuckle Rose", "A Nightingal Sang in Berkeley Square"...), giving them lovely, although not always equaly chance taking treatment ....
I've read somewhere that Anita thought Norman Granz was pushing Ella Fitzgerald too much; if it's true (and it seems to be), it's a pitty since she is Ella's equal (if not superior), but some claim that Anita's demanding character and serious drug habit prevented her from getting some gigs that Ella landed and professionally handled...
Nevertheless, Anita has still left us a nice recorded legacy as well and this edition brings us three (out of four) albums that must be near or at the peak of that legacy...
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Chances are you know Anita O Day well if you read this review. So in that case, I think you ought to buy this double CD. It is great value for money. If you don't know her I think you should give this music a chance. Anita O Day is a great vocalist and there is some great music on these CD's.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Well, I like a lot Frank Sinatra's way of singing and finding these excellent recordings allowed me to meet his alter ego among female vocalists. Anita O'Day phrasing is very intelligent and one remains under the spell of her delivery throughout this sensational presentation of her talent. Highly recommended.
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