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Anita O'Day / Anita O'Day.

By: O'Day, Anita [performer].
Contributor(s): Harris, Gene, 1933-2000 [performer] | Simpkins, Andy [instrumentalist] | Dowdy, Bill, 1932-2017 [performer] | Giuffre, Jimmy [instrumentalist] | Tjader, Cal [performer] | Russ Garcia Orchestra [performer] | Gary McFarland Orchestra [performer] | Three Sounds (Musical group) [performer] | Billy May Orchestra [performer].
Material type: materialTypeLabelMusicSeries: Jazz masters (New York, N.Y.): 49.Publisher: New York : Verve, [1995]Description: 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.Content type: performed music Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discSubject(s): Jazz -- 1951-1960 | Jazz -- 1961-1970 | Jazz vocalsDDC classification: CD-JZ/ODA-JAZ
Contents:
That old feeling -- Boogie blues -- Angel eyes -- Fly me to the moon ("in other words") -- (Ah, the apple trees) When the world was young -- Ten cents a dance -- Easy come, easy go -- No soap, no hope blues -- Just in time -- Old devil moon -- A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square -- Them there eyes -- If the moon turns green -- Johnny one note -- Waiter, make mine blues -- What is this thing called love?
Anita O'Day, vocals ; Russ Garcia's Orchestra ; Gary McFarland's Orchestra ; Gene Harris, piano ; Andrew Simpkins, bass ; Three Sounds ; Bill Dowdy, drums ; Billy May's Orchestra ; Jimmy Giuffre's Orchestra ; Cal Tjader, vibraphone
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library CD CD-JZ/ODA-JAZ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00207385
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is an excellent one-disc roundup of Anita O'Day's output for Clef, Norgan and Verve -- arguably her most important, most experimental period -- and it is especially valuable because Anita and her manager Alan Eichler made the selections themselves. It was during this decade of activity that O'Day made the transition from a spent former big-band thrush to an acclaimed jazz diva, despite the turmoil in her personal life and her feeling that she was playing second-fiddle to Ella in Norman Granz' recording stable. The selection is remarkably wide-ranging, sampling from twelve of O'Day's sixteen albums for Granz and his successor at Verve, Creed Taylor, with lots of loosely swinging mid- and uptempo numbers and ballads that can be alternately world-wise and innocent. Among the many highlights that illustrate the diversity of O'Day's Verve period are "No Soap, No Hope Blues," from O'Day's first rare ten-inch album for Granz; her saucy remake of "Boogie Blues" with the innovative Gary McFarland orchestra; and the sexy, swaggering title track of Waiter, Make Mine Blues. Anyone seeking an entryway into the tough yet vulnerable song world of Anita O'Day will get a lot of helpful direction from this album. ~ Richard S. Ginell

That old feeling -- Boogie blues -- Angel eyes -- Fly me to the moon ("in other words") -- (Ah, the apple trees) When the world was young -- Ten cents a dance -- Easy come, easy go -- No soap, no hope blues -- Just in time -- Old devil moon -- A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square -- Them there eyes -- If the moon turns green -- Johnny one note -- Waiter, make mine blues -- What is this thing called love?

Anita O'Day, vocals ; Russ Garcia's Orchestra ; Gary McFarland's Orchestra ; Gene Harris, piano ; Andrew Simpkins, bass ; Three Sounds ; Bill Dowdy, drums ; Billy May's Orchestra ; Jimmy Giuffre's Orchestra ; Cal Tjader, vibraphone

Recorded from 1952 -1962.

Compact disc