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All the sad young men / Anita O'Day.

By: O'Day, Anita [performer].
Contributor(s): Gary McFarland Orchestra [performer].
Material type: materialTypeLabelMusicPublisher: New York : Verve, [1998]Description: 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.Content type: performed music Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discSubject(s): Jazz vocals | Popular music -- 1961-1970DDC classification: CD-JZ/ODA-ALL
Contents:
Boogie blues / Gene Krupa and Ray Biondi -- You came a long way from St. Louis / John Benson Brooks and Sidney Russell -- I want to sing a song / Gary McFarland and Margo Guryan -- A woman alone with the blues / Williard Robison (3:16) -- The ballad of all the sad young men / Thomas Wolf, Jr. and Frances Landesman -- Do nothin' til you hear from me / Duke Ellington and Bob Russell -- One more mile / Gary McFarland and Bobby Paxton -- Night bird / Alvin Gilbert "Al"Cohn and Kitty Malone -- Up state / GaryMcFarland -- Senor' blues / Horace Silver.
Anita O'Day, vocals ; The Gary McFarland Orchestra.
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General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library CD CD-JZ/ODA-ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00207381
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

When Creed Taylor took over the production reins from Norman Granz when the latter sold Verve to MGM, he continued to place Anita O'Day in imaginative settings that challenged her creativity. On this LP, she was served with a collection of brilliant, difficult big-band charts, courtesy of a 27-year-old emerging master named Gary McFarland who mixed instrumental voices and tempo changes in querulous, turbulent combinations. Even a truly odd pick like "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis" is enlivened with sprouting shafts of outlaw muted brass and reeds. Another highlight is the contemporary update of O'Day's old flag-waver with the Krupa band, "Boogie Blues," complete with one of her patented flip upturned glissandos at the end. This album must have been a traumatic experience for O'Day, for as she tells the story, the tapes of McFarland's arrangements arrived by mail from New York and she had to overdub her vocals in an empty studio in Los Angeles. Yet it is a tribute to O'Day's abilities that she makes it all sound easy, exhibiting a freedom in phrasing and improvising that is extraordinary even for her. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Biographical and program notes by Dom Cerulli on container.

Boogie blues / Gene Krupa and Ray Biondi -- You came a long way from St. Louis / John Benson Brooks and Sidney Russell -- I want to sing a song / Gary McFarland and Margo Guryan -- A woman alone with the blues / Williard Robison (3:16) -- The ballad of all the sad young men / Thomas Wolf, Jr. and Frances Landesman -- Do nothin' til you hear from me / Duke Ellington and Bob Russell -- One more mile / Gary McFarland and Bobby Paxton -- Night bird / Alvin Gilbert "Al"Cohn and Kitty Malone -- Up state / GaryMcFarland -- Senor' blues / Horace Silver.

Anita O'Day, vocals ; The Gary McFarland Orchestra.

Recorded in New York in 1961.

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