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
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Polygram Records
Product features:
  • O´DAY ANITA O DAY S FINEST HOUR
Soundtracks:
  1. Honeysuckle Rose
  2. Little Girl Blue
  3. Let Me Off Uptown
  4. An Occasional Man
  5. Four Brothers
  6. Tea For Two
  7. Boogie Blues
  8. God Bless The Child
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love?
  10. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
  11. The 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. The Party's Over

Free Music Notes for Anita O'Day's Finest Hour

Free Music Review: Anita the Lionheart
Hit: 5 Stars

She may have been overshadowed by Ella Fitzgerald in Norman Granz's "Verve" company but to my ears Anita O'Day belongs to pantheon of all-time great jazz singers.This compilation presents the cream of 14 albums she recorded for "Verve",and as 8 of them are out of print,this is the only way to hear some otherwise rare and forgotten gems.If her voice mirrors her soul,Anita O'Day must have been very cool,ironic lady but just when you think she never let herself go,she surprises with poignant version of "God Bless The Child" (from her loving tribute to Billie Holiday) which she sings with real understanding and feeling.After all the vocal fireworks,her worldless vocalising and fast-scatting,it came as surprise to notice that O'Day was actually NOT born with big/pretty/beautiful voice,but its a sheer power of her personality that somehow works for her.There is something of a "bad girl" in her,which I find very appealing and while so many of commercialy succesful singers of her time had vanished together with their cheerful smiles,work of cynical and cool Anita O'Day stands the test of time perfectly.(Note: the drummer John Poole,who worked with her for decades is present on a few selections.With so many great musicians behind her,O'Day still sounds more ballsy than all of them)

Anita O'Day's Finest Hour Poster

O´DAY 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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