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Anita O'Day: Young Anita (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)Anita O'Day: Young Anita (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)
Anita O'Day is the epitome of a jazz singer. In a career that stretches back over sixty years now, Anita has been God's honest performer, a vocal risk-taker who keeps her audience in suspense, whether or not she'll make it, in other words a true jazz singer. This fearless and frank artist changes each song into a personal piece of music that fits no other performer.

This box features 89 tracks and follows her early adventures with Gene Krupa from 1941-42 and moves through the rest of the 40's with her work with Stan Kenton, and her first solo sides. The booklet tells her story and provides track and session details as well as including many archive images. (Proper Records) 


Price:  £15.49 


Anita O'Day: Let Me Off Uptown (CD: Columbia)
 


Price:  £9.99 

Anita O'Day: Let Me Off Uptown (CD: Columbia)


Anita O'Day: Complete 1952 Verve Sessions (CD: Jazz Factory)Anita O'Day: Complete 1952 Verve Sessions (CD: Jazz Factory)
This editions gathers all her recordings for Verve in 1952, backed by jazz legends as Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Larry Russell, Cecil Payne, Ralph Burns & Roy Kral. High Resolution. 24 BIT Edition. (Jazz Factory) 


Price:  £10.99 


Anita O'Day: Four Classic Albums (CD: AVID, 2 CDs)
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 Entertainment) 


Price:  £8.99 

Anita O'Day: Four Classic Albums (CD: AVID, 2 CDs)


Anita O'Day: All The Sad Young Men (CD: Verve)Anita O'Day: All The Sad Young Men (CD: Verve)
 


Price:  £9.99 


Anita O'Day: Incomparable! (CD: Verve LPR)
 


Price:  £9.99 

Anita O'Day: Incomparable! (CD: Verve LPR)


Anita O'Day: Pick Yourself Up (CD: Verve)Anita O'Day: Pick Yourself Up (CD: Verve)
 


Price:  £9.99 


Anita O'Day: Swings Cole Porter With Billy May (CD: Verve)
 


Price:  £9.99 

Anita O'Day: Swings Cole Porter With Billy May (CD: Verve)


Anita O'Day & Billy May: Swing Rodgers And Hart (CD: Verve)Anita O'Day & Billy May: Swing Rodgers And Hart (CD: Verve)
 


Price:  £9.99 


Anita O'Day: Anita Meets The Rhythm Sections (CD: Fresh Sound)
Few vocalists merited the compliment of “singer’s singer” as thoroughly as Anita O’Day. This is Miss O’Day at her best. On these 24 tracks she sings accompanied by some of the finest rhythm sections, who provide the perfect swinging backing to her intensely personal, jazz-driven phrasing that is an exciting delight. Above all, there is the warm, husky O’Day sound, a happiness, a sensual zest in the pleasures of ‘blowing’ with the voice, that combine into one of the most infectious delights of jazz listening. She is just as convincing on ballads as on up-tempos, proving to be one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. These recordings are gems of jazz singing. (Discovery Records) 


Price:  £11.99 

Anita O'Day: Anita Meets The Rhythm Sections (CD: Fresh Sound)


Anita O'Day: Hot & Cool Heat (CD: Fresh Sound)Anita O'Day: Hot & Cool Heat (CD: Fresh Sound)
Anita O’Day shows in this set why her over-all feeling and delivery mark her as one of the few women in the field who could ever accurately be called a jazz singer. She was a more imaginative singer than her imitators, not merely because she was original, but also because she was much more inventive.

Two talented and utterly dissimilar arrangers contributed the imaginatively varied scores for these sessions, the first two by Buddy Bregman, the last three by Jimmy Giuffre. Reveling in the settings - the difference between hot and cool - Anita O’Day has a great time, not only on the swinging tunes, to which she contributes some trademark, zestful, inventive scatting, but also in singing ballads with a sure touch.

Backing her, Bregman and Giuffre used some of the finest Hollywood jazzmen, with Stan Getz particularly warm and lyrical on ‘I Never Had a Chance’. These are probably the best jazz sides recorded by Anita O’Day in the Fifties, and if you enjoy vocal records in the slightest bit, do yourself a favour and get this one. (Discovery Records) 


Price:  £11.99 


Anita O'Day: Sings The Winners/ At Mister Kellys (CD: Jazz Track)
 


Price:  £10.99 

Anita O'Day: Sings The Winners/ At Mister Kellys (CD: Jazz Track)

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