Anita O'Day - Verve Jazz Masters 49

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:57
Size: 109.8 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[2:27] 1. That Old Feeling
[3:44] 2. Boogie Blues
[3:38] 3. Angel Eyes
[3:45] 4. (Fly Me To The Moon) In Other Words
[3:33] 5. When The World Was Young
[2:13] 6. Ten Cents A Dance
[3:10] 7. Easy Come, Easy Go
[2:32] 8. The No Soap, No Hope, No Mouse, No House Blues
[2:47] 9. Just In Time
[2:52] 10. Old Devil Moon
[4:00] 11. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
[2:39] 12. Them There Eyes
[2:53] 13. If The Moon Turns Green
[1:50] 14. Johnny One Note
[3:20] 15. Waiter, Make Mine Blues
[2:28] 16. What Is This Thing Called Love

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. Ginnell

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