Anita O'Day - Hot & Cool Heat - Anita O'Day Sings Buddy Bregman & Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements

Styles: Big Band, Swing, Jazz Vocal
Year: 2011
Time: 60:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 141,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:26) 1. You're The Top
(3:15) 2. Honeysuckle Rose
(2:30) 3. No Moon At All
(2:51) 4. I'll See You In My Dreams
(4:24) 5. I Never Had A Chance
(3:20) 6. Stompin' At The Savoy
(4:14) 7. Sweet Georgia Brown
(3:27) 8. I Won't Dance
(2:22) 9. Let's Begin
(2:16) 10. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(2:33) 11. You're A Clown
(3:13) 12. Easy Come Easy Go
(3:03) 13. A Lover Is Blue
(3:09) 14. Mack The Knife
(2:26) 15. Gone With The Wind
(2:08) 16. Hershey Bar
(2:54) 17. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
(2:03) 18. Orphan Annie
(2:12) 19. The Way You Look Tonight
(3:14) 20. It Had To Be You
(2:22) 21. Hooray For Hollywood

Hot and Cool Heat

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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 favor and get this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Anita-Sings-Bregman-Giuffre-Arrangements/dp/B003JZEVIK

Personnel:

Anita O'Day (vcl), Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon, Tom Reeves (tp), Milt Bernhart, Frank Rosolino, Lloyd Ulyate, Joe Howard, Si Zentner (tb), Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Alan Harding, Les Robinson (as), Stan Getz, Richie Kamuca (ts), Jimmy Giuffre (bs), Paul Smith, André Previn (p), Barney Kessel, Jim Hall (g), Joe Mondragon, George Morrow (b), Alvin Stoller, Mel Lewis (d) 

Tracks #1-4, from the album "Anita" (Verve MGV-2000)

Tracks #5-9, from the album "Pick Yourself Up" (Verve MGV-2043)

Tracks #10-21, from the album "Cool Heat" (Verve MGV-8312)

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