Anita O'Day - Anita

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2011
Time: 37:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 88,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:25) 1. You're The Top
(3:13) 2. Honeysuckle Rose
(4:00) 3. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
(3:14) 4. Who Cares?
(3:53) 5. I Can't Get Started
(2:25) 6. Fine And Dandy
(3:39) 7. As Long As I Live
(2:28) 8. No Moon At All
(4:06) 9. Time After Time
(2:49) 10. I'll See You In My Dreams
(2:54) 11. I Fall In Love Too Easily
(2:40) 12. Beautiful Love

This is Anita is a reissue of Anita, a 1956 album by Anita O'Day that was re-released in 1962.

It was arranged and conducted by Buddy Bregman and was the first in a series of albums recorded by O'Day for Verve. Norman Granz was the producer on this album, and it was the first album to be released under his new label, thus paving the way for the future recordings from Verve, and this album was O'Day's first stint from the big band recordings of the 1940s and early 1950s.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Anita

Personnel: Anita O'Day – vocals; Milt Bernhart – trombone; Joe Howard – trombone; Lloyd Ulyate – trombone; Si Zentner – trombone; Paul Smith – piano, celeste; Corky Hale – harp; Barney Kessel – guitar; Joe Mondragon – double bass; Alvin Stoller – drums

Anita

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Anita O'Day - The Diva Series

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:33
Size: 131,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:32) 1. What Is This Thing Called Love?
(2:16) 2. Ten Cents A Dance
(3:21) 3. Waiter, Make Mine Blues
(4:19) 4. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered
(3:49) 5. Tea For Two
(3:14) 6. Honeysuckle Rose
(2:34) 7. Love Me Or Leave Me
(3:01) 8. It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
(4:02) 9. Miss Brown To You
(2:23) 10. I Get I Kick Out Of You
(3:15) 11. Let's Face The Music And Dance
(3:05) 12. Peel Me A Grape
(3:39) 13. Angel Eyes
(3:26) 14. Crazy He Calls Me
(2:56) 15. Whisper Not
(2:46) 16. Senor Blues
(3:32) 17. Sing, Sing, Sing
(2:14) 18. Avalon

One of the best pairings of an artist with a label since Frank Sinatra swung into the Capitol offices, Anita O'Day's time under the Verve umbrella (also including Clef and Norgran) resulted in some of the best pop music of her era.

O'Day's entry in 2003's The Diva Series is one of the better single-disc wrap-ups of her time on Verve, though the scarcity of hits while she was there and the near-uniform excellence of her '50s LPs still preclude anyone from recommending a compilation to any but newcomers.

Still, this one is much longer than Verve's previous attempts; it also balances songs from her rarer early-'60s dates with her '50s prime, and ably compiles some of her best-known material ("What Is This Thing Called Love," "Honeysuckle Rose," "Tea for Two") as well as a few of her hardest-swingers ("Love Me or Leave Me," "I Get a Kick out of You," "Let's Face the Music and Dance").

Much better than Compact Jazz, but nowhere near as revelatory as her late-'50s classics Anita Sings the Most or Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter With Billy May. By John Bush
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-diva-mw0000595312

The Diva Series

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Various - The Very Best Of Cole Porter

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 66:26

Size: 152.1 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals, Easy Listening

Year: 2004

Art: Front

[3:46] 1. Ella Fitzgerald - Too Darn Hot

[2:07] 2. Peggy Lee - My Heart Belongs To Daddy

[3:24] 3. Tony Bennett - Begin The Beguine

[3:59] 4. Sarah Vaughan - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

[2:06] 5. Jeri Southern - It's De-Lovely

[2:30] 6. Dean Martin - True Love

[3:50] 7. Shirley Horn - Love For Sale

[3:05] 8. Helen Merrill - Anything Goes

[8:40] 9. Ella Fitzgerald - Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)

[3:27] 10. Eartha Kitt - Let's Misbehave

[2:59] 11. Billie Holiday - Easy To Love

[2:54] 12. Mel Tormé - What Is This Thing Called Love

[2:05] 13. Anita O'day - Just One Of Those Things

[6:18] 14. Dinah Washington - I Get A Kick Out Of You

[4:47] 15. Aaron Neville - In The Still Of The Night

[3:01] 16. Carmen Mcrae - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

[4:58] 17. Fred Astaire - Night And Day

[2:21] 18. Ella Fitzgerald - You Do Something To Me

The Very Best Of Cole Porter

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Anita O'Day - Waiter, Make Mine The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:53
Size: 95.9 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1961/2007
Art: Front

[2:27] 1. That Old Feeling
[3:40] 2. Angel Eyes
[2:12] 3. The Thrill Is Gone
[4:23] 4. Detour Ahead
[5:10] 5. Yesterdays
[3:20] 6. Waiter, Make Mine Blues
[4:41] 7. Whatever Happened To You
[3:02] 8. When Sunny Gets Blue
[2:49] 9. Stella By Starlight
[3:25] 10. Mad About The Boy
[3:00] 11. A Blues Serenade
[3:39] 12. Goodbye

Waiter, Make Mine Blues pairs Anita O'Day with arranger Russ Garcia, whose delightful and imaginative treatments perfectly complement the singer's lithe vocals. West Coast greats including Barney Kessel and Bud Shank are also on hand to lend the session an even lighter, sweeter tone that couches the melancholy the album's title portends -- songs like "The Thrill Is Gone" and "When Sunny Gets Blue" capture O'Day at her most affecting, balancing her trademark sophistication with the world-weary resignation of one who has loved and lost. ~Jason Ankeny

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Anita O'Day - All The Sad Young Men

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:21
Size: 78.6 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1961/2012
Art: Front

[3:44] 1. Boogie Blues
[4:12] 2. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
[2:42] 3. I Want To Sing A Song
[3:17] 4. A Woman Alone With The Blues
[4:28] 5. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
[4:07] 6. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
[2:38] 7. One More Mile
[3:56] 8. Night Bird
[2:29] 9. Up State
[2:44] 10. Senor Blues

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. Ginnell

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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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Anita O'Day - Live At Mingo's

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:41
Size: 102.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[5:03] 1. As Time Goes By
[5:36] 2. Stardust
[4:13] 3. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
[4:03] 4. The Very Thought Of You
[4:29] 5. Anita's Blues '76
[3:23] 6. I Could Write A Book
[4:14] 7. Sophisticated Lady
[3:22] 8. I Hear Music
[5:23] 9. I Cover The Waterfront
[4:50] 10. The Way You Look Tonight

A solid album by vocalist Anita O'Day that was done in the mid-'70s, but was initially only available in Japan. She subsequently released it on her own label, but it's still not seen widespread distribution and may be tough to find. Her voice was once again in vivid, expressive form after her successful battle with drug and alcohol problems. ~Ron Wynn

Live At Mingo's

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Anita O'Day - Incomparable!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:06
Size: 84.9 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1960/2002
Art: Front

[2:37] 1. It Could Happen To You
[2:35] 2. Blue Champagne
[2:10] 3. Avalon
[3:00] 4. Old Devil Moon
[3:09] 5. The Party's Over
[3:06] 6. Why Shouldn't I
[3:17] 7. Easy Living
[2:14] 8. Can't We Be Friends
[5:49] 9. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
[2:48] 10. If I Love Again
[3:01] 11. Speak Low
[3:14] 12. Indian Summer

Alto Saxophone – Charlie Kennedy, Joe Maini; Baritone Saxophone – Jack Nimitz; Bass – Joe Mondragon; Bass Trombone – Kenny Shroyer; Drums – Mel Lewis; Guitar – Al Hendrickson; Piano – Lou Levy; Tenor Saxophone – Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca; Trombone – Bob Edmonson, Frank Rosolino, Lew McCreary; Trumpet – Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Ray Triscari, Stu Williamson; Vocals – Anita O'Day. Recorded 1960 at Radio Recorders, Hollywood: tracks 1-3 on August 16; tracks 4-6 on August 18; tracks 7-12 on August 23.

Anita started the "cool" school of jazz singing - her vocalese & scatting is always musically right, and not just showing off. This album had a strange sound to it when first pressed on LP, but this CD transfer has corrected the flat sound that was inherent. Bill Holman's inventive arrangements propel Anita in one of the most creative sessions that she had for Verve. Anita was always miles ahead of her imitators, and always, the hippest chick in Jazz. And dig that groovy ice-blue eyeliner! ~Allen Bardin

Incomparable!

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Gene Krupa - Drums Drums Drums

Styles: Jazz, Swing
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:04
Size: 140,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:00)  1. Drummin' Man
(3:04)  2. Leave Us Leap
(3:10)  3. Drum Boogie
(3:23)  4. Boogie Blues
(2:53)  5. Bolero At The Savoy
(2:55)  6. Lover
(3:17)  7. Massachusetts
(2:55)  8. Symphony In Riffs
(2:58)  9. Opus One
(2:39) 10. After You've Gone
(2:35) 11. Do You Wanna Jump, Children
(2:59) 12. Tuxedo Junction
(3:25) 13. Boog-It
(3:25) 14. Body & Soul
(3:13) 15. That's What You Think
(3:17) 16. Wire Brush Stomp
(2:30) 17. Nagasaki
(3:12) 18. Disk Jockey Jump
(2:43) 19. Rhumboogie
(3:20) 20. How High The Moon

This 20-song collection, evidently made up of radio airchecks that are effectively out of copyright overseas, makes a good companion to Sony's Gene Krupa hits and Anita O'Day/Roy Eldridge collections. It doesn't have "Let Me Off Uptown," but it does include O'Day's extraordinary "Boogie Blues," "Bolero at the Savoy," and "Massachusetts," and performances by scat-singing star Leo Watson. Further, Roy Eldridge is featured on at least half the cuts here in prominent solos, but the producers have also included tracks by the later Krupa line-ups, which included Charlie Ventura and Gerry Mulligan, working in leaner, more modern jazz surroundings. The sound quality is above average for the period, with minimal distortion and a clean, close sound. The drums, of course, are prominent (nowhere more so than on "Wire Brush Stomp"), but the solos by Eldridge and the other featured members of Krupa's various bands also come out loud and richly textured. Of the music itself, there's only one really weak link here, Krupa's much-too-fast treatment of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart waltz "Lover," and it is more than made up for by the presence of O'Day's singing on "That's What You Think." And it's all budget priced too. ~ Bruce Eder http://www.allmusic.com/album/drums-drums-drums-mw0000533832

Personnel:  Drums – Gene Krupa;  Saxophone – Charlie Ventura (tracks: 14);  Trumpet – Roy Eldridge (tracks: 10);  Vocals – Anita O'Day (tracks: 4, 5, 7, 9, 15), Irene Daye (tracks: 1, 3, 13, 19), Leo Watson (tracks: 11, 17)

Drums Drums Drums

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Anita O'Day - Gone With The Wind

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:52
Size: 105.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[ 3:05] 1. A Song For You
[ 4:13] 2. Undecided
[ 6:10] 3. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
[ 4:12] 4. Exactly Like You
[ 6:07] 5. When Sunny Gets Blue
[ 4:19] 6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
[ 3:52] 7. It Had To Be You
[ 2:56] 8. Opus One
[10:54] 9. Gone With The Wind

Few female singers matched the hard-swinging and equally hard-living Anita O'Day for sheer exuberance and talent in all areas of jazz vocals. Though three or four outshone her in pure quality of voice, her splendid improvising, wide dynamic tone, and innate sense of rhythm made her the most enjoyable singer of the age. O'Day's first appearances in a big band shattered the traditional image of a demure female vocalist by swinging just as hard as the other musicians on the bandstand, best heard on her vocal trading with Roy Eldridge on the Gene Krupa recording "Let Me Off Uptown." After making her solo debut in the mid-'40s, she incorporated bop modernism into her vocals and recorded over a dozen of the best vocal LPs of the era for Verve during the 1950s and '60s. Though hampered during her peak period by heavy drinking and later, drug addiction, she made a comeback and continued singing into the new millennium. ~John Bush

Gone With The Wind

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Anita O'Day - Jazz Round Midnight

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 1997
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 55:27
Size: 92,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:40)  1. Angel Eyes
(4:03)  2. A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
(3:38)  3. We'll be together again
(3:49)  4. I cover the waterfront
(2:56)  5. If the moon turns green
(3:10)  6. Early autumn
(3:06)  7. I'm not lonely
(3:02)  8. A lover is blue
(3:22)  9. Tenderly
(2:29) 10. I'm not supposed to be blue blues
(4:15) 11. You came a long way from St'Louis
(3:36) 12. Trac'lin light
(3:57) 13. Man with a horn
(3:55) 14. I can't get started
(2:57) 15. You don't know what love is
(3:24) 16. Crazy, he calls me

In keeping with the Jazz 'Round Midnight theme, this Anita O'Day sampler errs on the mellow side of things with 16 after-hours gems from the lady of bop vocal rhythm. For fans more interested in sampling all of O'Day's talents, though, there's such well-balanced Verve collection as Jazz Masters and Compact Jazz to check out. But, if your optimal inroad to jazz vocals is a smooth one, this disc with ballad highlights like "Man With a Horn," "I'm Not Lonely," and "Early Autumn" will make for ideal listening. And while O'Day is not the first word in jazz ballads (think June Christy or Ella Fitzgerald), her beguiling delivery along with the disc's wealth of top-notch charts and amazing cast of sidemen makes up for any lack of rarefied mood moments. Packed with gems from the singer's '50s and early-'60s prime, Jazz 'Round Midnight: Anita O'Day will make the familiarizing process as easy as sipping a glass of French red. ~ Stephen Cook http://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-round-midnight-anita-oday-mw0000024656

Personnel: Anita O'Day (vocals); Herb Ellis, Howard Roberts , Al Hendrickson, Al Viola, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel, Barry Galbraith (guitar); Corky Hale (harp); Lou Raderman, Dan Lube (violin); Virginia Majewski (viola); Walter Levinsky (clarinet, alto saxophone); Bud Shank (woodwinds, alto saxophone); Jimmy Giuffre (woodwinds, baritone saxophone); Alex Harding (woodwinds); Joe Maini (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Herb Geller, Lennie Niehaus, Phil Woods (alto saxophone); Georgie Auld, Jerome Richardson, Richie Kamuca, Zoot Sims, Bill Perkins, Bob Cooper (tenor saxophone); Chuck Gentry, Jack DuLong (baritone saxophone); Stu Williamson (trumpet, trombone); Conrad Gozzo , Conte Candoli, Phil Gilbert, Bill Catalano, John Anderson , Herb Pomeroy, Jack Sheldon, Jules Chaiken, Al Porcino, Pete Candoli, Ray Linn, Ray Triscari, Sam Noto, Lee Katzman (trumpet); Milt Bernhart, Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash , Lou McCreary, Frank Rosolino, George Roberts , Kent Larsen, Willie Dennis , Kenny Shroyer, Bob Enevoldsen, Archie LeCoque, Jim Amlotte, Lloyd Ulyate (trombone); Paul Smith (piano, celesta); Bud Lavin, Robert Corwin , Hank Jones , Jimmy Rowles, Lonnie Hewitt, Marty Paich, Oscar Peterson, Russ Freeman (piano); Larry Bunker (vibraphone, drums); Bob Brookmeyer, Cal Tjader (vibraphone); Johnny Rae, Mel Lewis, Alvin Stoller, John Poole (drums).

Jazz Round Midnight

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Various - A Night Out With Verve (4-Disc Box Set)

A Night Out With Verve highlights five decades of remarkable jazz taken from the Verve catalog, spread out over four discs titled "Wining," "Dining," "Dancing," and "Romancing." This budget-priced box set includes 65 performances from jazz luminaries including Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Michel Legrand, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Shirley Horn. Whether it's a night out on the town or a simple romantic evening, A Night Out With Verve has a great deal to offer die-hard jazz fans and casual listeners alike. ~Al Campbell

Album: A Night Out With Verve (Disc 1)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 67:04

Size: 153.6 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz, Bop, Standards, Jazz/Blues/Soul

Year: 2000

[2:22] 1. Oscar Peterson Trio - Come Dance With Me

[3:22] 2. Dizzy Gillespie - There Is No Greater Love

[2:39] 3. Kenny Burrell - As Long As I Live

[3:37] 4. Coleman Hawkins - I Wished On The Moon

[3:25] 5. Junior Mance - A Smooth One

[3:00] 6. Johnny Hodges - On The Sunny Side Of The Street

[2:55] 7. Anita O'day - Whisper Not

[3:48] 8. Joe Pass - Li'l Darlin'

[4:25] 9. Monty Alexander - Love You Madly

[5:34] 10. George Benson - What's New

[6:17] 11. Tal Farlow - Broadway

[6:19] 12. Sonny Rollins - You Are Too Beautiful

[4:36] 13. Wynton Kelly - Portrait Of Jenny

[5:49] 14. Gerry Mulligan - Fall Out

[3:05] 15. Michel Legrand - La Vie En Rose

[5:45] 16. Roy Eldridge - I Still Love Him So

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Album: A Night Out With Verve (Disc 2)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 67:49

Size: 155.2 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz, Bop, Standards, Jazz/Blues/Soul

Year: 2000

[2:38] 1. Kenny Burrell - If I Had You

[5:21] 2. Joe Henderson - Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz)

[3:53] 3. Sarah Vaughan - Isn't It A Pity

[4:46] 4. Bill Evans - My Foolish Heart

[5:36] 5. Art Blakey - I Remember Clifford

[4:42] 6. Jim Hall - It's Nice To Be With You

[4:25] 7. The New Stan Getz Quartet - It Might As Well Be Spring

[3:40] 8. Benny Carter - Isn't It Romantic

[3:50] 9. Ella Fitzgerald - When A Woman Loves A Man

[6:25] 10. George Shearing - This Can't Be Love

[5:51] 11. Chet Baker - You Go To My Head

[5:03] 12. Tal Farlow - Autumn In New York

[4:40] 13. Stan Getz - But Beautiful

[2:21] 14. Astrud Gilberto - Agua De Beber

[4:29] 15. Sonny Rollins - Manhattan

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Album: A Night Out With Verve (Disc 3)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 63:49

Size: 146.1 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz, Bop, Standards, Jazz/Blues/Soul

Year: 2000

[2:44] 1. Fred Astaire - (Ad Lib) Fast Dances

[3:57] 2. Ella Fitzgerald - Party Blues

[7:14] 3. James Clay - Sister Sadie

[2:14] 4. Jimmy Smith - Organ Grinder's Swing

[4:34] 5. Duke Ellington - Perdido

[2:23] 6. Harry James & His Orchestra - Back Beat Boogie

[4:06] 7. Marlena Shaw - At Last

[5:40] 8. Louis Armstrong - Little Girl Blue

[3:36] 9. Stan Getz - Só Danço Samba

[7:20] 10. Cassandra Wilson - Shall We Dance

[3:59] 11. Buddy Defranco - Rose Room

[4:12] 12. Benny Goodman - King Porter Stomp

[4:27] 13. Nicholas Payton - Taking A Chance On Love

[5:14] 14. Count Basie - Corner Pocket

[2:01] 15. Fred Astaire - (Ad Lib) Medium Dance

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Album: A Night Out With Verve (Disc 4)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 69:08

Size: 158.3 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz, Bop, Standards, Jazz/Blues/Soul

Year: 2000

Art: Front

[4:01] 1. Sarah Vaughan - I've Got A Crush On You

[4:04] 2. Billie Holiday - It Had To Be You

[5:32] 3. John Coltrane - You're A Weaver Of Dreams

[3:05] 4. Al Hibbler - This Love Of Mine

[3:06] 5. Don Byas - Misty

[3:01] 6. Dinah Washington - Invitation

[5:35] 7. Abbey Lincoln - The Nearness Of You

[3:51] 8. Stéphane Grappelli - Time After Time

[4:04] 9. Billy Eckstine - Imagination

[4:34] 10. Lester Young - That's All

[2:53] 11. Mel Tormé - I Should Care

[2:55] 12. Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight

[3:34] 13. Roland Kirk Quartet - Someone To Watch Over Me

[3:06] 14. Johnny Hartman - It's Easy To Remember

[2:15] 15. Ella Fitzgerald - Reaching For The Moon

[3:00] 16. Shirley Horn - You Don't Know Me

[4:41] 17. The Ben Webster Quintet - Where Are You

[2:13] 18. Louis Armstrong - There's No You

[3:30] 19. Clifford Brown - Memories Of You

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Anita O'Day - There's Only One

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:22
Size: 81.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1978/2007
Art: Front

[3:21] 1. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Thing)
[5:10] 2. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
[2:58] 3. Old Folks
[5:40] 4. What Is This Thing Called Love
[4:16] 5. Ace In The Hole
[5:33] 6. I Cover The Waterfront
[2:29] 7. Chicago
[5:52] 8. I Cried For You

Acoustic Guitar, Guitar – Al Bruno, Billy Webb; Bass – Eddie Jo Downs; Drums – Johnny Greer; Piano – Ed Holtz; Steel Guitar – Silvio Tucciarone; Vocals – Anita O'Day. Recorded at Gold Star Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA.

Quicksilver Records dug out a true treasure when it reissued Anita O’Day’s Christmas of 1977 recordings session. While this recording came at the end of her accomplished career, it windows the singer and her individual and styled approach to song.

Anita O’Day was raised in the music hotbed of Chicago, Illinois during a time when Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa were frequent performers. O’Day worked her way up to landing a gig with the Krupa outfit which featured Roy Eldridge. She soon headed east where her voice was recorded masterfully by Norman Granz’s Verve label. O’Day’s approach to singing while not unique, was not an imitation of anyone. Like Billie Holiday, she moved her words in and out of the rhythm with ease and silky smooth transitions and possessed the scatting skills of artists like Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. It is this style that she continued to develop and perfect up to and including this recording.

On "There’s Only One," O’Day displays her virtuostic phrasing and silky smooth vocals on such standards as ‘It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing),” “I Cried For You,” and “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You." What an album of songs that have been recorded many times before does for an artist like O’Day is allow her to display her unique voice and vision with a repertoire that is familiar to most listeners. While many artists strike out with these efforts and release nothing but rehashed arrangements, O’Day succeeds by presenting what stands out as an original voice and top-of-the-line presentation. To prove that point the listener need to listen no further than to O’Day’s crooning and rhythmic toying on the album's opening recording of Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean A Thing.” The recording sounds fresh, original and at the same time maintains much of the original form.

In this age of cramming as much music as possible onto a compact disc, Quicksilver stays true to the original master and lets it speak for itself without the requisite substandard outtakes, live material, and alternative recordings. This approach makes the listening a pleasure from track one through eight and makes the listener leaving with a smile on their face with a desire to hear more – the mark of a great recording and artist! ~Charlie B. Dahan

There's Only One

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Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader - Thanks For The Memories

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:51
Size: 72.9 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:45] 1. Thanks For The Memories
[2:59] 2. It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
[2:46] 3. Just In Time
[2:22] 4. Under A Blanket Of Blue
[2:52] 5. That's Your Red Wagon
[3:02] 6. Peel Me A Grape
[2:27] 7. An Occasional Man
[2:20] 8. The Party's Over
[2:23] 9. I Believe In You
[1:55] 10. Mr. Sandman
[3:23] 11. Spring Will Be A Little Late
[2:32] 12. I'm Not Supposed To Be Blue

Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton; October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough," slang for money.

O'Day, along with Mel Tormé, is often grouped with the West Coast cool school of jazz. Like Tormé, O'Day had some training in jazz drums (courtesy of her first husband Don Carter); her longest musical collaboration was with jazz drummer John Poole. While maintaining a central core of hard swing, O'Day's skills in improvisation of rhythm and melody put her squarely among the pioneers of bebop.

She cited Martha Raye as the primary influence on her vocal style, also expressing admiration for Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday. She always maintained that the accidental excision of her uvula during a childhood tonsillectomy left her incapable of vibrato, and unable to maintain long phrases. That botched operation, she claimed, forced her to develop a more percussive style based on short notes and rhythmic drive. However, when she was in good voice she could stretch long notes with strong crescendos and a telescoping vibrato, e.g. her live version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, captured in Bert Stern's film Jazz on a Summer's Day.

Thanks For The Memories

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Anita O'Day - An Evening With Anita O'Day

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:02
Size: 87.1 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1955/2016
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. Just One Of Those Things
[2:30] 2. Gypsy In My Soul
[4:10] 3. The Man I Love
[3:34] 4. Frankie And Johnny
[3:23] 5. Anita's Blues
[3:43] 6. I Cover The Waterfront
[2:42] 7. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[3:09] 8. From This Moment On
[3:12] 9. Medley There Will Never Be Another You Just Friends
[2:53] 10. You Don't Know What Love Is
[3:40] 11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
[2:23] 12. Let's Fall In Love

A combination of three sessions with three different small backing groups available currently on a Japanese CD -- this is an early revealing example of Anita O'Day's growth as a jazz artist since her days as a big band thrush. Her virtuosity at fast tempos is right on the dot, and she is fearlessly willing to take wide-open liberties with the melodies. The tune of "The Man I Love," and for instance, is completely taken apart and personalized; you wouldn't even recognize it were it not for the words. O'Day also shows us her vulnerable side in a remarkable on-the-edge performance of "You Don't Know What Love Is," and she gives listeners a rare taste of her songwriting in "Anita's Blues." Barney Kessel and Tal Farlow sit in on guitar on four tracks apiece; the other four are with piano trio. Low-key, modestly produced, this is best heard as directed -- in the evening. ~Richard S. Ginnell

An Evening With Anita O'Day

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Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:23
Size: 126.8 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1962/2007
Art: Front

[3:28] 1. When The World Was Young
[4:23] 2. Someday My Prince Will Come
[3:18] 3. All Too Soon
[3:36] 4. My Heart Stood Still
[4:32] 5. My Ship
[4:15] 6. Leave It To Me
[2:56] 7. Whisper Not
[4:39] 8. Blues By Five
[3:52] 9. Fly Me To The Moon
[2:38] 10. You And The Night And The Music
[3:00] 11. Let Me Off Uptown
[3:43] 12. My Heart Stood Still
[6:32] 13. Leave It To Me
[4:26] 14. Blues By Five

This strange (and strangely compelling) album is the most controversial of all O'Day's Verve Records releases, popular among O'Day's hardcore fans for the showcase that the Three Sounds' near-minimalist accompaniment affords her singing. On a lot of levels, however, it wasn't a successful record. The album was a one-shot collaboration that happened in the narrowest possible window-of-opportunity. The Three Sounds, having left Blue Note, were passing through the Verve roster, where they would be active for about a week in October of 1962, cutting two albums in that time including this one with Anita O'Day, who was leaving the label after 10 years there. Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds is as much a Three Sounds record as it is an Anita O'Day recording -- the group is represented by four instrumentals, including "Someday My Prince Will Come," "My Heart Stood Still," and "Blues By Five," cut at the same time as their album Blue Genes, while O'Day sings five songs. She is amazingly restrained and low-key throughout most of her work here; on songs like the sultry "All Too Soon," that works out fine, but elsewhere the fit between singer and group seems uncomfortable. There's very little excitement or tension to give her songs energy, and O'Day never interacts with the trio in any discernable way. Additionally, she seems uninspired in terms of any inventiveness, with long stretches of silence where one would have expected her to improvise. What is here is fine, her husky yet playful voice a wonder to hear on "When The World Was Young" (where Gene Harris's piano does come to life), but there's amazingly little life to the procedings. The one exception is "Whisper Not," which also has the distinction of featuring O'Day's Gene Krupa-era collaborator Roy Eldridge on trumpet and is the most successful cut here, as what one would look for on a more conventional Anita O'Day album. [Some reissues feature a second, previously unissued Eldridge cut from the same sessions, a hot remake of his and O'Day's Gene Krupa-era hit "Let Me Off Uptown," with the two of them in a duet on their old 1940's hit.] ~Bruce Eder

Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds

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VA - Jazz On A Summer's Day OST

Size: 176,8 MB
Time: 75:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1960/2006
Styles: Jazz: Vocal Jazz, Swing, Big Band
Art: Front

01. Jimmy Giuffre - Train And The River (4:37)
02. Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (3:29)
03. Sonny Stitt - Loose Walk (2:54)
04. Anita O'Day - Sweet Georgia Brown (4:26)
05. Anita O'Day - Tea For Two (3:43)
06. George Shearing Quintet - Rondo (2:15)
07. Dinah Washington - All Of Me (4:17)
08. Gerry Mulligan - Catch As Catch Can (3:50)
09. Big Maybelle - I Ain't Mad At You (3:46)
10. Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen (3:53)
11. Chico Hamilton - Chico's Chiquittas (5:48)
12. Louis Armstrong - Up A Lazy River (3:06)
13. Louis Armstrong - Tiger Rag (2:02)
14. Louis Armstrong - Rockin' Chair (3:33)
15. Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In (1:44)
16. Mahalia Jackson - Everybody's Talkin' (1:59)
17. Mahalia Jackson - Didn't It Rain (3:24)
18. Mahalia Jackson - The Lord's Prayer (4:14)
19. Unknown - Intro Rehersal Interview (2:39)
20. Eli's Chosen Six - When Saints Go Marching (0:50)
21. Chico Hamilton Quintet - Rehersal (0:45)
22. Eli's Chosen Six - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home (2:01)
23. Nathan Gershman - Rehersal (2:12)
24. Eli's Chosen Six - Maryland, My Maryland (Version 1) (1:12)
25. Louis Armstrong - Interview With Louis Armstrong (2:15)
26. Eli's Chosen Six - Maryland, My Maryland (Version 2) (0:53)

Jazz On A Summer’s Day is one of the greatest jazz movies ever made.

Filmed over the four days of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival the film not only captured inspired performances from the biggest names in jazz at the time, but also the style and fashions of late Fifties America.

Includes performances by Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan and concludes with the peerless gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.

Jazz On A Summer’s Day was the only film made by leading stills photographer Bert Stern (Vogue magazine, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn), his photographer’s eye for the subject matter and his picture composition being apparent in the film’s series of unforgettable images of the performers, the audience and the picturesque setting of Rhode Island.

This set includes an hour long CD of music highlights from the movie. This soundtrack CD was recently chosen as one of the all-time classic albums by Mojo magazine in its compendium, The Mojo Collection.

Jazz On A Summer's Day

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Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader - Time For 2

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:45
Size: 72.7 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1962/1999
Art: Front

[2:45] 1. Thanks For The Memory
[2:59] 2. It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
[2:46] 3. Just In Time
[2:21] 4. Under A Blanket Of Blue
[2:48] 5. That's Your Red Wagon
[3:02] 6. Peel Me A Grape
[2:26] 7. An Occasional Man
[2:20] 8. The Party's Over
[2:23] 9. I Believe In You
[1:54] 10. Mr. Sandman
[3:23] 11. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
[2:32] 12. I'm Not Supposed To Be Blue Blues

In another experiment, producer Creed Taylor teams O'Day with the alternately Latin and bop-grounded quartet of vibraphonist Cal Tjader -- and he gets some amazing performances from this team. O'Day sounds as if she is delighted with Tjader's polished Afro-Cuban grooves, gliding easily over the rhythms, toying with the tunes, transforming even a tune so locked into its trite time as "Mr. Sandman" into a stimulating excursion. Indeed, O'Day's freewheeling phrasing becomes downright sexy on "That's Your Red Wagon" and Dave Frishberg's delicious parody of a spoiled honeybunch, "Peel Me a Grape." Also, thanks to Taylor's obsession with good engineering and tasteful applications of reverb, O'Day's voice sounds much fuller and more attractive in his productions than on her Norman Granz-produced albums. ~Richard S. Ginnell

Time For 2

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Anita O'Day - Let Me Off Uptown: The Best Of Anita O'Day

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 74:17

Size: 170.0 MB

Styles: Swing, Vocal jazz

Year: 1999

Art: Front

[ 6:02] 1. Opus One

[ 3:07] 2. Skylark

[ 3:15] 3. Stop! The Red Light's On

[ 2:53] 4. Georgia On My Mind

[ 3:07] 5. Thanks For The Boogie Ride

[ 2:23] 6. Tea For Two

[ 8:55] 7. That's What You Think

[ 2:41] 8. Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina

[ 3:05] 9. Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street

[ 2:36] 10. Green Eyes

[ 2:25] 11. Kick It

[ 3:10] 12. Slow Down

[15:18] 13. Watch The Birdie

[ 3:21] 14. Boogie Blues

[ 2:51] 15. Bolero At The Savoy

[ 3:13] 16. Massachusetts

[ 2:47] 17. Harlem On Parade

[ 3:00] 18. Let Me Off Uptown

If Gene Krupa's band needed a signature tune during Anita O'Day's tenure with the group, it was "Kick It!," track 11 of this collection, which includes her exhortation to "keep the rhythm moving." The 18 songs on this CD come primarily from O'Day's first stint with the band, when she was frequently paired with singer-trumpeter Roy Eldridge in one of the great ensembles of the last great years of the big band era. This collection starts with the name-dropping "Opus One" from her second stint with Krupa in 1945, which showed no slackening of her ability to twist a song with the best players. The earlier numbers, pairing her with Eldridge, are even better. In particular, "Thanks for the Boogie Ride" was the basis for a hot little soundie (which Columbia ought to find a way to re-release) featuring the two of them. "Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street" also features a duet between the two as well as Krupa in a featured spot that isn't played fast for a change. O'Day could also sound just plain sultry, as on her rendition of "Georgia on My Mind" from her earliest session with Krupa. This CD slots in perfectly as the complement to Columbia's earlier Drum Boogie CD, which covers the Krupa band's work during 1940 and early 1941. Let Me Off Uptown picks up where Drum Boogie leaves off, basically distilling the best cuts from Columbia's earlier Krupa double LP, processing them with a good amount of care to provide a level of fidelity that is a genuine pleasure to hear. ~Bruce Eder

Let Me Off Uptown: The Best Of Anita O'Day

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Anita O'Day - Pick Yourself Up

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 64:14

Size: 147.1 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 1957/1992

Art: Front

[2:31] 1. Don't Be That Way

[3:14] 2. Let's Face The Music And Dance

[4:21] 3. I Never Had A Chance

[3:17] 4. Stompin' At The Savoy

[3:04] 5. Pick Yourself Up

[2:49] 6. Stars Fell On Alabama

[4:12] 7. Sweet Georgia Brown

[3:24] 8. I Won't Dance

[3:54] 9. Man With A Horn

[3:07] 10. I Used To Be Color Blind

[3:16] 11. There's A Lull In My Life

[2:19] 12. Let's Begin

[2:03] 13. I'm With You

[2:43] 14. The Rock & Roll Waltz

[2:25] 15. The Getaway And The Chase

[2:28] 16. Your Picture's Hanging Crooked On The Wall

[3:08] 17. We Laughed At Love

[3:02] 18. I'm Not Lonely

[3:13] 19. Let's Face The Music And Dance

[2:45] 20. Ivy

[2:48] 21. Stars Fell On Alabama

For this well-rounded CD reissue that adds nine cuts to the original program, Anita O'Day, in her prime period, is mostly heard accompanied by Buddy Bregman & His Orchestra, but there are also a few tracks on which she is joined by a jazz combo featuring trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison. Highlights include "Don't Be That Way," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Pick Yourself Up," "Sweet Georgia Brown," and "I Won't Dance." Virtually all of Anita O'Day's 1950s recordings are recommended, for her drug use had not yet affected her voice and her creativity was generally at its height. ~Steve Yanow

Pick Yourself Up

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