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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. Ginell /TiVo
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Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bud Shank, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - Sammy Fain, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Russell Garcia, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Remo Biondi, ComposerLyricist - Doc Severinsen, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - George Duvivier, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Bernie Glow, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Brookmeyer, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Mel Lewis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Hank Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Zoot Sims, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Woods, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Galbraith, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Willie Dennis, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Pomeroy, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Krupa, ComposerLyricist - Ray Biondi, ComposerLyricist - The Gary McFarland Orchestra, MainArtist - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1962 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bud Shank, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Dennis, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Earl K. Brent, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bart Howard, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Simpkins, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Three Sounds, MainArtist - Bill Dowdy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1962 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Simpkins, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Three Sounds, MainArtist - Gérard Philipe, ComposerLyricist - Bill Dowdy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Angele Marie Therese Vannier, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1962 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Author - Anita O'day, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Heyman, ComposerLyricist - John W. Green, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Adler , ComposerLyricist - JERRY ROSS, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jule Styne, Composer - Adolph Green, ComposerLyricist - Betty Comden, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, MainArtist - Cal Tjader, MainArtist - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1962 UMG Recordings, Inc.
RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Burton Lane, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Producer, MainArtist - John Poole, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - The Oscar Peterson Quartet, FeaturedArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Eric Maschwitz, Author - Manning Sherwin, Composer - Robert Farnon, Arranger, Work Arranger - Anita O'day, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Maceo Pinkard, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Producer, MainArtist - John Poole, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - DORIS TAUBER, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - The Oscar Peterson Quartet, FeaturedArtist - William Tracey, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bernie Hanighen, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, MainArtist - George Cates, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Remo Biondi, ComposerLyricist - Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bud Shank, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Russell Garcia, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer - Bessie Brown, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Skeets Herfurt, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Schwartz, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Mel Lewis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Billy May, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Cipriano, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Anita O'day, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Tedesco, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Si Zentner, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Kusby, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer - Uan Rasey, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Conrad Gozzo, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Justin Gordon, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Wells, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Beach, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Dick Noel, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Gentry, Baritone, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer - George Morrow, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Al Pellegrini, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
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. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:13
- Main artists: Anita O'Day
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve
- Genre: Jazz
© 1995 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1995 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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