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Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire

Read "Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...

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Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free

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Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...

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Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer - Film Opening

Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer - Film Opening

A film about the jazz singer Anita O'Day may be opening near you. Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer won the “2008 SATELLITE Award winner for Best Documentary – International Press Academy". Read the All About Jazz review Visit our website to find an opening near you! About Anita O'Day Born Anita ...

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Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63

Label: Kayo Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Boogie Blues; Trave'Lin' Light; Honeysuckle Rose; Avalon; Bewitched; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; Night and Day; Let's Fall In Love; Sweet Georgia Brown; Tea For Two; Stella By Starlight; Love For Sale; Get Out Of Town; That Old Feeling; Four Brothers.

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Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer

Read "Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Anita O'Day Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer AOD Productions 2008Whatever else she was, Anita O'Day was a bundle of contradictions. Though one of the top four or five women jazz singers of her generation, she had little idea what she was doing with her life ...

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"Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer": All That Jazz and Plenty of Drama

"Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer": All That Jazz and Plenty of Drama

Anita O'Day sang like an angel, lived like the devil and made enough great music to fill a couple of lifetimes. Actually, she did live twice, considering that a heroin overdose killed her briefly in 1966, before revival with a then-experimental electric-shock device. It's practically a miracle O'Day lived to age 87, singing nearly until the ...

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Anita O'Day "Jazz on a Summer's Day"

Anita O'Day "Jazz on a Summer's Day"

Review: Jazz on a Summer's Day PLOT One of the pre-eminent women of jazz, captured through her music and her reflections on a turbulent, rigorously honest life. CAST Anita O'Day, Johnny Mandel, Annie Ross LENGTH 1:31 PLAYING AT Cinema Village, Manhattan BOTTOM LINE Swinging, satisfying portrait of a woman who was among ...

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Article: Album Review

Anita O'Day: Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63

Read "Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63" reviewed by Andrew Velez


This is a never previously released live set from a highly successful 1963 television concert in Japan. Vocalist Anita O'Day came out of the Big Band Era and after memorable stints with the Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton bands she launched an enduring soloist career that was still going strong when she passed in 2007 at ...

Album

Live in Tokyo

Label: Kayo Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Boogie Blues; Trav'lin' Light; Honeysuckle Rose; Avalon; Bewitched; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; Night and Day; Let's Fall In Love; Sweet Georgia Brown; Tea For Two; Stella By Starlight; Love For Sale; Get Out Of Town; That Old Feeling; Four Brothers.


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