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Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63

By Anita O'Day

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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Article: Film Review

Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer

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

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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News: TV / Film

"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

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 ...

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Live in Tokyo

By Anita O'Day

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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My Funny Valentine

Featuring the music of Anita O'Day
Duration: 4:53

A 1986 performance by Anita O'Day at Ronnie Scott's in London. She is accompanied by John Poole (drums); Merrill Hoover (piano); Lennie Bush (bass); Tommy Whittle (flute).
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Article: Album Review

Anita O: Live in Tokyo

Read "Live in Tokyo " reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Inevitable with the upcoming screening of the documentary Anita O'Day The Life of a Jazz Singer at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival is the release of Live in Tokyo '63. This is the soundtrack to a televised concert in Japan during O'Day's fruitful association with Verve records that was to last the decade. This inevitability is ...


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