Search results for "Anita O'Day"

Anita O'Day: Lover (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

For the first 45 seconds of this 2-minute track, Anita O'Day treats her "Lover" as tenderly as, well, "Tenderly." The...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Gene Krupa with Roy Eldridge & Anita O'Day: Let Me Off Uptown (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

After leaving Benny Goodman to front his own band, drummer Gene Krupa adopted Goodman's policy of circumscribed racia...

Anita O'Day: Body and Soul (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

Although this version is dedicated to Coleman Hawkins, who made "Body and Soul" into one of the ultimate tenor-sax so...

Anita O'Day: Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

For a 60-mile stretch along North Carolina's southwest border, going a little bit south puts you in Georgia. Anit...

Anita O'Day: Tea for Two (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 07, 08

Looking like a grande dame in Vogue, singing like a dame outa Down Beat, Anita O'Day walked away with Jazz on a S...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY

During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...

Anita O'Day: S'Wonderful / They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

"Swing you into bad health" is the ultimate jazz compliment. "Man, that drummer will swing you into bad health!" The ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Gene Krupa & Roy Eldridge: Rockin' Chair (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

In the 1950s, Eldridge rerecorded this song under his own name with a small combo, but this is the original masterpie...

Anita O'Day: Yesterdays (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Decades before recycling became fashionable, Russ Garcia was doing his part, reworking an arrangement of "Con Alma," ...

Anita O'Day: I Want to Sing a Song (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

After Gary McFarland's debut with Gerry Mulligan, producer Creed Taylor began giving album projects to the young arra...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Gene Krupa: Massachusetts (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Many state tributes are about a native who, torn from home, longs to return. Of these, the toughest to sing is "Massa...

Anita O'Day on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 14, 09

Thomas Cunniffe covers the world of DVDs for jazz.com. His most recent review here looked at Charles Mingus's Epitap...

Stan Kenton: And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The Kenton band was the staff orchestra on the Bob Hope radio program when Anita O’Day joined the band. O’Day was alr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Geller, Herb (Herbert) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Geller, Herb (Herbert), alto, soprano saxes, flutes, clarinet, piano, arranger and composer; b. Los Angeles, CA, 2 No...

The United States of Jazz posted in Features and Interviews April 06, 08

by Alan Kurtz When, in the course of musical events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Russell Garcia posted in Features and Interviews November 23, 08

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJAZ...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08

by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...

Brisker, Gordon (Ira) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Brisker, Gordon (Ira), tenor saxophonist, composer/arranger; b. Cincinnati, OH, 6 November 1937. His mother, Flora, w...

Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 11, 08

Jazz.com highlights two tracks every day. The Song of the Day aims to focus attention on the best of recent release...

Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward), drummer, bandleader, writer; b. Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, 29 August 1945. ...

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