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Anita O’Day shows in this set why her over-all feeling and delivery mark her as one of the few women in the field who could ever accurately be called a jazz singer. She was a more imaginative singer than her imitators, not merely because she was original, but also because she was much more inventive. Two talented and utterly dissimilar arrangers contributed the imaginatively varied scores for these sessions, the first two by Buddy Bregman, the last three by Jimmy Giuffre.
Reveling in the settings—the difference between hot and cool—Anita O’Day has a great time, not only on the swinging tunes, to which she contributes some trademark, zestful, inventive scatting, but also in singing ballads with a sure touch. Backing her, Bregman and Giuffre used some of the finest Hollywood jazzmen, with Stan Getz particularly warm and lyrical on I Never Had a Chance.
These are probably the best jazz sides recorded by Anita O’Day in the Fifties, and if you enjoy vocal records in the slightest bit, do yourself a favor and get this one.
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ARTISTS
Anita O'Day (vcl), Pete & Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon (tp), Milt Bernhart, Frank Rosolino (tb), Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Stan Getz, Richie Kamuca, Jimmy Giuffre (reeds), Paul Smith, André Previn (p), B. Kessel, Jim Hall (g), G. Morrow (b), Mel Lewis (d) |
TRACKS
01. You’re the Top
02. Honeysuckle Rose
03. No Moon at All
04. I’ll See You in My Dreams
05. I Never Had a Chance
06. Stompin’ at the Savoy
07. Sweet Georgia Brown
08. I Won’t Dance
09. Let’s Begin
10. Come Rain or Come Shine
11. You’re a Clown
12. Easy Come, Easy Go
13. A Lover Is Blue
14. Mack the Knife
15. Gone with the Wind
16. Hershey Bar
17. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
18. Orphan Annie
19. The Way You Look Tonight
20. It Had to Be You
21. Hooray for Hollywood
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