Track Listing

1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. Little Girl Blue
3. Let Me Off Uptown
4. An Occasional Man
5. Four Brothers
6. Tea For Two
7. Boogie Blues
8. God Bless The Child
9. What Is This Thing Called Love?
10. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
11. The Way You Look Tonight
12. When Sunny Gets Blue
13. Peel Me A Grape
14. Sing, Sing, Sing
15. Them There Eyes
16. Anita's Blues
17. Sweet Georgia Brown
18. The Party's Over

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21204 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Though born in 1919 Anita O'Day still apparently occasionally performs near her US home and throughout her long career she has always had the qualities necessary to make her one of the small group of great jazz singers. A very personal, warm and slightly husky vocal timbre and her ability to improvise and swing strongly are evident throughout this selection from her Verve recordings of the 1950s and early 1960s. Variety is the keynote, with blues and ballads mingled, slow tempos balanced by fast ones and accompaniments ranging from big band to trio. Her versions here of "Tea For Two" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" recall her stunning performances of those songs in the famous film Jazz On A Summer's Day. The accompanists include Oscar Peterson and Barney Kessel and Kessel's guitar is her only support in a version of "God Bless The Child". This pays tribute to Billie Holiday but shows how distinctively Anita could fashion her own interpretations, using her own tougher, less vulnerable approach. --Graham Colombé