Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sings the Winners (Bonus Track Version) - Anita O'Day

Sings the Winners (Bonus Track Version) - Anita O'Day

Biography

Born: October 18, 1919 in Chicago, IL

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

Few female singers matched the hard-swinging and equally puzzling-living Anita O'Day for move aside. exuberance and talent in all areas of jazz vocals. Though three or four outshone her in perfect quality of voice, her splendid improvising, large dynamic tone, and innate sense of periodical emphasis made her the most enjoyable chanter of the age. O'Day's earliest appearances in a big band shattered the traditional image of a demure female singer by swinging just as hard considered in the state of the other musicians on the bandstand, superlatively good heard on...

Track list

Take the "A" Train (For Duke Ellington)
Tenderly (For Oscar Peterson)
Interlude (A Night in Tunisia) [For Dizzy Gillespie]
Four (For Miles Davis)
Early Autumn (For Stan Getz)
Four Brothers (For Woody Herman)
Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [For Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman]
My Funny Valentine (For Gerry Mulligan)
Frenesi (For Artie Shaw)
Body and Soul (For Coleman Hawkins)
What's Your Story, Morning Glory (For Jimmie Lunceford)
The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) [For Stan Kenton]
But Not in favor of Me (Bonus Track)
Medley: I Have a Reason with respect to Living / My Love for You (Bonus Track)
The Varsity Drag (Bonus Track)
It Never Entered My Mind (Bonus Track)
Tea beneficial to Two (Bonus Track)
Everytime I’m With You (Bonus Track)
Have You Met Miss Jones? (Bonus Track)
The Wildest Gal in Town (Bonus Track)
Star Eyes (Bonus Track)
Loneliness Is a Well (Bonus Track)
The Song Is You (Bonus Track)
Verve Remixed 3 (iTunes Version)
Anita Sings the Most
The Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 2: I Get a Kick Out of You
Anita Sings the Most
Verve Remixed (Box Set - Deluxe Edition)
Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
Shortbus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
Anita O'Day's Finest Hour

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