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AVID Jazz presents four classic Anita ODay albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. Pick Yourself Up; Cool Heat; Incomparable; Waiter, Make Mine Blues plus two tracks from the soundtrack of Jazz on a Summers Day. Avid are delighted to release a second volume from one our top selling artists, the incomparable Miss Anita ODay. Quotes from the original liner notes from all four of our selections more than do justice in describing this unique vocalist! From Pick Yourself Up
..there was a time
..that I used to listen to all other singers and musicians
..I thought that was a good way of keeping up with
.the music scene
..I feel that now Ive got my own style and I dont want to be influenced
.by what other people are doing and
Anita herself is so vitally concerned with musicianship in her singing she is also a stickler for getting the best musicians and arrangements behind her. Heres a few she chose for this set
.Barney Kessel, Ted Nash, Shelly Manne, Pete and Conte Candoli, Stan Getz, Bud Shank, Jimmy Guiffre and Jim Hall! From Cool Heat
..by its very gentleness and supple lyricism, this is a unique Anita ODay album. Her singing is no less ardent or swinging
..but for the first time in several years
..a whole program has been given over to
..her capacity to concentrate her emotion, to underplay, and to swing softly. From Incomparable
If improvisation is at the heart of jazz, then Anita ODay is at the heart of vocal improvisation. Imaginative invention springs forth in a great stream, no matter what the tune or the tempo, resulting in jazz statements that are always exciting, always listenable, always musical and highly personal, placing her in a category all by herself. There are imitators-and good ones-but the constant surprises, the relaxed, swinging air Anita exudes in her performances place her miles ahead of the competition or in other words, as the album title suggests, Incomparable!! Finally from Waiter, Make Mine Blues
Anita ODay sounds like no other living singer
.she has won her fair share of polls and enjoyed her measure of public recognition. Most important of all, though, she has remained a musician at heart, and has always been respected by fellow musicians All four albums have been digitally re-mastered.
CD1 1-12: Pick Yourself Up 1. Dont Be That Way 2. Lets Face The Music And Dance 3. I Never Had A Chance 4. Stompin At The Savoy 5. Pick Yourself Up 6. Stars Fell On Alabama 7. Sweet Georgia Brown 8. I Wont Dance 9. Man With A Horn 10. I Used To Be Color Blind 11. Theres A Lull In My Life 12. Lets Begin 13-24: Cool Heat 13. Mack The Knife 14. Easy Come, Easy Go 15. Orphan Annie 16. Youre A Clown 17. Gone With The Wind 18. Hooray For Hollywood 19. It Had To Be You 20. Come Rain Or Come Shine 21. Hershey Bar 22. A Lover Is Blue 23. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 24. The Way You Look Tonight 25. Sweet Georgia Brown from Jazz On A Summers Days 26. Tea For Two from Jazz On A Summers Days
CD2 1-12: Incomparable 1. It Could Happen To You 2. Blue Champagne 3. Avalon 4. Old Devil Moon 5. The Partys Over 6. Why Shouldnt I? 7. Easy Living 8. Cant We Be Friends 9. Slaughter On 10th Avenue 10. If I Love Again 11. Speak Low 12. Indian Summer 13-24: Waiter, Make Mine Blues 13. That Old Feeling 14. Angel Eyes 15. The Thrill Is Gone 16. Detour Ahead 17. Yesterdays 18. Waiter, Make Mine Blues 19. Whatever Happened To You 20. When Sonny Gets Blue 21. Stella By Starlight 22. Mad About The Boy 23. A Blues Serenade 24. Goodbye
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