Anita_Oday-Bolero_at_the_Savoy-4CD-2005-JUST

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JUST

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230,41 MB

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72

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2006-09-27

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Artist.......: Anita O'Day
Album........: Bolero At The Savoy
Label........: Quadromania
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: 222465
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Sep-26-2006
str.date.....: Feb-28-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.anitaoday.com

track  title                                          time

       CD1

 01.   Deep In The Blues                             03:18
 02.   Georgia On My Mind                            02:56
 03.   Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina     02:41
 04.   Slow Down                                     03:12
 05.   Let Me Off Uptown                             03:03
 06.   Green Eyes                                    02:37
 07.   Kick It                                       02:26
 08.   Stop, The Red Light's On                      03:19
 09.   The Walls Keep Talking                        03:12
 10.   How Do?                                       03:18
 11.   Coppin A Plea                                 02:44
 12.   Bolero At The Savoy                           02:52
 13.   Harlem On Parade                              02:46
 14.   That's What You Think                         03:13
 15.   Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street          03:08
 16.   Deliver Me To Tennessee                       03:17
 17.   Massachusetts                                 03:17
 18.   Murder  He Says                               03:19

       CD2

 01.   I'm Going Mad For A Pad                       03:07
 02.   And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine                03:08
 03.   Gotta Be Gettin'                              02:47
 04.   Are You Livin' Old Man?                       02:39
 05.   Travelin' Man                                 02:55
 06.   I Want A Grown- Up Man                        02:47
 07.   Them There Eyes                               02:40
 08.   Memories Of You                               02:59
 09.   How Come?                                     02:42
 10.   I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me   02:50
 11.   Boogie Blues                                  03:23
 12.   Ops 1                                         02:57
 13.   Chickery Chick                                02:56
 14.   Tea For Two                                   02:25
 15.   Sometimes I'm Happy                           02:40
 16.   Ace In The Hole                               02:57
 17.   What Is This Thing Called Love?               02:38
 18.   Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip                       02:24

       CD3

 01.   It's Different When It Happens To You         02:57
 02.   Malaguena                                     02:54
 03.   I Told Ya I Love You, Now Get Out             02:56
 04.   How High The Moon                             02:52
 05.   I Ain't Gettin' Any Younger                   03:01
 06.   Key Largo                                     02:53
 07.   Jamaica Moon                                  02:26
 08.   Dont Kick It Around                           03:24
 09.   So Much Of Nothing To Do                      03:11
 10.   Poor Simple Simon                             02:33
 11.   Blues For Bojangles                           03:11
 12.   Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Heart          02:42
 13.   Tennessee Waltz                               03:00
 14.   Yeah Bo                                       02:18
 15.   Something I Dreamed Last Night                03:10
 16.   If I Could Steal You From Somebody Else       02:29
 17.   You Took Advantage Of Me                      02:19
 18.   Once There Lived A Fool                       02:55

       CD4

 01.   I Apologize                                   03:03
 02.   Black Moonlight                               02:43
 03.   Lovesick Blues                                02:36
 04.   Lover, Come Back To Me                        02:26
 05.   Lullaby Of The Leaves                         03:09
 06.   Rock And Roll Blues                           03:17
 07.   Love For Sale                                 03:36
 08.   No Soap, No Hope Blues                        02:34
 09.   Speak Low                                     02:35
 10.   The Lady Is A Tramp                           02:39
 11.   Strawberry Moon                               03:08
 12.   Pagan Love Song                               02:39
 13.   Ain't This A Wonderful Day                    02:40
 14.   Somebody's Cryin                              03:00
 15.   Vaya Con Dios                                 03:39
 16.   Just One Of Those Things                      02:41
 17.   From This Moment On                           03:12
 18.   You're The Top                                02:24

                                            Runtime  208:44 min
                                            Size     230,1 MB


Release Notes:

Few female singers matched the hard-swinging and
equally hard-living Anita O'Day for sheer
exuberance and talent in all areas of jazz vocals.
Though three or four outshone her in pure quality
of voice, her splendid improvising, wide dynamic
tone and innate sense of rhythm made her the most
enjoyable singer of the age. O'Day's first
appearances in a big band shattered the traditional
image of a demure female vocalist by swinging just
as hard as the other musicians on the bandstand,
best heard on her vocal trading with Roy Eldridge
on the Gene Krupa recording "Let Me Off Uptown."
After making her solo debut in the mid-'40s, she
began incorporating bop modernism into her vocals
and recorded over a dozen of the best vocal LPs of
the era for Verve during the 1950s and '60s. Though
hampered by heavy drinking and later, drug
addiction, during her peak period, she made a
comeback and continued singing into the 1990s.

Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, she was raised
largely by her mother, and entered her first
marathon-dance contest while barely a teenager. She
spent time on the road and occasionally back at
home, later moving from dancing to singing at the
contests. After bad experiences amid brief tenures
with Benny Goodman and even Raymond Scott, O'Day
earned a place in Gene Krupa's band in 1941.
Several weeks later, Krupa also hired trumpeter Roy
Eldridge, and the trio combined to become an
effective force displayed on hits like "Let Me Off
Uptown," "Boogie Blues" and "Just a Little Bit
South of North Carolina." She spent a brief period
away from Krupa with Woody Herman, but returned to
the band, only to have it break up by 1943. After
moving to Stan Kenton, she starred on Kenton's
first big hit, 1944's "And Her Tears Flowed Like
Wine." Another stint with Krupa presaged her solo
debut in 1946, and with drummer John Poole as her
accompanist, she recorded a moderate hit one year
later with the novelty "Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip."

Her career really ignited after her first album
(and the first LP ever released by Verve), 1955's
Anita (also known as This Is Anita). Much more
successful in the jazz world than she was in its
pop equivalent, she performed at jazz festivals and
jazz-oriented concerts, appearing with figures
including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, and
George Shearing. Her performance at 1958's Newport
Jazz Festival made her fame worldwide after being
released on film titled Jazz on a Summer's Day.

O'Day's series of almost twenty Verve LPs during
the '50s and '60s proved her to be one of the most
distinctive, trend-setting, and successful vocal
artists of the time, arguably surpassed only by
Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. She worked with
a variety of arrangers and in many different
settings, including a hard-swinging Billy May
collaboration (Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with
Billy May), an excellent, intimate set with the
Oscar Peterson Quartet (Anita Sings the Most),
several with the mainstream Buddy Bregman Orchestra
(Pick Yourself Up, Anita), one with the cool-toned
Jimmy Giuffre (Cool Heat), and a Latin date with
Cal Tjader (Time for Two) as well as a
collaborative LP with the Blue Note instrumental
trio the Three Sounds. Even by the early '60s
however, her ebullient voice had begun sounding
tired; the cumulative effects of heroin addiction,
its resulting lifestyle, and a non-stop concert
schedule forced her into a physical collapse by
1967.

After taking several years to kick alcohol and drug
addictions, she made a comeback at the 1970 Berlin
Jazz Festival and returned in the early '70s with a
flood of live and studio albums, many recorded in
Japan and some released on her own label, Emily
Records. Her autobiography, 1981's High Times, Hard
Times was typically honest and direct regarding her
colorful past. Though her voice gradually
deteriorated, O'Day recorded throughout the 1970s
and '80s, into the '90s remaining an exciting,
forceful vocalist on record as well as in concert.

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