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Anita O'Day sang like an angel, lived like the devil and made enough great music to fill a couple of lifetimes. Actually, she did live twice, considering that a heroin overdose killed her briefly in 1966, before revival with a then-experimental electric-shock device. It's practically a miracle O'Day lived to age 87, singing nearly until the time of her death in 2006...
Fans and critics are welcoming the latest recording from 23-year-old vocalist Rachael Price. “An alarmingly mature delivery,” writes George Harris in the LA Jazz Weekly, “mix Anita O'Day's timing with a young Sarah Vaughan's sense of dynamics, and you get a feel for why she sang with T.S. Monk's sextet.... [there is] lots to like and adore on this welcome release by a lady whose value is likely to...
Welcome back to another edition of Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to the latest in abandon, excess and best-kept secrets at a theater near you. We're looking at an unusually busy — and...
Review: 'Jazz on a Summer's Day' PLOT One of the pre-eminent women of jazz, captured through her music and her reflections on a turbulent, rigorously honest life. CAST Anita O'Day, Johnny Mandel, Annie Ross LENGTH 1:31 PLAYING AT Cinema Village, Manhattan BOTTOM LINE Swinging, satisfying portrait of a woman who was among the best at what she did. And whom, after this film, you'd really like to have...
"The great jazz singer Anita O'Day operated in some far-out be-bop realm of her own, a small kingdom of dingy nightclubs and brute-force trios where she flashed her sharp, pretty teeth and her knowing cartoon eyes while living on...
THE greatest female jazz sing ers of all time? According to experts interviewed in "Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer," they are Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Ms. O'Day, the only white chick in the bunch. Just why O'Day...
By Dan Callahan [ Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer opens August 15th at Cinema Village in Manhattan. ] The great jazz singer Anita O’Day operated in some far-out be-bop realm of her own, a small kingdom of dingy nightclubs and brute-force trios where she flashed her sharp, pretty teeth and her knowing cartoon eyes while living on the edge of music and even consciousness. In 2000, I was lucky...
If Anita O’Day didn’t invent the role of the hip white chick, she certainly held the patent on it. All you have to do is watch Bert Stern’s strange, almost hallucinatory 1958 documentary, “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” to get a fairly good idea of O’Day’s particular talents. In the . . .
