Anita O'day

Anita O'day

Anita Belle Colton

00:05 - 1- Life -Called "one of the finest singers to emerge from the swing era" by Scott Yanow in the All Music Guide to Jazz, Anita O'Day has been hailed as one of the most distinctive voices in the history of jazz. She advanced from a Billie Holiday-type style to her own inventive technique that made her equally adept at interpreting songs as written and improvising with a flair matched by few. O'Day was also the chief inspiration of many famed singers who came to prominence in the 1940s, including June Christy, Chris Connor, and Helen Merrill. She has had one of the longest active careers among jazz singers, now spanning over 60 years. Her tenure in front of the microphone is all the more incredible considering that she was addicted to heroin during many of her peak years.
She joined a burlesque show as a teenager, and then was asked to replace a singer who had laryngitis. During the Depression she endured an exhausting tenure as a contestant in dance marathons, at which time she assumed the stage name of O'Day. When she was 19 she scratched out a living by becoming a singing waitress and dice-girl, finally landing some jobs as a singer with local Chicago groups. One of her key venues as a performer was the Off-Beat, a night spot frequented by musicians such as the drummer and band leader Gene Krupa.
As Len Lyons and Don Perlo noted in Jazz Portraits: The Lives and Music of the Jazz Masters, "O'Day was uncomfortable with the rigid structure of the music and highbrow attitude of the group."
03:02- 2- Career- Her eagerness for a more freewheeling atmosphere brought O'Day back to Krupa's band in 1945, which by then had the services of the bebop-style pianist Dodo Marmaros and clarinetist Buddy DeFranco. After leaving Krupa in 1946, O'Day explored her potential as a solo artist. Her first solo work was recorded on the Signature label in 1947, and on her own she began to demonstrate her exceptional versatility. In his review of Anita O'Day 1949?1950 on Tono, Yanow wrote that the singer "handles the wide variety of songs (ranging from bop and dated novelties to calypso and 'Tennessee Waltz') with humor and swing, mostly uplifting the occasionally indifferent material."
Starting in 1950, O'Day sang with a number of small bands, and worked as a session singer in the studio. Her career received a major boost after she signed on with the new Verve jazz label produced by Norman Granz. She hit her peak in 1955 with Anita, about which Yanow stated: "O'Day is heard near the peak of her powers on such songs as 'You're the Top,' 'Honeysuckle Rose,' an emotional rendition of 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,' and 'As Long as I Live.'"
As her fame spread during the 1950s, O'Day was in demand for festivals and concerts that featured the greatest jazz stars of her day--including Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, and Thelonious Monk. Many fans and critics have attested that the high point of her career was her performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958, which was called "sensational" by Barry Kernfeld in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Her versions of "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea for Two" at the Festival brought down the house, and were also preserved in a filmed account of the event.

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