Anita O'Day performs at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. It's a rare talent who can be credibly mentioned in the same breath as such jazz greats as Charlie "Bird" Parker and Billie Holiday. It's a ...

Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds; When The World Was Young; Someday My Prince Will Come; All Too Soon; My Heart Stood Still; My Ship; Leave It To Me; Whisper Not; Blues By Five; Fly Me To The Moon (In ...

Anita O'Day was one of jazz's first “slick chicks." Born Anita Colton in 1919, O'Day was raised in Chicago. She left home during the Depression at age 14 to become a walk-a-thon contestant—the last ...

For the bulk of her career, the late Anita O’Day (1919-2006) described herself, quite accurately, as a “song stylist” rather than just a jazz vocalist. Not surprisingly, then, the central sequence in ...