Another #AnitaO'Day Video

Another Anita O'Day Video - JazzWax https://t.co/gulio1ubBr

— blakndnigga2dabone (@blakndn) October 28, 2016

Four #AnitaO'Day Videos

Four Anita O'Day Videos - JazzWax https://t.co/sb4ljoWMtk

— blakndnigga2dabone (@blakndn) October 25, 2016

Anita O'day performing at Newport Jazz Festival.

Anita performing "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea for Two" at Newport Jazz festival in 1958.
This clip is extracted from the film "Jazz on a Summer's Day".

Anita O'Day

Coming June 9th 2009

Anita O'Day The Life of a Jazz Singer DVD ......(with 90 minutes of bonus interviews and uninterrupted performances; a thirty-two page booklet with color plates from Anita's actual scrapbooks)

Recorded Materials
Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63 (AUDIO CD and DVD in stores now.) NEW RELEASE!!!! Vintage Anita at her peak.
Indestructble! Anita O'Day -- Last Recording - at 85 years old
Angel Eyes
My Ship
Live at Mingos
Skylark...Exclusively online at itunes and all the other digital stores.
The Diva Series
An Evening with Anita O'Day
Let Me Off Uptown (Gene Krupa Big Band)
Anita O'Day and Stan Kenton Big Band
Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
Anita Verve Records very first release! A MUST HAVE!
Pick Yourself Up
Anita O'Day Sings The Winners
Trav'lin' Light
Waiter, Make Mine Blues
All The Sad Young Men
Live At Mister Kelley's
Incomparable!
Cool Heat
Anita Sings The Most (With Oscar Peterson)
The Ultimate Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds
Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers & Hart
Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Cole Porter
Time For 2 (With Cal Tjader)
The Lady is a Tramp/Colates
Anita O'Day and Gene Krupa (Big Band)
http://www.anitaoday.com/RECORDINGS.html

Anita O'day & Gene Krupa - "Boogie Ride"

Anita O'Day....

Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1919. Anita died on Thanksgiving morning November 23, 2006. O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually changed her name to O’Day and in the late 1930’s began singing in a jazz club called the Off- Beat, a popular hangout for musicians like band leader and drummer Gene Krupa. In 1941 she joined Krupa’s band, and a few weeks later Krupa hired trumpeter Roy Eldridge. O’Day and Eldridge had great chemistry on stage and their duet “Let Me Off Uptown” became a million-dollar-seller, boosting the popularity of the Krupa band. Also that year, “Down Beat” magazine named O’Day “New Star of the Year” and, in 1942, she was selected as one of the top five big band singers.

After her stint with, Krupa, O’Day joined Stan Kenton's band. She left the band after a year and returned to Krupa. Singer Jackie Cain remembers the first time she saw O’Day with the Krupa band. “I was really impressed,” she recalls, “She (O’Day) sang with a jazz feel, and that was kind of fresh and new at the time.” Later, O’Day joined Stan Kenton’s band with whom she cut an album that featured the hit tune “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine”

In the late’40s, O’Day struck out on her own. She teamed up with drummer John Poole, with whom she played for the next 32 years. Her album “Anita”, which she recorded on producer Norman Granz’s new Verve label, elevated her career to new heights. She began performing in festivals and concerts with such illustrious musicians as Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Georg Shearing and Thelonious Monk. O’Day also appeared in the documentary filmed at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 called “Jazz on a Summer Day”, which made her an international star.

Throughout the ‘60s Anita continued to tour and record while addicted to heroin and in 1969 she nearly died from an overdose. O’Day eventually beat her addiction and returned to work. In 1981 she published her autobiography “High Times, Hard Times” which, among other things, talked candidly about her drug addiction. More biographical information reprinted with permission from http://www.npr.org
http://anitaoday.com/homepage.html