Albums by Anita O'Day
ALBUMAnita O'Day (Remastered)Anita O'Day
ALBUMThere's Only One (Remastered)Anita O'Day
ALBUMRules Of The Road (feat. The Jack Sheldon Orchestra)Anita O'Day
ALBUMAll the Sad Young MenAnita O'Day & The Gary McFarland Orchestra
ALBUMAnita O'Day and the Three SoundsAnita O'Day
ALBUMTime For 2Cal Tjader & Anita O'Day
ALBUMWaiter, Make Mine the BluesAnita O'Day
ALBUMTrav'lin' LightAnita O'Day
ALBUMAnita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and HartAnita O'Day & Billy May
ALBUMCool Heat - Anita O'Day Sings Jimmy Giuffre ArrangementsAnita O'Day
Artist Playlists
Anita O'Day Essentials
The uncompromising jazz diva was hip and knew it.
Anita O'Day: Deep Cuts
The ebullient jazz singer raised every tune's profile.
Artist Biography
Few female singers matched the hard-swinging Anita O'Day for sheer exuberance and skill in all areas of jazz vocals: her splendid improvising, wide range, dynamic tone, and innate sense of rhythm made her one of the most enjoyable singers 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 incorporated 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 during her peak period by heavy drinking and, later, drug addiction, she made a comeback and continued singing into the new millennium.
Hometown
Chicago, IL, United States
Genre
Jazz