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Anita O'Day Recs


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On October 25, 2016 at 3:26 PM, felser said:

Any of the Verve sessions.  

The album All the Sad Young Men is a favorite.   Superb Gary McFarland arrangements, an atypical song selection, and Anita's vocals.

This time of year, for some reason, I tend to listen to a lot of jazz/pop vocal Great American Songbook stuff, and this is always one of the first albums I reach for. 

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Only the real greats can deal with such an unexpected, unfamiliar context, and she definitely could. It's amazing how different the albums are that McFarland wrote for O'Day, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Bill Evans, and they all responded and could keep their musical selves. Quite an achievement on both sides.

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