Friday, October 2, 2009

Anita O'DAY & Cal TJADER - Time For Two 1962


Anita O'DAY & Cal TJADER - Time For Two 1962
Label: Verve
Audio CD: (June 22, 1999)
Recorded in Hollywood, California in February 1962

Jazz

Anita O'Day, who celebrates her 80th birthday in October, is the last of the great female jazz singers whose careers encompass swing and bop (and of course the rock era). Fans certify that she often outswung even her peer Ella Fitzgerald and was often more daring. Her husky-voiced way with ballads also gave birth to the "cool school" of vocalists. O'Day still has her commanding drive on fast tempos, improvising skills, and rhythmic surety intact, judging from her return to performing at New York's Avery Fisher Hall (on the same bill as her fans Manhattan Transfer) for the recent JVC Jazz Festival. The classic recordings on this handsome nine-CD boxed set, cut from 1952 to 1962 for Norman Granz (who also gave the world Fitzgerald's "Songbook" series), are O'Day's finest, and, for fans, got-to-haves. O'Day is largely unknown to many younger listeners, who may first want to sample any of the nine reissues of her individual Verve albums, including the just-released collaboration with Latin-tinged vibes king Cal Tjader, "Time For Two."
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Both Anita O'Day and Cal Tjader are strong believers in improvising, together they swing through some excellent material including an afro-cuban swing version of Mr Sandman which actually sounds hip.  O'Day with her completley black phrasing is perfect with Tjader's afro-cubam rhythms, also includes swing, blues, standards, all with a touch of hot jazz.  Highlights include "That's Your Red Wagon" "Peel Me A Grape" and an absolutly hot version of "Mr Sandman".  Highly recommended as are all of Miss O"Day's Verves.
From Amazon.com
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Anita O'Day- Vocals
Cal Tjader, Johnnie Rae- Vibraphone, Drums
Freddy Schreiber- Bass
Bob Corwin or Lonnie Hewitt- Piano
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01.  Thanks For The Memory
02.  It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
03.  Just In Time
04.  Under A Blanket Of Blue
05.  That's Your Red Wagon
06.  Peel Me A Grape
07.  An Occasional Man
08.  The Party's Over
09.  I Believe In You
10.  Mister Sandman
11.  Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
12.  I'm Not Supposed To Be Blue Blues
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