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Discovery Records
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• Anita O’Day shows in this set why her over-all feeling and delivery mark her as one of the few women in the field who could ever accurately be called a jazz singer. She was a more imaginative singer than her imitators, not merely because she was original, but also because she was much more inventive.
• Two talented and utterly dissimilar arrangers contributed the imaginatively varied scores for these sessions, the first two by Buddy Bregman, the last three by Jimmy Giuffre. Reveling in the settings - the difference between hot and cool - Anita O’Day has a great time, not only on the swinging tunes, to which she contributes some trademark, zestful, inventive scatting, but also in singing ballads with a sure touch.
• Backing her, Bregman and Giuffre used some of the finest Hollywood jazzmen, with Stan Getz particularly warm and lyrical on ‘I Never Had a Chance’. These are probably the best jazz sides recorded by Anita O’Day in the Fifties, and if you enjoy vocal records in the slightest bit, do yourself a favour and get this one.
• Personnel : Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon, Gil Falco, Tom Reeves (tp), Milt Bernhart, Lloyd Ulyate, Joe Howard, Si Zentner, Frank Rosolino, Gil Falco (tb), Alan Harding, Bud Shank (fl, as), Art Pepper, Les Robinson (as), Stan Getz, Richie Kamuca (ts), Jimmy Giuffre (bars), Paul Smith, André Previn (p), Barney Kessel, Jim Hall (g), Joe Mondragon, George Morrow (b), Alvin Stoller, Mel Lewis (d). Recorded Hollywood, Capitol Studios, December 8, 1955, December 20, 1956, Radio Recorders, Hollywood, April 6, 7 & 8, 1959. |
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Track Listing for Hot & Cool Heat - sings Buddy Bregman & Jimmy Giuffre arrs.
1 You’re the Top
2 Honeysuckle Rose
3 No Moon at All
4 I’ll See You in My Dreams
5 I Never Had a Chance
6 Stompin’ at the Savoy
7 Sweet Georgia Brown
8 I Won’t Dance
9 Let’s Begin
10 Come Rain or Come Shine
11 You’re a Clown
12 Easy Come, Easy Go
13 A Lover Is Blue
14 Mack the Knife
15 Gone with the Wind
16 Hershey Bar
17 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
18 Orphan Annie
19 The Way You Look Tonight
20 It Had to Be You
21 Hooray for Hollywood
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Reviews |
| Jazzwise - Peter Quinn |
| There are riches aplenty here. |
| Jazz Journal - Gordon Jack |
| She thrives in these imaginative Buddy Bregman and Jimmy Giuffre settings with also feature some of Hollywood's finest. |
| Jazz Rag - Peter Vacher |
| All in all, a fascinating album and the perfect introduction to O'Day for the newcomer. |
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