Right now the Tribeca Film Festival is going on and one of the movies that has it's premiere there is a documentary about jazz singer Anita Oday called: "Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer".
Take a look at the trailer for the documentary at Anita O'day's official website. If you're at the Tribeca Film Festival you can see the film on Friday and Sunday.
Anita O'day passed away in the end of last year. She will be remembered as a great jazz singer. What I admire about Anita O'day is her marvelous phrasing, one outstanding example of her phrasing can be heard on the following video clip from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 where Anita O'day sings Sweet Georgia Brown in three different styles .
I especially like the way she presents the line in the lyrics that goes: "I don't lie... much".
The video clip is from the documentary "Jazz on a Summer's Day" from 1960 by Bert Stern.
You can compare her version with the other versions of Sweet Georgia Brown that I've posted.
What do you think of Anita O'day? Tell me.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
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She is absolutely exquisite; sophisticated, alluring and a vocal style I could listen to for hours...
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