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Anita O’Day: The Life of A Jazz Singer

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Length 1 hour 30 minutes
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Before her death in November 2006 at age 86, Anita O'Day, one of jazz's most complex and rhythmic vocalists, smiled on the music world for six decades. This film portrait captures all the magic that took this sly Chicago native, a white girl who could hold her own against Billie and Ella, from Gene Krupa's bandstand to solo stardom. Film footage of Anita O'Day's appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, immortalized in the 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day and excerpted here, may be the defining moment of the post-bebop era.

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dekehl, anonymous:

I highly recommend this documentary. I went to see this in NYC after reading the rave review in the NYTimes. I was spellbound by Ms. O'Day and the life she lived. The film is very well made, fast paced and left me wanting more!

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