Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63
Available now on DVD - Video and Audio CD
This is the 1963 live televised concert in Japan. Anita is backed by a full Japanese Orchestra. This particular concert has never been released. It a gem of a performance capturing Anita at the pinnacle of her classic period.
It is really something else. Listen to some clips and watch the excerpt from the video.
You can also buy it now as a download at iTunes and other digital shops
Click to watch a clip from the show
SONGS INCLUDE:
BOOGIE
BLUES click to listen
TRAV’LIN’ LIGHT
HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
AVALON click to listen
BEWITCHED click to listen
YOU’D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO
NIGHT AND DAY
LET’S FALL IN LOVE
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN
TEA FOR TWO
STELLA BY STARLIGHT
LOVE FOR SALE click to listen
GET OUT OF TOWN
THAT OLD FEELING
FOUR BROTHERS
READ THE FABULOUS REVIEWS!!
Anita O'Day.. Live In Tokyo 1963..Kayo Stereophonic 2007/2008 DVD and CD
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CD Releases
Date: Mar 10, 2007 - 04:22 PM
John Gilbert
This album has been a long time coming. It has never been released until now. You will hear Anita at her best in this '63televised concert fromJapan. A big band is the format with arrangements by Buddy Bregman andfeaturing Bob Corwin at the piano. In this world of faux jazz singers,Miss O'Day shines through like an aurora borealis.
There are 15 tunes on this recording and every one is superb. The starswere aligned just right when God gave Anita O'Day her voice, and here wehave a chance to listen to her soaring like a high flying acrobat and singing the bottom out of every note on the ballads.
On "Boogie Blues" O''Day parlays the blues into a new dimension with a
driving big band arrangement.
"Honeysuckle Rose" opens with Anita singing with the bass. Strutting and
sashaying musically O'Day takes this old chestnut to new heights.
A racehorse tempo on "Avalon" finds Miss O'Day swinging this tune into orbit, up in the rarefied air where few dare to go.
"Night And Day" is the highlight of this marvelous record. Phrasing magically and articulating cleverly, she brings this tune to a tempo faster than a bootlegger heading for the county line.
From the film Jazz on a summer's day, Miss O'Day reprises "Sweet Georgia Brown" This tune starts off in a slow mode and then O'Day jumps on this
number like a hungry hobo on a ham sandwich...The swing chorus is beyond adequate description, suffice it to say that this number cannot be overstated.
From the same movie "Tea For Two" is a vocal jam session and a clinic in bop singing. the exchanges with the instrumentation goes from 8's to 4's to 2's to 1's. This is a tune every aspiring vocalist should study. No singer on the scene today (with Nancy Kelly being the exception) has the innate God given talent that Anita O'Day is blessed with.
"That Old Feeling" will give the listener a new feeling that captures the ear in a manner so pleasant that a smile is inevitable.
Last but hardly the least is "Four Brothers" as O'Day scats like magic.
On the trades with the trumpet and sax , Anita takes no prisoners.
This is a true jazz recording with a singer so far ahead of her peers that few are even close. A clinic? more than that, this is the quintessential jazz artist at her very best. In a word this album is both irresistible and most importantly a valuable addition to America's art form.
5 Stars
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ALL ABOUT JAZZ Review
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25211
Live in Tokyo ‘63
Anita O’Day | Kayo Records (2007)
By C. Michael Bailey
Inevitable with the upcoming screening of the documentary Anita O’Day The Life of a Jazz Singer at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival is the release of Live in Tokyo ‘63. This is the soundtrack to a televised concert in Japan during O’Day’s fruitful association with Verve records that was to last the decade. This inevitability is good fortune for O’Day enthusiasts as this concert presents O’Day at the top of her game, still basking in the incandescence of her filmed performance in Jazz on a Summer’s Day.
O’Day is backed by a big band made up of the Japanese All-Star Orchestra, conducted by Toshiyuki Miyama coupled with Inomata and his West Liners. Buddy Bergman is in charge of the arrangements and O’Day stalwart Bob Corwin is at the piano. O’Day performs a basic standards set that includes one of her signature tunes, “Boogie Blues” (but not “Leave Me Off Uptown”). O’Day reprises her Jazz on a Summer’s Day pair of songs here, replete with mention of the movie. “Sweet Georgia Brown” necessarily lacks the voltage of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival performance, but O’Day positively sizzles on “Tea for Two.”
O’Day proves her chops on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” “Stella by Starlight,” “Love for Sale,” and “Night and Day.” The real treat is the closing Jimmy Giuffre standard, “Four Brothers.” O’’Day demonstrates with scat, vocalese, and singing that she has only one real peer, the late Ella Fitzgerald. Live in Tokyo ‘63 only solidifies this deserved reputation.
ALL ABOUT JAZZ April 2007 issue.
by George Harris
Anita O'Day
Live in Tokyo 1963
For those of you who did not know much about Anita O'Day when her obituary was published earlier in the year, here is a good place to discover the reason for all of the accolades. Recorded as a soundtrack to a televised concert from Japan, Live in Tokyo 1963 captures O'Day at the absolute peak of the talents, when she was putting out all of those wonderful Verve recordings. Backed by a full orchestra with arrangements by Buddy Bregman, O'Day swings the daylights out of songs like "Avalon" and "Tea for Two" Her version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" is on par with her famous delivery from the classic film Jazz on a Summer's Day, where she takes the lyrics and puts them through a blender. Her wordless vocals on the closing "Four Brothers" demonstrates impeccable timing. This lady could swing like no other. Recorded in glorious mono, the sound quality is excellent for its time period. Anita O'Day's Live in Tokyo 1963 is an essential addition to all of her famous studio recordings, as this is possibly her best live date. Gobble it up!