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ANITA O'DAY: THE LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER
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Although she's generally acknowledged among jazz enthusiasts as being one of the great female jazz voices of the 20th century, the late Anita O'Day never considered herself to be a singer: In her own humble opinion, she was a song stylist. She lacked the voice of say, Sarah Vaughn -- she blamed her lack of tone on a slip of a surgeon's scalpel during a routine tonsillectomy that accidentally removed her uvula -- but she had wildly inventive phrasing and impeccable timing. She... read more leave a comment
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