Anita O'day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer

2008, Movie, NR, 92 mins

Anita O'day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer: Review

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