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2007

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Starring	Will Friedwald, Johnny Mandel, Anita O'Day, Annie Ross
Director	Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden
Genres	Documentary, Music/Musical

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Anita O'Day - The Life of A Jazz Singer

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.

Starring	Will Friedwald, Johnny Mandel, Anita O'Day, Annie Ross, George Wein, Margaret Whiting, Gerald Wilson
Director	Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden
Studio	ESSENTIAL MUSIC
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary, Music/Musical
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2007 To Rent: DVD: 05 Oct 2009

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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 ...