VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 16-20 of 20

 

In this collection by the German "History" label, you get nearly 40 hours of digitally remastered original 78s and 45s. The sound quality is truly amazing - the remastering process removes hiss, clicks & pops; optimizes the equalization, and synthesizes stereo. The forty discs in this set are grouped into twenty 2-disc volumes which are dedicated to a vocalist or pair or vocalists.

Volume 16. Peggy Lee — Everything I Love
Volume 17. Anita O’Day / June Christy — Easy Street
Volume 18. Jo Stafford — Fools Rush In
Volume 19. Frank Sinatra / Ivy Anderson — It Don’t Mean A Thing
Volume 20. Billie Holiday / Jimmy Rushing —   Blue Skies

Verve Jazz Masters series Vol. 41-50

 Jazz Masters is a series of mainly single artist compilations released by Polygram/Verve between 1994 and 1996. The compilations collect material that was originally released on Verve or on one of the labels that became part of the Polygram group. The 20th and 60th releases in the series were various artist collections.

VJM 41 - Tal Farlow

VJM 42 - Sarah Vaughan - The Jazz Sides

VJM 43 - Ben Webster

VJM 44 - Clifford Brown And Max Roach

VJM 45 - Kenny Burrell

VJM 46 - Ella Fitzgerald - The Jazz Sides

VJM 47 - Billie Holiday Sings Standards

VJM 48 - Oliver Nelson

VJM 49 - Anita O'Day

VJM 50 - Sonny Stitt

 

Anita O'Day - The Complete Anita O'Day Verve-Clef Sessions (9 CD, 2019) [FLAC]

 

This collection presents everything Anita O'Day recorded for Norman Granz' Clef and Verve labels, including her reunion with Gene Krupa in 1956, and her cameo number in "The Gene Krupa Story". Except that one track is missing - "Get Out Of Town", from the album "Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter With Billy May", which was track 9 on disc 6 of the original Mosaic box set, is not here. Nevertheless, 197 tracks for just over a tenner is astonishing value. You can find a review of the music in this set here: Anita was a real jazz singer and her interpretations of the great American songbook are much more original than many of the time.

VA - Diva series (Verve, 10 CD, 2003)

 

Perfect 9+1 CD series from Verve

• Anita O'Day
• Astrud Gilberto
• Billie Holiday
• Blossom Dearie
• Carmen McRae
• Dinah Washington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Nina Simone
• Sarah Vaughan
• The Ultimate Diva Collection

 

 

Anita O'Day - Eight Classic Albums (4 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 

Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money.