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An amazing amount (9 CDs!) of utterly glorious music by one of the finest vocalists of the classic jazz era, backed by top-notch accompanists from Oscar Peterson to Gene Krupa to Roy Eldridge. The set includes the infamously obtuse vocal introduction to Let Me Off Uptown where O'Day presumes to enlighten Eldridge, who pretends ignorance of Harlem, about what was uptown.The set encompasses a wide range of contexts: big-band dates arranged by Buddy Bregman, Billy May, Russ Garcia, Johnny Mandel, Marty Paich, Bill Holman and Gary McFarland; small-group collaborations with Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Giuffre, The Three Sounds and Cal Tjader; a reunion with Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge; and the live club recording at Chicago’s Mr. Kelly’s. Highlights includePick Yourself Up,Waiter, Make Mine Blues,Incomparable(featuring Holman’s brilliant use of O’Day’s voice as a horn), andTime for Twowith Tjader’s Latin jazz group.The set includes the infamously obtuse vocal introduction to Let Me Off Uptown where O'Day presumes to enlighten Eldridge, who pretends ignorance of Harlem, about what was uptown.Mosaic’s package adds alternate takes and singles alongside a 32-page booklet with sessionography, rare photographs by William Claxton, Herman Leonard and Bob Parent, and essays by Will Friedwald and others. Limited in number and now out of print, this remains the definitive document of Anita O’Day’s Verve/Clef legacy.
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