Anita O'Day was born on October 18, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Shortbus (2006), Zig Zag (1970) and The Gene Krupa Story (1959). She was married to Carl Hoff and Don ...

Anita O'Day was one of jazz's first “slick chicks." Born Anita Colton in 1919, O'Day was raised in Chicago. She left home during the Depression at age 14 to become a walk-a-thon contestant—the last ...

Jazz singer Anita O'Day died of a heart attack in 2006. She had possessed one of the music world's most distinctive voices, the product of a botched childhood tonsillectomy that left her without a ...

We're marking our 30th anniversary as a daily NPR program, with a retrospective of some of our favorite interviews from our early days. Drummer Max Roach was one of the originators of bebop. Singer ...

A good deal livelier than the usual music-doc embalming, this worshipful tribute to jazz singer Anita O’Day—completed shortly before her death in 2006 by her then manager, Robbie Cavolina, and ...

Vicki Burns sings from the heart in a sparkling tribute to celebrated jazz vocalist Anita O’Day, known for her dynamic, rhythmically-assured vocals. Burns and her stellar trio - Art Hirahara on piano, ...

Anita O'Day, 87, whose breathy voice and witty improvisation made her one of the most dazzling jazz singers of the last century and whose sex appeal and drug addiction earned her the nickname "the ...