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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 ...

Like many others, I was introduced to Anita O’Day (who died in 2006) through her flamboyant appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1960), which she identifies in this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz singer Anita O'Day died last week of a heart attack at the age of 87. She was known for her distinctive legato style, the result of a botched childhood tonsillectomy that left her without vibrato ...

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, ...

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 ...

O'Day died in her sleep early Thursday morning at a convalescent hospital in West Hollywood where she was recovering from a bout with pneumonia, said her manager Robbie Cavolina. "On Tuesday night, ...

Jazz great Anita O'Day, one of the legendary American singers from the 1940s and 1950s, has died at the age of 87 in a Los Angeles hospital. "She died in her sleep this morning from a cardiac arrest ...