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 ...
In the 1950s, Anita O'Day was such a big name in jazz that she rated a mention in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." She was the first artist recorded by Norman Granz for his fledgling Verve jazz label, ...