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All The Sad Young Men (Import) (CD)

By: Anita O'Day

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DISC 1 for All The Sad Young Men (Import) (CD) Album By Anita O'Day
1   Boogie Blues  
2   You Came A Long Way From St Louis  
3   I Want To Sing A Song  
4   Woman Alone With The Blues  
5   Ballad Of All The Sad Young Men  
6   Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me  
7   One More Mile  
8   Night Bird  
9   Up State  
10   Senor Blues  
 

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Personnel: Anita O'Day (vocals).
The Gary McFarland Orchestra: Gary McFarland (conductor, arranger); Walter Levinsky, Phil Woods (alto saxophone, clarinet); Jerome Richardson, Zoot Sims (tenor saxophone); Bernie Glow, Doc Severinsen, Herb Pomeroy (trumpet); Billy Byers, Willie Dennis (trombone); Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone); Hank Jones (piano); Barry Galbraith (guitar); George Duvivier (bass); Mel Lewis (drums).
Recorded in New York, New York on October 16, 1961 and at Sunset Recorders, Los Angeles, California from November to December 1961. Originally issued on Verve (8442). Includes liner notes by Dom Cerulli.
Digitally remastered using 22-bit technology by Kevin Reeves (Polygram Studios).
This is part of Verve's By Request series.
One of the greatest of jazz singers, Anita O'Day can also be one of the most erratic. When she's on, O'Day is a brilliant improviser, endlessly creative yet shrewdly paring away any extra-musical excess that might obscure her interpretations. On the occasional off day, O'Day's famous vibrato-less instrument would fail her pitchwise. Ever the unromantic "hip chick," her unconvincing ballads can then be mired in low-energy bathos.
Happily, ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN is crisply arranged by the equally creative Gary McFarland. O'Day convivially meets him halfway in a well-chosen set of mostly lesser known bluesy numbers, three of which were written by McFarland expressly for this session. Speaking of the blues, the album opens and closes with breezy trademark O'Day performances of two jazz originals, Gene Krupa's "Boogie Blues," which Anita used to scat in her celebrated Krupa-Eldridge days, and Horace Silver's "Senor Blues." But the highlight here has to be O'Day's knowing take on the title tune, Fran Landesman & Tommy Wolf's well-sketched portrait of '50s bohemia, a likely subject for bathos, sure, but the singer's cool rendition turns all skepticism inside out. Creed Taylor's well-recorded 1961 production has been superbly remastered in another choice addition to Verve's By Request series.

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One of the greatest of jazz singers, Anita O'Day can also be one of the most erratic. When she's on, O'Day is a brilliant improviser, endlessly creative yet shrewdly paring away any extra-musical excess that might obscure her interpretations. On the occasional off day, O'Day's famous vibrato-less instrument would fail her pitchwise. Ever the unromantic "hip chick", her unconvincing ballads can then be mired in low-energy bathos.
Happily, ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN is crisply arranged by the equally creative Gary McFarland. O'Day convivially meets him halfway in a well-chosen set of mostly lesser known bluesy numbers, three of which were written by McFarland expressly for this session. Speaking of the blues, the album opens and closes with breezy trademark O'Day performances of two jazz originals, Gene Krupa's "Boogie Blues", which Anita used to scat in her celebrated Krupa-Eldridge days, and Horace Silver's "Senor Blues". But the highlight here has to be O'Day's knowing take on the title tune, Fran Landesman & Tommy Wolf's well-sketched portrait of '50s bohemia, a likely subject for bathos, sure, but the singer's cool rendition turns all skepticism inside out. Creed Taylor's well-recorded 1961 production has been superbly remastered in another choice addition to Verve's By Request series.

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