Anita O\'Day - At Mister Kelly\'s (1958) torrent

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Caught live with just her piano trio at Chicago's famous now-defunct nightclub, Anita O'Day is in an ebullient mood as she tosses off a series of standards and novelties. Whether this is an accurate snapshot of her live act is open to question; the stage business in between numbers seems rather formal and one doesn't really feel the excitement of a live performance. Yet O'Day is clearly in a creative mood, whether allowing her vulnerability to show in the torchy ballads or reveling in the boppish uptempo workouts. Her vocal on "Tea For Two" is a virtuoso deconstruction, full of satiric quotes and rhythmic shifts at a warp-speed tempo. Fleet-fingered Joe Masters decorates the fills with standard bop runs on the slightly-out-of-tune house piano.

Track Listing:
1.But Not For Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
2.I Have A Reason For Living
3.Varsity Drag (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson)
4.It Never Entered My Mind (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
5.Tea For Two (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar)
6.Every Time I'm With You
7.Have You Met Miss Jones? (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
8. The Wildest Cat In Town
9.Star Eyes (Gene DePaul, Don Raye)
10.Loneliness Is A Well
11.The Song Is You ( Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)