Track Listings
1. Get Out of Town
2. S'Wonderful/They Can't Take That Away From Me
3. Just the Way You Look Tonight
4. Honeysuckle Rose
5. Four Brothers
6. Little Girl Blue
7. When the World Was Young
8. Quiet Nights
9. Street of Dreams
10. You'd Be So Easy to Love
11. You Can Depend On Me
12. You're Nobody `til Somebody Loves You
13. I Hear Music
14. Try Your Wings
More of Anita's music from her Emily label, October 28, 2006Reviewer: Steve Emerine (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
When Anita O'Day left Norman Granz and the Verve label, her next major recording stop was her own company, Emily, for which she recorded a number of swinging live LPs. This is the latest of them to be reissued on CD, and while the packaging and liner notes leave a little to be desired, the music itself is classic Anita. This live session from Basin Street West in 1964 includes a number of Anita's personal favorites from that era, including "Get Out of Town," "'S Wonderful," "Street of Dreams" and "Honeysuckle Rose," along with other tunes like the lesser known "Try Your Wings." The 14 tunes give you a 45-minute example of the jazz singer in her prime. She's still doing occasional appearances now that she's in her 80s, but -- unfortunately (and understandably) -- not singing as well as she did for the Verve and Emily labels.
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