View basket “Barefoot Adventure (SACD)” has been added to your basket. Anita O’Day and the Three Sounds Anita ODay SKU: 5352704 Barcode: 600753527047 14.00 £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve/Universal Released Date: 20th October 2014 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info This strange (and strangely compelling) album is the most controversial of all O’Day’s Verve Records releases, popular among O’Day’s hardcore fans for the showcase that the Three Sounds’ near-minimalist accompaniment affords her singing. On a lot of levels, however, it wasn’t a successful record. The album was a one-shot collaboration that happened in the narrowest possible window-of-opportunity. the Three Sounds, having left Blue Note, were passing through the Verve roster, where they would be active for about a week in October of 1962, cutting two albums in that time including this one with Anita O’Day, who was leaving the label after 10 years there. Anita O’Day & The Three Sounds is as much a Three Sounds record as it is an Anita O’Day recording — the group is represented by four instrumentals, including “Someday My Prince Will Come,” “My Heart Stood Still,” and “Blues By Five,” cut at the same time as their album Blue Genes, while O’Day sings five songs. She is amazingly restrained and low-key throughout most of her work here; on songs like the sultry “All Too Soon,” that works out fine, but elsewhere the fit between singer and group seems uncomfortable. There’s very little excitement or tension to give her songs energy, and O’Day never interacts with the trio in any discernable way. Additionally, she seems uninspired in terms of any inventiveness, with long stretches of silence where one would have expected her to improvise. What is here is fine, her husky yet playful voice a wonder to hear on “When The World Was Young” (where Gene Harris’s piano does come to life), but there’s amazingly little life to the proceedings. The one exception is “Whisper Not,” which also has the distinction of featuring O’Day’s Gene Krupa-era collaborator Roy Eldridge on trumpet and is the most successful cut here, as what one would look for on a more conventional Anita O’Day album. Artist Anita ODay Genre Jazz Label Verve/Universal Buying Options 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings When The Worlds Was Young Someday My Prince Will Come All Too Soon My Heart Stood Still My Ship Leave It To Me Whisper Not Blues By Five (Fly With Me To The Moon) In Other Words You And The Night And The Music Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Abbey Lincoln Abbey Is Blue Jazz | Cornbread | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th November 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Abbey Lincoln Abbey Is Blue £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Cornbread SKU: CRNBR16015 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jens Fossum Bass Detector Jazz | Ozella Music | 180g, 1LP Released 11th May 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jens Fossum Bass Detector £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Ozella Music SKU: OZ1057LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonny Clark Leapin’ and Lopin’ Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st October 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonny Clark Leapin’ and Lopin’ £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 4729260 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson The Timekeeprs (Analogue Productions/Pablo) Jazz | Analogue Productions/Pablo | 180g, 1LP Released 29th November 2024 £47.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson The Timekeeprs (Analogue Productions/Pablo) £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions/Pablo SKU: AAPJ 165 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 29th November 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joe McPhee Nation Time Jazz | Boweavil | 1LP Released 24th February 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe McPhee Nation Time £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Boweavil SKU: WEAVIL52LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bobby Hutcherson The Kicker Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th September 2020 £40.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bobby Hutcherson The Kicker £40.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 865925 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonny Fortune/Billy Harper/Stanley Cowell/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart Great Friends Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 2LP Released 25th February 2022 £47.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Sonny Fortune/Billy Harper/Stanley Cowell/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart Great Friends £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPAN024 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 25th February 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Anthony Wilson Hackensack West Jazz | Cohearent Records | 180g, 1LP Released 29th March 2024 £46.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anthony Wilson Hackensack West £46.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Cohearent Records SKU: COHLP2301 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 29th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charlie Byrd More Brazilian Byrd Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 25th May 2018 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charlie Byrd More Brazilian Byrd £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: CS9492 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 25th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eddie Harris Silver Cycles Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 28th August 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eddie Harris Silver Cycles £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1405 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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