Cool Heat: Anita O'Day Sings Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements

by Anita O'Day

Cool Heat: Anita O'Day Sings Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:34
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

In a brilliant pairing of highly distinctive stylists, the agile vocalist collaborates with the famously subtle, structurally advanced arranger. The subdued, often drum-less orchestrations focus heavily on intricate woodwinds, providing a uniquely airy, chamber-jazz atmosphere for her horn-like phrasing. The album is a masterful, highly sophisticated intersection of vocal improvisation and cool jazz restraint.

Genres

Descriptors: Vocal, acoustic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Mack The Knife (3:09)
  2. Easy Come, Easy Go (3:13)
  3. Orphan Annie (2:02)
  4. You're A Clown (2:32)
  5. Gone With The Wind (2:27)
  6. Hooray For Hollywood (2:21)
  7. It Had To Be You (3:13)
  8. Come Rain Or Come Shine (2:16)
  9. Hershey Bar (2:07)
  10. A Lover Is Blue (3:02)
  11. My Heart Belongs To Daddy (2:54)
  12. The Way You Look Tonight (2:14)

Credits

  • Anita O'Day - primary artist, vocals
  • Jimmy Giuffre - arranged by, Primary Artist
  • Bertolt Brecht - written-by
  • Kurt Weill - written-by
  • Marc Blitzstein - written-by
  • Edward Heyman - written-by
  • Johnny Green - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by

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