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Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life

Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life

Gavin, James

Hardcover

Series: Popular Music History

MusiciansJazzMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1800503091
ISBN13: 9781800503090
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How did Anita O'Day-the legendary jazz singer who, along with Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Stan Getz, led the so-called cool school of modern jazz-define cool?

That means doing everything that you like to do and getting away with it, you dig?

Her traits included a frosted tone with a dash of vinegar; a blithe, airy rhythmic sense that could make almost any band swing; an ultra-hip bebop vocabulary; and a wisecracking insouciance, as though all this were just a lark. O'Day emerged in 1941 as a big-band singer whose tough look and take-charge style established her as a musically savvy leader of men, not a begowned accessory. Thereafter, while creating a historic body of recordings on Verve Records, O'Day became one of the boys in another sense, spending much of the '50s and '60s hooked on heroin. Finally clean by the '70s, she had a stunning renaissance, touring the world each year and releasing dozens of albums; even the TV program 60 Minutes profiled her in 1980.

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