Anita O'Day - Careless Love (2013)

Few female singers matched the hard-swinging and equally hard-living Anita O'Day for sheer exuberance and talent in all areas of jazz vocals. Though three or four outshone her in pure quality of voice, her splendid improvising, wide dynamic tone, and innate sense of rhythm made her the most enjoyable singer of the age. O'Day's first appearances in a big band shattered the traditional image of a demure female vocalist by swinging just as hard as the other musicians on the bandstand, best heard on her vocal trading with Roy Eldridge on the Gene Krupa recording "Let Me Off Uptown." After making her solo debut in the mid-'40s, she incorporated bop modernism into her vocals and recorded over a dozen of the best vocal LPs of the era for Verve during the 1950s and '60s. Though hampered during her peak period by heavy drinking and later, drug addiction, she made a comeback and continued singing into the new millennium.

Tracklist:

1. I Can't Get Started
2. I Fall in Love Too Easily
3. You Turned the Tables On Me
4. I've Got the World On a String
5. We'll Be Together Again
6. Time After Time
7. No Moon At All
8. I Cover the Waterfront
9. Anita's Blues
10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
11. Taking a Chance On Love
12. All Too Soon
13. You Don't Know What Love Is
14. As Long As I Live
15. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
16. My Ship
17. Let's Fall in Love
18. You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me
19. Tenderly
20. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
21. Who Cares
22. I'm Not Supposed to Be Blue
23. Fly Me to the Moon