Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Anita O’Day
The world’s most inventive jazz singer?
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Anita O’Day, incredible and unique jazz vocalist, was born with the surname Colton. But she changed it to a homophone of “dough,” meaning money, in pig Latin.
Here she’s jamming with her long time colleague drummer John Poole for a 13-song set. The year: 1986.
O’Day lived out the truism that age can all be in your head. She released her final album, “Indestructible!,” at 86, only months before her death.
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