Trav'lin Light + All The Sad Young Men (2 LPs on 1 CD)
  • Verve V6-8442
    Verve V6-8442
  • Verve V6-2157
    Verve V6-2157

Anita O'Day

Trav'lin Light + All The Sad Young Men (2 LPs on 1 CD)

Fresh Sound Records

Personnel:
Anita O'Day (vcl), Johnny Mandel, Gary McFarland (arr, dir), Jack Sheldon, Herb Pomeroy (tp), Frank Rosolino (tb), Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb), Phil Woods, Joe Maini, Ben Webster, Zoot Sims (saxes), Jimmy Rowles, Hank Jones (p), Buddy Clark (b), Mel Lewis (d)

Reference: FSRCD 673

Bar code: 8427328606738

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The late, great Anita ODay was perhaps the finest of the comparative handful of jazz singers good enough to emerge enhanced from the over-riding influence of Billie Holiday. So, when she made Travlin Light as a tribute to her inspiration, it was doubly appropriate that it was one of ODays most successful albums. The overall mood is one of restraint. On these sides ODay is at her relaxed, unself-conscious best, sure and swinging, with a deftness and grace that few vocalists could match.

At least half of the credit for this goes to arranger-conductor Johnny Mandel, whose charts for the larger ensemble are conceived with taste and intelligence. On All the Sad Young Men, she again demonstrates her ability to reshape songs through individual interpretation, in a take-it-or-leave-it style that left no doubt about the strength of her personality. Although it features such well-worn standards as St. Louis and Do Nothing, the highlights are new songs by young composers.

The man responsible for the striking arrangements was the late Gary McFarland, one of the brightest young composer-arrangers to emerge from the 60s scene. Anita ODays years of experience taught her just about every trick in the vocalists book, and more besides. She was a tough customer and a rough diamond, and though she mellowed and matured as the years passed, she remained unmistakably a diamond among jazz singers.



01. Trav'lin' Light (Mundy-Mercer) 3:32
02. The Moon Looks Down and Laughs (Ruby-Kamar-Silvers) 3:55'
03. Dont Explain (Holiday-Herzog,Jr) 3:09
04. Remember (Irving Berlin) 2:36
05. Some Other Spring (Herzog,Jr-Kitchings) 2:24
06. What a Little Moonlight Can Do (MacGregor) 2:27
07. Miss Brown to You (Whiting-Rainger-Robin) 4:00
08. God Bless the Child (Holiday-Herzog,Jr) 2:06
09. If the Moon Turns Green (Hanighen-Cates) 2:53
10. I Hear Music (Loesser-Lane) 2:13
11. Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg-Hammerstein II) 2:48
12. Crazy He Calls Me (Sigman-Russell) 3:23
13. Boogie Blues (Krupa-Biondi) 3:44
14. You Came a Long Way from St. Louis (Brooks-Russell) 4:12
15. I Want to Sing a Song (Mcfarland-Guryan) 2:42
16. A Woman Alone with the Blues (Robison) 3:17
17. The Ballad of All the Sad Young Men (Wolf-Landesman) 4:23
18. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (Ellington-Russell) 4:06
19. One More Mile (McFarland-Paxton) 2:38
20. Night Bird (Cohn-Malone) 3:55
21. Up State (McFarland) 2:29
22. Señor Blues (Silver) 2:44

Album details

Originl sources:
Tracks #1-12 from the Verve album "Trav'lin' Light" (V6-2157)
Tracks #13-22 from the Verve album "All the Sad Young Men" (V6-8442)

Personnel on "Trav'lin' Light":

Tracks #1,3 & 9-12: Johnny Mandel's Orchestra
John Anderson, Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon, Ray Triscari (tp); Stu Williamson (v-tb), Lew McCreary, Dick Nash, Frank Rosolino (tb); Joe Maini (as, ts); Chuck Gentry (bs); Larry Bunker (vib); Russ Freeman (p); Al Viola (g); Buddy Clark (b); Mel Lewis (d) Johnny Mandel (arr, dir).
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, on January 18, 1961

Tracks #2,4 & 5-7: Barney Kessel Sextet
Don Fagerquist (tp), Ben Webster (ts), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (g), Buddy Clark (b), Mel Lewis (d).
Track #8: Anita O'Day is accompanied by Barney Kessel on guitar.
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, on January 19, 1961

Personnel on "All The Sad Young Men":

Anita O'Day with the Gary McFarland Orchestra
Doc Severinsen, Bernie Glow, Herb Pomeroy (tp); Willie Dennis, Billy Byers (tb); Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb); Walt Levinsky, Phil Woods (as, cl, woodwinds), Jerome Richardson, Zoot Sims (ts, woodwinds); Hank Jones (p); Barry Galbraith (g); George Duvivier (b); Roy Haynes (d). Gary McFarland (arr, dir).
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on October 16, 1961
Anita O'Day vocals overdubbed at Sunset Recorders, Los Angeles, on November-December, 1961

Original recordings supervised by Russell Garcia
Producer: Norman Granz (Verve Records)
This CD release produced by Jordi Pujol

Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas S.L.
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