Time For Two

Performer: Anita O'Day
Producer: Creed Taylor
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Anita O'Day (vocals); Cal Tjader, Johnnie Rae (vibraphone, drums); Freddy Schreiber (bass). Recorded in Hollywood, California in February 1962. Originally released on Verve (8472). Includes liner notes by Don Gold. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is part of Verve's By Request series. Personnel: Anita O'Day (vocals); Robert Corwin , Lonnie Hewitt (piano); Cal Tjader (drums, background vocals). Liner Note Author: Don Gold. Recording information: Hollywood, CA (02/26/1962-02/28/1962). In another experiment, producer Creed Taylor teams O'Day with the alternately Latin and bop-grounded quartet of vibraphonist Cal Tjader -- and he gets some amazing performances from this team. O'Day sounds as if she is delighted with Tjader's polished Afro-Cuban grooves, gliding easily over the rhythms, toying with the tunes, transforming even a tune so locked into its trite time as "Mr. Sandman" into a stimulating excursion. Indeed, O'Day's freewheeling phrasing becomes downright sexy on "That's Your Red Wagon" and Dave Frishberg's delicious parody of a spoiled honeybunch, "Peel Me a Grape." Also, thanks to Taylor's obsession with good engineering and tasteful applications of reverb, O'Day's voice sounds much fuller and more attractive in his productions than on her Norman Granz-produced albums. ~ Richard S. Ginell

A charismatic jazz singer who balanced soul, invention, and excellent technique, Anita O'Day got her first big break in 1941 as the vocalist in Gene Krupa's band (which also featured Roy Eldridge). She recorded several hits with both his ensemble and Stan Kenton's before going solo in '46. Throughout the next six decades she would record great albums with the likes of Cal Tjader and Barney Kessel, but it was during her live performances that her brilliant timing and charming rapport with audiences and fellow musicians really came through. O'Day passed away in November 2006.

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