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--=[ Anita Baker ]=--

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2008-09-05 09:53:00 by Lord Blak in Blaks Lair
Anita Baker - Compositions [1990 On Rapture and Giving You the Best That I Got, Anita Baker embraced a blend of technology and "real instruments" -- a definite contrast to the completely high-tech approach of so much '80s and '90s R&B. But on Compositions, producer Michael J. Powell moved even closer to a '70s-like approach to R&B -- recording...
 
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Anita Myles - "R U Willing?" (tbgb review)

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2008-06-16 21:12:00 by Bob Marovich in The Black Gospel Blog
...Anita Myles YA Pro Productions 2007 www.anitamyles.com Singer/songwriter Anita Myles has more than a touch of jazz and RnB in her voice. She brings these musical sensibilities, and COGIC influences (including work with the Edwin Hawkins Youth and Young Adult Mass Choir), to bear on R U Willing? , her debut CD The project, named a finalist...
 
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Filtered Yet Fun :: "Anita, I Gotta Testify " CD Christian Music

2008-08-20 19:21:30 by Editor in Music Forte - Forums
 
...Anita, I Gotta Testify " CD Christian Music Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:40 am (GMT -7 Topic Replies: 0 Anita, I Gotta Testify http://roycehamm.tripod.com/religiousanddevotional/index.html Site Promotes Music forte Membership My Tripod sites have had over 2,000 visitors in Aug Go Platinum - It Pays All the best Music Forte has to offer...
 
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Let me off uptown - Gene Krupa, Anita O'day, Roy Eldridge

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2008-11-01 14:56:00 by Henrik in Swing, jazz and blues - Dance to the music
...Anita O'day , Roy Eldridge . This was also the very first swing music tip I gave on this blog In the middle of the video clip there is a dance sequence, does anyone know who the dancers are Maybe you are as silly as Miss D and I: whenever we hear the song on the dance floor, we act out the banter between Anita and Roy What do you think of...
 
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Interview: Chris Connor (Part 4)

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2008-06-05 08:34:55 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Anita were at odds in the early 1980s JazzWax: How did those two albums with Maynard Ferguson come about Chris Connor: In 1957, I didnt really know Maynard well, except when he was playing trumpet for Stan Kenton. The two albums we recorded late that year were part of an exchange dealone album for Roulette and one for Atlantic. It was a...
 
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Interview: Chris Connor (Part 4)

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2008-06-05 08:34:55 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Anita were at odds in the early 1980s JazzWax: How did those two albums with Maynard Ferguson come about Chris Connor: In 1957, I didnt really know Maynard well, except when he was playing trumpet for Stan Kenton. The two albums we recorded late that year were part of an exchange dealone album for Roulette and one for Atlantic. It was a...
 
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Interview: Russ Garcia (Part 2)

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2008-09-18 08:30:22 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Anita O'Day, Frances Faye, Helen Grayco, Bobby Troup, Herb Jeffries, Julie London, Tony Travis, the Axidentals, Margaret Whiting, Sylvia Mora, Blossom Dearie [pictured], Mel Torme and others In Part 2 of my three-part interview with Russ, the arranger recalls the West Coast trumpeters he worked with, vocalists Anita O'Day and Julie London,...
 
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Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008): Part 2

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2008-04-29 08:19:52 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Anita O'Day (1959). Unlike Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May, recorded four days earlier, Cool Heat: Anita O'Day Sings Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements was more relaxed and jaunty. It's well known that May and O'Day didn't get along, resulting in rough studio exchanges and jagged executions. By contrast, Anita felt completely at ease...
 
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Interview: Bill Holman (Part 4)

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2008-08-01 08:13:59 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Anita O'Day JazzWax: Were there arrangements you had written for Stan Kenton that didn't get into the band's book Bill Holman: I had pretty good luck. Everything seemed to go pretty well. You'd think I would have gotten too confident after a few years of everything going so well. But I didn't. I always had that trepidation when I took on new...
 
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Sunday Wax Bits

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2008-08-17 07:06:49 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
Anita O'Day. Yesterday, my dear friend Helene took me off to see Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer, a documentary that first screened at New York's Tribeca Film Festival last year. The 90-minute film currently is showing at Cinema Village for a limited period, so if you're in New York, go quick. Helene is a fabulous interior designer, so...
 
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