A documentary look at the improvised life of Anita O’Day (1919-2006), singer and stylist whose timing, phrasing, interpretations, and unique sound put her among the finest jazz vocalists in history. Interviews with her later in life are interspersed with archival footage of performances and old interviews as well as comments by friends, arrangers, critics, and other musicians. She talks about singing without a uvula (sing eighth notes), jail time for a marijuana arrest, taking and kicking heroin, making money after appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival, a broken arm that almost cost her life, and of living in 4/4 time, one day at a time, smiling…
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