Anita O’Day, whose sassy renditions of “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Sweet Georgia Brown” and other song standards made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and ‘50s, has died. She was 87.

Keep the Coffee Coming is a collection of eighteen small, medium and big band recordings fronted by Anita O'Day from 1952 to 1955. This is the period just prior to O'Day's climb toward her zenith with ...

Anita O’Day, whose sassy renditions of “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Sweet Georgia Brown” and other song standards made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and ’50s, has died. She was 87.

Anita O’Day, who shot to fame as a singer with drummer Gene Krupa’s swing band in the early 1940s and became one of the most distinctive voices in the history of jazz, died Thursday. She was 87. O’Day ...

This year is the centennial of the birth of Anita O’Day, born Anita Belle Colton, a daring jazz vocalist who developed her own style and created a vast body of innovative vocals while being tagged ...

Anita O’Day, one of the great vocalists in jazz history, passed away Thanksgiving Day in a West Los Angeles convalescent hospital at the age of 87. She left no survivors. Her death from cardiac arrest ...

Anita O’Day, who shot to fame as a singer with drummer Gene Krupa’s swing band in the early 1940s and became one of the most distinctive voices in the history of jazz, died Thursday. She was 87. Ms. O ...

Anita O'Day inspired the so-called cool jazz singers of the 1950s. Music critic Will Friedwald described O'Day as, quote, "always the greatest, the coolest, the hippest and the swingingest (ph)," ...

O'Day first became known in 1941 when she joined Gene Krupa's band. Later, she later sang with Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman and many other small groups. Originally broadcast in 1987. Let's continue our ...

Jazz singer Anita O'Day died of a heart attack in 2006. She had possessed one of the music world's most distinctive voices, the product of a botched childhood tonsillectomy that left her without a ...