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| Dates |
From August 25, 2007 5:30 PM
Through August 26, 2007 5:15 PM |
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The Ritz Theater
345 13th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN |
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| Contact |
gretchen williams
gretchen@gw-events.com
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| Description |
(Ian McCrudden, Robbie Cavolina, 2007, USA, 90 min)
Anita ODay: The Life of a Jazz Singer, a zippy portrait of the high-spirited diva, finished mere weeks before her death in 2006, is a masterpiece of the medium. The documentary relates her extraordinary life story as a musician with no softened edges and plenty of extended musical passages. Anita ODay survived alcoholism, rape, numerous abortions, a 20 year heroin addiction and jail time to become a true jazz icon. A swing era vocalist who wanted nothing more than to spend her life singing, ODays career spanned seven decades and 82 albums.
With rare and never before seen vintage performances and includes interviews from vocalists Annie Ross and Margaret Whiting, Jazz Impresario George Wein, award winning arrangers Bill Holman, Johnny Mandel, Russel Garcia & Buddy Bregman, writer/actor producer John Cameron Mitchell, Joe Franklin and friends from different times in Anitas life. This fast paced trip with Anita integrates jazz album design and the graphic qualities of the 40s 50s and 60s, including origanal ads, reviews, and numerous never before seen images, to present a definitive portrait of this extraordinary jazz legend. |
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