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| Anita O'Day High Times Hard Times Audiobook Exclusively On Audible.Com High Times Hard Times by Anita O'Day with George Eells makes its long-awaited debut, exclusively on Audible.com Poignantly and beautifully narrated by well-known actor Ann Magnuson, you would think it was Anita herself. Praise for High Times Hard Times The New York Times Book Review: "In the tradition of the best, Jazz autobiographies…A fascinating travelogue through the jazz world filled with vivid images of Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Roy Eldridge, and Billie Holiday…Her prose is as hip as her music." San Francisco Chronicle: "A valuable, revealing, and read-at-a-gulp account of a premier American artist, and the punishing winds that shaped her life and her craft." The Chicago Tribune: "A remarkably truthful book." LA Weekly: " This no-holds-barred account of Anita's career ups and downs, drug fables, romantic interludes, and musical tales is a fascinating reading." Detroit News: "There's a pithy edge to Miss O'Day's narrative a certain comical 'give 'em hell' combativeness that shines through the book's many dark moments." Toronto Globe and Mail, Jim Christy: "The record of the early years is like the story of the music itself: rich, exciting, innovative; featuring the primitive beauty of the 20s, when one foot was still in show business; the thirties with hip sophistication and hard swinging for the hard times; the explosive 40s of pre-war big band bashes and post-war bop; and then the 50s, going off in 100 directions with a needle in the arm…It is the best Jazz autobiography I've ever read." write your comments about the article :: © 2023 Jazz News :: home page |