Anita O'Day 1919-2006
"When you haven't got that much voice, you have to use all the cracks and crevices and the black and the white keys."
I was seven or eight when I first heard jazz and recognized it as something different. Given that I grew up in Cleveland, it was not difficult to discover. There were a number of jazz clubs that attracted the leading performers in that medium and, while I was too young to attend any of their performances [I didn't start illegally sneaking into clubs u…