'Jezebel of Jazz' Anita O'Day dies at 87

Friday, November 24, 2006

LOS ANGELES -- Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 87.

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