| Anita O'Day at Mister Kelly's | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Anita O'Day |
| Cover: | anitamister.jpg |
| Released: | 1958 |
| Recorded: | April 27, 1958 |
| Genre: | Vocal jazz |
| Length: | 43:04 |
| Label: | Verve |
| Prev Title: | The Lady is a Tramp |
| Prev Year: | 1957 |
| Next Title: | Cool Heat |
| Next Year: | 1959 |
Anita O'Day at Mister Kelly's is a 1958 live album by Anita O'Day, recorded at Mister Kelly's in Chicago.
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars stating "Caught live with just her piano trio at Chicago's famous now-defunct nightclub, Anita O'Day is in an ebullient mood as she tosses off a series of standards and novelties. Whether this is an accurate snapshot of her live act is open to question; the stage business in between numbers seems rather formal and one doesn't really feel the excitement of a live performance. Yet O'Day is clearly in a creative mood, whether allowing her vulnerability to show in the torchy ballads or reveling in the boppish up-tempo workouts. Her vocal on "Tea for Two" is a virtuoso deconstruction, full of satiric quotes and rhythmic shifts at a warp-speed tempo. Fleet-fingered Joe Masters decorates the fills with standard bop runs on the slightly-out-of-tune house piano.".[1]