‘Swingin’ ’ Big-Band Revue, Featuring Singer Anita O’Day, Sets Three Dates

Singer Anita O’Day, with two years of near-fatal illness behind her, resumes her career with three Southland appearances as one of the stars of “Swingin’ With the Big Band,” an all-star revue playing Thursday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza; Feb. 27 at the Palm Springs High School Auditorium; and Feb. 28 at the Escondido Performing Arts Center.

The revue also features Les Brown’s Band of Renown, conducted by Les Brown Jr., Peter Marshall, Gloria Loring and the New York Ink Spots. O’Day will perform songs she first sang with the bands of Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton in the 1940s. O’Day has just recorded a new version of the Billie Holiday classic “God Bless the Child,” accompanied by Sade’s band Sweetback, for release this spring by Sony, which will also be reissuing her original Krupa recordings. By June, when she is to headline the JVC Jazz Festival at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, the 79-year-old singer’s entire body of work is to be reissued on CDs.

For tickets for the performance in Thousand Oaks: (805) 449-ARTS. Tickets to all three shows are available through Ticketmaster: (213) 480-3232.