1 day ago when you are reading thid do not stop or something bad will happen! (sorry about this) this girl's name is summer she is 15 years old and has blonde hair, many scars, and she has no ear. She is dead. If you don't copy this to more than 5 videos, she will appair one dark quiet night when you are not expecting it beside your bed with a knife and going to kill you. This is no joke. If you send this on 5 more videos something good will happen to you......sorry i dnt wanna die xP
On her perfect song, not even Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Crosby, Torme, Lee, Stafford, I don't care who you name, she did the impossible, note for note, I never heard it done before, and I've heard them all.
I am 77, today is June 23rd, 2011. I wish that I could recall the perfect song from that day, shoot me, but, I can't. it was about 8 years ago.
I have to get in on this. Her picture here made the cover of Time, I believe, it was so great. I have the whole concert on CD, on tape, and I got the documentary from Netflix, and watched that.
Someone said that there were no blacks there. Big mistake. Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, I think, and more.
Chico Hamilton played the coolest song in the evening that will knock you out.
I heard her sing once, and the song was, note for note, 100 percent perfect. Impossible, but, done
It seems like there's not one single black nor in the audience nor on stage... i guess there's some black musicians but the producers didn't want that to be seen i guess... They didn't tell me in school that Jazz were white music... I guess they were wrong (ironic)
After some light research on this film, it is well-known that many of the crowd/reaction shots are absolutely out of context (in terms of continuity), so the 'apathy' may only be perceived. As said by others here, ANYONE into Jazz at this filming was WAY ahead of the curve, and very avante-garde. Truly hip. And way-gone COOL, Daddio. Seriously, if I saw anyone today who dressed as cool as any one of the people shown in the clip, I'd instantly strike up a convo
l was in love with Anita O'Day since the Newport J F. Now, she's dead and l'm just too damned old to be attracted to anyone else. l still have my slightly threadbare tape of Jazz On A Summers Day though...Ah..those memories!
Remember, cats and kittens, that "cutaway" shots of the audience are referred to as "B" roll, and often get shot throughout the day and edited in. To my eye, there is little indication that the film cameras occasionally shooting into the crowd were synched with the onstage cameras.
The audience doesn't suck. They're diggin the tunes but just enjoying a "summer day" too. Let;'t put it this way, anyone who made the committment to check out hip jazz in the 50's was cool from the get go. Also, given the context of the times, it wasn't as easy to be into cool stuff when much of society was more homogenized. We take that for granted today.
No dancers, no gimmicks, no elaborate stage setting . . . just plain TALENT!!!! Today's so-called poor excuse of "singers" couldn't touch the hem of this woman's gown . . .
Anita is now, rightfully, ranked with the all time great female jazz singers, and probably the greatest Be-Bop vocalist ever. Fitzgerald, Holiday, Vaughn and the great Anita.
She seems a little uncertain of her steps when she climbs the stairs and gets on the stage in teh first seconds of this video. But then she starts to sing. Oh my, oh my,
pure artistry ! Totally unaware of the camera , high as a kite (she told people later) but SO deep into the music. my favourite vid of my favourite female jazz vocalist.
@toughtenor strange you would comment on Anita coming up the steps. I watched a documentary on Anita last night (the Bio Channel) and Anita commented that, upon walking up the steps, she stepped into a puddle of mud, and she was trying to take off the mud on the steps just prior to walking out on stage . . . .
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Because jazz is boring. My wife and I (and our two kids Madison and Skyler) listen to Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears on the way to the kids' soccer practice. We drive a big SUV, with a Starbucks in one hand and a cell phone in the other.
the uvula is not actually responsible for vibrato, the vocal cords are, however the loss of the uvula can lead to changes in airflow, affecting pronunciation of certain sounds, such as b's sounding like w's, as in sweet georgia wrown
Most outdoor concerts have seemingly apathetic crowds because the audience isn't in the secure darkness of the typical ,indoor,dark venue that allows anonymus,unabashed,expressions of emotion.
@trvlr1961 I'm STILL looking for the studio version. I overheard it once while in Panera Bread, and can still remember the whole thing. Anita O'Day did superbly.
drummer78, I think she was more in control of her habit than others. In a book about Billie Holiday, Anita was noted saying that not only was she in awe of Billie's singing - she was also in awe of her heroin usage. Though not a big fan of Anita's, I think that this is one hell of a performance. Voice and stage presence seem in the least bit, contrived!
She is the best jazz singer/song stylist ever, in my opinion. Watch the documentary on her, it is brilliant, and she speaks candidly about her life and career. She admits to being high on heroin that day at Newport...
Extraordinary. Superb singing by a true jazz musician, and a lot more gorgeous than Oscar or Louis or those other greats. Fabulously visual, too. Anita (who was high) bought the dress the day before, and the hat at the same shop as an afterthought. Listen. Look.
And this might sound like a weird request but I've totally fallen in love with this woman's voice. Her work is AMAZING. However Anita is really my first taste of real jazz and I would love to hear more. Any recommendations that I should take a listen to? Thanks. XD
If you like ODay, and jazz of that era, you might also like: Billie Holliday (a big influence on ODay), Ella Fitzgerald (particularly her Songbooks of the great American composers), Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, Dave Grusin, Dave Brubek, Pete Jolly, Antonio Carlos Jobim..newer artists in the same vein: Tom Lellis, Mia Nicholson, Dianne Reeves, Jim Tomlinson, Lea DeLaria..There are many others I could name, but these are some of my favorite jazz artists...
Oh yeah, don't forget the great instrumentalists: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker....all giants of an earlier era and all contemporaries of O'Day.
Absolutely Priceless! I'd heard Anita before, but never seen any films or videos of her. And how about the Judy Garland look-alike in the audience? Thanks for posting!
This is IT! The absolute best. Just gives me chills. I will never get blase about her performance. What a treasure. Reading GuitarMama1963, I feel the same. It really does hit you in the Sweet Spot! When she swings, you know it just FLOORS me!! When you hear and feel how she uses her voice-who compares?
I have watched this clip a hundred times & more, I can't get enough of her! Her voice hits me in my sweet spot every time I watch her in this clip. The way she sings Sweet Georgia Brown is ABSOLUTELY, DROP DEAD SEXY! It knocks me out! WOW! SHE HAD IT!
I just wish I could have been there in person to see her perform and more I wish I could of meet her.
Anita was the queen of rhythm! 3 different time signatures and paces; Show me another singer who can do it as good as this. It'll never happen. RIP Anita, girl you rocked!
There were 5 cameras on this festival- this is all part of Jazz on a Summers Day by Bert Stein- awesome jazz vid! I'd never heard much of Antia b4 seeing her on this- beautiful!
Assuming that there was one cameraman the shots of the audience were not made at the same time as O'Day's performance. Note that the footage of O'Day was done from below the stage while the footage of the audience was taken from the stage, possibly while they were waiting between acts, and probably edited in.
I mean isn't shitty, I think it is taken in early fifties and the audience is a beatnik-oriented pack, and beatniks must be cool, offish from the performance.
Of course I find A.o'D super, stilish and if I was there I'd tried to hug and kiss her so the police should be forced to take me off with force...(sorry for possible past/simple past/conditional mistakes).
Coltrane's best work came from when he was clean i. e. Giant Steps and Kind Of Blue on including, but not limited to, A Love Supreme. That's a load of bullshit. Lee Morgan would've been fucking amazing no matter what.
If it were the 1850s, you'd be right in expressing shock at the existence of film, much less color film. By 1958, however, color film stock had been in existence for over sixty years.
Anyhow... if not for that Fresh Air interview in 2006, I'd have never run across this amazing vocalist.
Porque esses caras filavam tanto esse público??? Adoro ver Anita cantando, e os panacas ficam horas gravando esse público de Newport que parece mais´público de jogo de tênis ou golf..
Único primor aí é a nossa Anita...(pode pensar nesse filme sem a presença de Anita ?) O conceito de Stern pode ser ótimo (e eu detesto a maioria das fotos badaladas que ele faz), mas essa idéia funcionaria bem mesmo se ele fosse um Antonioni ou algo realmente artístico do gênero (querendo bancar o Antonioni sem ser o próprio..), mas não o modo como esse público foi filmado, puro tédio..
O filme contem Luis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson entre outros. Anita não é a unica. Acho que voce nunca viu o filme, entao nem vou continuar argumentando.
Nunca vi o filme inteiro, é verdade. E de Stern só conhecia as fotos propriamente ditas, nem sou um expert em Bert stern e nem em Newport..então só foi uma opinião, ou melhor, uma sensação enquanto público médio e não crítico: a sensação muito clara de que o vídeo se perde no público, enquanto o que quero ver são as caras e bocas da Anita, só isso! Tipo: Bert, please, volta a câmara prá Anita, deixa esse pessoal prá lá! rs
Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.
I wouldnt care if I heard this a thousand times, my jaw would STILL drop. No wonder she was one of Frank Sintra's all time faves. WOW thats all you can say.
Why does every female jazz singer video have a bunch of nonsense posts about Amy Winehouse. We're not even talking about the same genre. Amy does her thing, and Anita and Sarah and Peggy all did their own. The music speaks for itself, ya bunch of tabloid readin ninnies.
I read in a book that exposed me to Anita that she admitted years later that she was higher than a kite when she was doing this perforamance! No matter, she has real talent and would love to meet her in person and discuss her career!!
i ment tosay the anita in whine house,not a lot but it is there i do not like whinehoue.note the spelling, and i am sick of her being called a jazz diva
2 years before i was born, and 30 years before women decided to disgrace their elegance with lo rise jeans and thongs sticking out of their behinds, this lady exuded more sexuality that all the Madonnas and Beyonces combined. Take careful note ladies, and learn
Anita has just got it....Blimey only a couple of yrs old when this was performed,,,Know that she was supposedly on a big high when she did this....but who can fault this?.....Well there's going to be someone!!...Any one who can is just so pickey....So choosy...as to defy belief!!..So there you go....Don't know you...Never will....Steve....xx
I love Anita. My grandfather played with her in Gene Krupa's band. Anita reported that she was "high on heroin" during this performance, and yet what an amazing, amazing performance.
Lady Anita owns the whole place, never been better.
jansifyful 3 days ago
someone had the foresight to record this gem...and the audience. Archival masterpiece.
travlynn08 1 week ago
When Verve Records started, they could have chosen Fitzgerald or Vaughn to do their first recording.
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1 day ago when you are reading thid do not stop or something bad will happen! (sorry about this) this girl's name is summer she is 15 years old and has blonde hair, many scars, and she has no ear. She is dead. If you don't copy this to more than 5 videos, she will appair one dark quiet night when you are not expecting it beside your bed with a knife and going to kill you. This is no joke. If you send this on 5 more videos something good will happen to you......sorry i dnt wanna die xP
ihatefatpeople21 3 weeks ago
Pleased to see Anita is still admired these days. If only Amy Winehouse could do this song her way. I am sure she would do it 100% perfect too.
misterjong 1 month ago
@misterjong So true!
rpchambon 1 month ago
just a masterpeace
sina6868 4 months ago
Inspiration! How fantastic that we can be motivated by such a legend.
cafemondo1 5 months ago
Chris Connor in the audience, grooving to her stylistic foremother, at 2:49.
lemontarsier 6 months ago
On her perfect song, not even Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Crosby, Torme, Lee, Stafford, I don't care who you name, she did the impossible, note for note, I never heard it done before, and I've heard them all.
I am 77, today is June 23rd, 2011. I wish that I could recall the perfect song from that day, shoot me, but, I can't. it was about 8 years ago.
petemeis234 7 months ago
I have to get in on this. Her picture here made the cover of Time, I believe, it was so great. I have the whole concert on CD, on tape, and I got the documentary from Netflix, and watched that.
Someone said that there were no blacks there. Big mistake. Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, I think, and more.
Chico Hamilton played the coolest song in the evening that will knock you out.
I heard her sing once, and the song was, note for note, 100 percent perfect. Impossible, but, done
petemeis234 7 months ago
I first saw this video about 20 years ago and 'discovered' Anita O' Day. WOW!
BlueScarfLady 9 months ago
Could this be made better? Absolutetely not! Anita, using her voice as an instrument, seems to love what she is singing. So do I.
jansiful
jansifyful 9 months ago 2
It seems like there's not one single black nor in the audience nor on stage... i guess there's some black musicians but the producers didn't want that to be seen i guess... They didn't tell me in school that Jazz were white music... I guess they were wrong (ironic)
Melowoman 9 months ago
@Melowoman dont be such a total complete utter tit, melowoman (live up to your name)
MrMikenotts01 3 months ago
OH MY DO I LOVE THIS
lcnmezzetta 10 months ago
I heard the film this is from took months to edit before they released it, and lots of the audience shots are out of sequence with what's on stage.
stuntcat666 10 months ago
women at 3:00. Rhythm?
18hufflepuff 11 months ago
0:46 Nice shot of someone shoving a sandwich in their mouth :0
hamtrak 11 months ago
la lecheeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
parbatric 11 months ago
Jazz First Lady
jafigueroa41 1 year ago
"Let's make the best of it"... yes.
jafigueroa41 1 year ago
Why are these creatures judgeing Ms Oday's synergy?
MrFalconford 1 year ago
Esto es increíble. Qué interpretación !
jafigueroa41 1 year ago
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¡ S O B E R B I A !
jafigueroa41 1 year ago
The best Sweet Georgia Brown..
sanddmann03 1 year ago 6
Fantastic!! I am wondering if Amy Winehouse didn't copy her style. You think?
moseymama 1 year ago
What a rude/weird crowd. My favorite part is the woman eating the hot dog at 0:50. What a classy performance, though!
mfashnick 1 year ago
I think I just fell in love.
After some light research on this film, it is well-known that many of the crowd/reaction shots are absolutely out of context (in terms of continuity), so the 'apathy' may only be perceived. As said by others here, ANYONE into Jazz at this filming was WAY ahead of the curve, and very avante-garde. Truly hip. And way-gone COOL, Daddio. Seriously, if I saw anyone today who dressed as cool as any one of the people shown in the clip, I'd instantly strike up a convo
SchmedleyDoRight 1 year ago 2
l was in love with Anita O'Day since the Newport J F. Now, she's dead and l'm just too damned old to be attracted to anyone else. l still have my slightly threadbare tape of Jazz On A Summers Day though...Ah..those memories!
crankbv1 1 year ago 2
goosebumps
IggyM 1 year ago
Remember, cats and kittens, that "cutaway" shots of the audience are referred to as "B" roll, and often get shot throughout the day and edited in. To my eye, there is little indication that the film cameras occasionally shooting into the crowd were synched with the onstage cameras.
drvinnievegas 1 year ago
The audience doesn't suck. They're diggin the tunes but just enjoying a "summer day" too. Let;'t put it this way, anyone who made the committment to check out hip jazz in the 50's was cool from the get go. Also, given the context of the times, it wasn't as easy to be into cool stuff when much of society was more homogenized. We take that for granted today.
drummer78 1 year ago 3
This is a Real woman!!!!!
ketamina87 1 year ago
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Omg, Britney Spears are better, grow up people!
gabbis 1 year ago
If you look up "cool" in the dictionary you see Anita's photo. Awesome awesome awesome.
splitenzfreak1980 1 year ago
I saw the Doc about her and fell in love with this amazing woman!!!
sugarshanenthefamily 1 year ago 2
Just saw the documentary about Anita on the Documentary Channel. I was mesmerized by her and her amazing talent!
hamtrak 1 year ago
What a classy, talented, Beautiful lady !!
artoffify 1 year ago 2
More Anita gold from Newport Jazz Festival, 1958 - Sweet Georgia Brown - from the superlative documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day!
1953jazzman 1 year ago
Deliciosa !!!
Athreius 1 year ago
It was 1958. Most people were zombies. Only a very few of us were super cool. We were the kids of America!
SyvetheShairks 1 year ago 2
that chick is cooler than the other side of the pillow
btinsley1 1 year ago 6
@btinsley1 lol - couldn't have put it better !
echo680 1 year ago
No dancers, no gimmicks, no elaborate stage setting . . . just plain TALENT!!!! Today's so-called poor excuse of "singers" couldn't touch the hem of this woman's gown . . .
paul51 1 year ago
Anita is now, rightfully, ranked with the all time great female jazz singers, and probably the greatest Be-Bop vocalist ever. Fitzgerald, Holiday, Vaughn and the great Anita.
jimfocus69 1 year ago 2
love that drum.. love that lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sanddmann03 1 year ago
Wow 1958 color video. And what a cool lady. I love it!
NakedSuit 1 year ago
She seems a little uncertain of her steps when she climbs the stairs and gets on the stage in teh first seconds of this video. But then she starts to sing. Oh my, oh my,
pure artistry ! Totally unaware of the camera , high as a kite (she told people later) but SO deep into the music. my favourite vid of my favourite female jazz vocalist.
toughtenor 1 year ago
@toughtenor: Might be the heels, or it might be the smack. She has subsequently told interviewers that she was as high as a kite that day.
aarfeld 1 year ago
@aarfeld I wish getting high as a kite would make my voice sound like that.
doublemo7 1 year ago
@doublemo7: Well, like a lot of great Jazz artists, Anita was a great talent despite her bad habits--not because of them.
aarfeld 1 year ago
@aarfeld Oh definitely, I was just making a joke :)
doublemo7 1 year ago
@toughtenor strange you would comment on Anita coming up the steps. I watched a documentary on Anita last night (the Bio Channel) and Anita commented that, upon walking up the steps, she stepped into a puddle of mud, and she was trying to take off the mud on the steps just prior to walking out on stage . . . .
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Ah, one of the truly great Bopin' singers. Love Anita!
P.S: I think I may have caught a glimpse of Ahmet Ertogen sitting down front in the audience.
aarfeld 1 year ago
Ah, one of the truly great Bopin' singers. Love Anita!
P.S: I think I may have caught a glimpse of Ahmet Ertogen sitting down front in the audience.
aarfeld 1 year ago 2
Anita O' Day
Born October 18, 1919
Died November 23, 2006
Age 87
MurkyMike 1 year ago
Sublime. One of my most favorite vocal prefomances ever. Hands down.
chas63 1 year ago 4
wonderful! i'm gonna cover that version of Anita ;-)
LOJAY2007 1 year ago
@chas63 agree entirely
echo680 1 year ago
I love this ladys singing.
scatmando 1 year ago
Looking good and sounding even better. I like how she changed the beat of the song..
miketlow 1 year ago
If I had a time machine I'd set the dial for exactly this moment! BRAVO!
phlashba 1 year ago
GREAT
Erickdearmas 1 year ago
Only female jazz vocalist who was as bad ass as niggaz like T Monk, Elvin Jones, Grant Green.
clintisfake 1 year ago
Real life video of a 1958 audience of people who are all dead 52 years later. O'day was a class preformer no matter what was going on.
phillippatterson1 1 year ago
Newport still did not know what to think of the jazz fest.
campushero 1 year ago
why does the audience not even look at her?
bored middle class a..holes.
alpiarts 2 years ago
@alpiarts
These folks are loaded and chillin'
GrinchandMax 1 year ago 3
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Because jazz is boring. My wife and I (and our two kids Madison and Skyler) listen to Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears on the way to the kids' soccer practice. We drive a big SUV, with a Starbucks in one hand and a cell phone in the other.
DominicMetal1979 1 year ago
@DominicMetal1979 And things like this are exactly what is wrong with the world.
More jazz!
theflyingjbird 1 year ago
No uvula = no vibrato = still sounds amazing
RYDELLSTAR 2 years ago
Urban myth. Vibrato comes from vocal cords, not uvula. O'Day was a singer, not a doctor.
DominicMetal1979 1 year ago
@RYDELLSTAR
the uvula is not actually responsible for vibrato, the vocal cords are, however the loss of the uvula can lead to changes in airflow, affecting pronunciation of certain sounds, such as b's sounding like w's, as in sweet georgia wrown
dakotalovergirl 1 year ago
That was because of her teeth --- not her uvula.
phlashba 1 year ago
your wiki-foo is stronger than mine. i read, and wrote later, making a muck of it.
dakotalovergirl 1 year ago
very queer audience .................ha,ha,ha.
TTTRRRAAA3 2 years ago
i cant believe that she has no uvula
chromehounds2 2 years ago
Unbelievable, her voice control is superb. Obviously a well practiced number
jes52364 2 years ago
INCREIBLE!, su mejor momento como cantante... minuto 3:20 quiebre de ritmo muy acertado, no me canso de escucharlo
lualmar1962 2 years ago
Catatonic except for the bobble headed blonde at 3:00 - that's my kind of gal.
trydreamin 2 years ago
Most outdoor concerts have seemingly apathetic crowds because the audience isn't in the secure darkness of the typical ,indoor,dark venue that allows anonymus,unabashed,expressions of emotion.
snatchhog 2 years ago 13
That tempo jump at 3:20 just kills me every time! So seemingly effortless, and completely flawless.
funstuff2006 2 years ago
Audience looks very apathetic. And catatonic.
7beers 2 years ago
Anita does Georgia Brown the best...soo freakin cool
trvlr1961 2 years ago 20
@trvlr1961 I'm STILL looking for the studio version. I overheard it once while in Panera Bread, and can still remember the whole thing. Anita O'Day did superbly.
theflyingjbird 1 year ago
Check out Tony Soprano at 1:09!
Bopalena 2 years ago
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Jazzafary 2 years ago
She sings a fanastic Tea for Two right after this. (See the Japanese post that has that on youtube ---dogatokosite.)
greenstboy 2 years ago
Great performance, great hat/outfit and all while being high on smack no less.
drummer78 2 years ago 2
drummer78, I think she was more in control of her habit than others. In a book about Billie Holiday, Anita was noted saying that not only was she in awe of Billie's singing - she was also in awe of her heroin usage. Though not a big fan of Anita's, I think that this is one hell of a performance. Voice and stage presence seem in the least bit, contrived!
robdagun 2 years ago
-- My, what big teeth you have!
-- The better to sing you with, my dear.
Gorgeous!
klktrk 2 years ago
this performance is nothing less than brilliant.
2Howl 2 years ago 2
her palate ovula was rempoved
dunobrellao 2 years ago
just thrilling to listen and watch. not too many could sweep you away with their voice but Miss O'Day sure could. Brilliant!!!
kevidw 2 years ago
she is PERFECT here. I LOVE the outfit !
nandesneto 2 years ago
The lady, The Jezebel of Jazz was the greatest! G.d bless & keep:-)
Onazol17 2 years ago
She is the best jazz singer/song stylist ever, in my opinion. Watch the documentary on her, it is brilliant, and she speaks candidly about her life and career. She admits to being high on heroin that day at Newport...
sultanofswing1000 2 years ago
Extraordinary. Superb singing by a true jazz musician, and a lot more gorgeous than Oscar or Louis or those other greats. Fabulously visual, too. Anita (who was high) bought the dress the day before, and the hat at the same shop as an afterthought. Listen. Look.
jayfahey 2 years ago
Wow, how do you know all that? :D
And this might sound like a weird request but I've totally fallen in love with this woman's voice. Her work is AMAZING. However Anita is really my first taste of real jazz and I would love to hear more. Any recommendations that I should take a listen to? Thanks. XD
gabbyd6277 2 years ago
If you like ODay, and jazz of that era, you might also like: Billie Holliday (a big influence on ODay), Ella Fitzgerald (particularly her Songbooks of the great American composers), Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, Dave Grusin, Dave Brubek, Pete Jolly, Antonio Carlos Jobim..newer artists in the same vein: Tom Lellis, Mia Nicholson, Dianne Reeves, Jim Tomlinson, Lea DeLaria..There are many others I could name, but these are some of my favorite jazz artists...
mark121959 2 years ago
Oh yeah, don't forget the great instrumentalists: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker....all giants of an earlier era and all contemporaries of O'Day.
mark121959 2 years ago
@mark121959 maybe peggy lee, keely smith, nina simone and lena horne
TheJazzStreet 2 years ago
She's high on heroin here...
telega 2 years ago
I have never heard of this amazing singer till we did reports on jazz artists in a school group I'm in and SHE IS AMAZING! Oh my gosh! Incredible!
Shearmadness39 2 years ago 2
She's totally a rock star. :D
My gosh, she's so incredibly beautiful and her voice is like an angel. I so wish I could have been there. :] The music back then was ACE.
Being born in '91 sucks. D:
gabbyd6277 2 years ago 3
Happy Birthday Anita!
thisidigofyou 2 years ago 3
this clip is unbelievable --what a songstress is ANITA O'DAY --pure bliss to listen and to watch
IDOLODORO 2 years ago 4
ah, the gloves, the hat, the lipstick, the smile! she is a knockout, love it! such stylish years, the audience is too cool!
circulati 2 years ago
She's so great it's ridiculous.
plangentmusic 2 years ago 2
Just 1 year old when this event happened. Thank God for YouTube....Anita at her very best.
mlk2210 2 years ago 2
Absolutely Priceless! I'd heard Anita before, but never seen any films or videos of her. And how about the Judy Garland look-alike in the audience? Thanks for posting!
1jazzsoul 2 years ago
This is IT! The absolute best. Just gives me chills. I will never get blase about her performance. What a treasure. Reading GuitarMama1963, I feel the same. It really does hit you in the Sweet Spot! When she swings, you know it just FLOORS me!! When you hear and feel how she uses her voice-who compares?
7Millersshadow 2 years ago 3
I have watched this clip a hundred times & more, I can't get enough of her! Her voice hits me in my sweet spot every time I watch her in this clip. The way she sings Sweet Georgia Brown is ABSOLUTELY, DROP DEAD SEXY! It knocks me out! WOW! SHE HAD IT!
I just wish I could have been there in person to see her perform and more I wish I could of meet her.
GuitarMama1963 2 years ago 2
The best recording on youtube. It's the only one i can find with the drum intro.
Emannuelle2000 2 years ago 4
It is one of the greatest crimes in film history that the Kind of Blue band wasn't recorded for this film.
MilesTrane21 2 years ago
Anita, the queen of rhythm! Fantastic stuff. RIP honey!
HaFannyHa 2 years ago 2
I don't know of any recorded live performance that better demonstrates the musicality of the singing voice.
O'Day is simply SUBLIME!
johnmcd7 2 years ago 3
Anita was the queen of rhythm! 3 different time signatures and paces; Show me another singer who can do it as good as this. It'll never happen. RIP Anita, girl you rocked!
HaFannyHa 2 years ago
There were 5 cameras on this festival- this is all part of Jazz on a Summers Day by Bert Stein- awesome jazz vid! I'd never heard much of Antia b4 seeing her on this- beautiful!
76andyman 2 years ago
I love this one..she didn't care about the shitty audience. She was singing her cool-ass song ..and admittedly high. ;-)
70isUnwritten 2 years ago
stepped in pool of water before she got on stage. RIP my love!!!!
hep2jive 2 years ago
did the cameraman focus on the shitty audience on purpose? sheesh
laika2012 2 years ago
Assuming that there was one cameraman the shots of the audience were not made at the same time as O'Day's performance. Note that the footage of O'Day was done from below the stage while the footage of the audience was taken from the stage, possibly while they were waiting between acts, and probably edited in.
JazzloverNYC 2 years ago
Yes the camera man said that he wanted the focus of the documentary to be on the crowd's reactions and demeanors duringthe performances
JROB1989 2 years ago
I mean isn't shitty, I think it is taken in early fifties and the audience is a beatnik-oriented pack, and beatniks must be cool, offish from the performance.
Of course I find A.o'D super, stilish and if I was there I'd tried to hug and kiss her so the police should be forced to take me off with force...(sorry for possible past/simple past/conditional mistakes).
xrayqqq 2 years ago
'59
MilesTrane21 2 years ago
Yer, I mistaken it's '58 or '59
xrayqqq 2 years ago
wait, I was wrong. It was definitely '58.
MilesTrane21 2 years ago
audience sucks
steve89z 2 years ago
the audience is a mixture of hipsters and squares, but mostly L7 squares...she was best when she was high, as seen here.
dumbamerica 2 years ago 2
Herion really brings out the soul of musicians, it's terrible but listen to Coltrane and Lee Morgan.
Zombbg4 2 years ago
Coltrane's best work came from when he was clean i. e. Giant Steps and Kind Of Blue on including, but not limited to, A Love Supreme. That's a load of bullshit. Lee Morgan would've been fucking amazing no matter what.
MilesTrane21 2 years ago
c.1958.....cool!!
dirtyedna 2 years ago
Anita O'Day is pretty much my idol.
And I would adore to go to the Newport Jazz festival.
DevotedHelenFan 2 years ago
wow it's already colored!? i thought it was 50s
jensenpo 2 years ago
'59
MilesTrane21 2 years ago
If it were the 1850s, you'd be right in expressing shock at the existence of film, much less color film. By 1958, however, color film stock had been in existence for over sixty years.
Anyhow... if not for that Fresh Air interview in 2006, I'd have never run across this amazing vocalist.
MohanndasChutney 2 years ago
Most uptight audience EVER!
nicmah 2 years ago 5
Whau!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
ViolaconPadrinos 2 years ago
Wonderful, I don't understand how Miss O'Day could have been underrated. RIP Miss O'Day
raininmyst 2 years ago
this is unbelievably fantastic! thanx so much for sharing this!
wamee 2 years ago
Porque esses caras filavam tanto esse público??? Adoro ver Anita cantando, e os panacas ficam horas gravando esse público de Newport que parece mais´público de jogo de tênis ou golf..
Bentland 2 years ago
Não fale uma barbaridade dessas. Esse foi o conceito usado por Bert Stern pra fazer o Jazz on a Summer's Day. O filme é um primor.
nandesneto 2 years ago
Único primor aí é a nossa Anita...(pode pensar nesse filme sem a presença de Anita ?) O conceito de Stern pode ser ótimo (e eu detesto a maioria das fotos badaladas que ele faz), mas essa idéia funcionaria bem mesmo se ele fosse um Antonioni ou algo realmente artístico do gênero (querendo bancar o Antonioni sem ser o próprio..), mas não o modo como esse público foi filmado, puro tédio..
Bentland 2 years ago
O filme contem Luis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson entre outros. Anita não é a unica. Acho que voce nunca viu o filme, entao nem vou continuar argumentando.
nandesneto 2 years ago
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Bentland 2 years ago
Nunca vi o filme inteiro, é verdade. E de Stern só conhecia as fotos propriamente ditas, nem sou um expert em Bert stern e nem em Newport..então só foi uma opinião, ou melhor, uma sensação enquanto público médio e não crítico: a sensação muito clara de que o vídeo se perde no público, enquanto o que quero ver são as caras e bocas da Anita, só isso! Tipo: Bert, please, volta a câmara prá Anita, deixa esse pessoal prá lá! rs
Bentland 2 years ago
Sweet 50's
Zo0oL89 2 years ago
This is a prime example of why Anita will always be my favorite jazz singer.
walterwhippet 2 years ago
Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.
JaiFinesse 2 years ago
Wow!
jmeintn 2 years ago 3
Absolute A1 CLASS.
RICHIEBSQUI 2 years ago
I wouldnt care if I heard this a thousand times, my jaw would STILL drop. No wonder she was one of Frank Sintra's all time faves. WOW thats all you can say.
lonelyboy03 2 years ago
Dig her outfit - on a mission for that hat and gloves, too.
ironfairie 2 years ago 3
Why does every female jazz singer video have a bunch of nonsense posts about Amy Winehouse. We're not even talking about the same genre. Amy does her thing, and Anita and Sarah and Peggy all did their own. The music speaks for itself, ya bunch of tabloid readin ninnies.
beeman100000000000 2 years ago 4
Good observation. I think most female jazz singers channel Billie Holiday including Amy Winehouse.
Winehouse is just hot now.
Rodrickzx 2 years ago
Ahmet Ertegun smokin' a cig at 1:33 on this vid.
flatgone 2 years ago
I think it's shameful anyone dares to compare that trash considered Amy Winehouse to the great Anita O'day.
lechatrouge2 2 years ago 4
Not to mention Anita O'Day was a class act.
Winehouse is anything but.
Winehouse can't hold her drugs and is a mess in public.
O'Day spent years as a heroin addict and you would have never known it from seeing performances like this.
mrdog66 2 years ago 2
I read in a book that exposed me to Anita that she admitted years later that she was higher than a kite when she was doing this perforamance! No matter, she has real talent and would love to meet her in person and discuss her career!!
nikitabijoux 2 years ago 2
Yes, I just listened to an interview with Terry Gross where she admitted to being high. She was quite a broad.
kolst8406 2 years ago
Amy Winehouse is no Anita O'Day.
She (Winehouse) could never ever in a million years hold down the Kenton or Krupa vocal chair, period.
As far as singing, Winehouse has some ability but she;s not as talented.
mrdog66 2 years ago 2
I think jazzman means you can hear a bit of Anita in Amy's vocal style but that Amy will never be as good as Anita. I'd tend to agree with that.
BackToTheBlues 2 years ago
thanks you got it inone
01jazzman01 2 years ago
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01jazzman01 2 years ago
You're comparing Amy Winehouse to THE ANITA O'DAY. Wow...wow.
mockingbirdarmada 2 years ago
hahahahaha
i second that.
clearly jazzman you seem to have some sort of time disarrangement.
usually the one who came first is what things tend to sound like more, not vice versa.
auroraeuphoria 2 years ago
no way do i compare whinehouse with anita oday
01jazzman01 2 years ago 2
i ment tosay the anita in whine house,not a lot but it is there i do not like whinehoue.note the spelling, and i am sick of her being called a jazz diva
01jazzman01 2 years ago
Er, hon, your spelling is so bad, that even when you say "note the spelling", it's not quite specific enough.
ijustpostcomments 2 years ago
whinehouse not winehouse
01jazzman01 2 years ago
You clearly have no f*cking idea what you're talking about.
I hope you're joking.
misterobvious 2 years ago
iam pleased you swore at me,amd i will in future read my comment s twice before i send
01jazzman01 2 years ago
She makes me colorblind, a blend of Ella and Billie.
1950jimbei 2 years ago
She said in her autobiography that she was off her face on heroin during this performance. What a woman
setforvol 2 years ago 2
2 years before i was born, and 30 years before women decided to disgrace their elegance with lo rise jeans and thongs sticking out of their behinds, this lady exuded more sexuality that all the Madonnas and Beyonces combined. Take careful note ladies, and learn
iancurtislives1960 2 years ago
Anita has just got it....Blimey only a couple of yrs old when this was performed,,,Know that she was supposedly on a big high when she did this....but who can fault this?.....Well there's going to be someone!!...Any one who can is just so pickey....So choosy...as to defy belief!!..So there you go....Don't know you...Never will....Steve....xx
Notstrongbow 2 years ago
I love Anita. My grandfather played with her in Gene Krupa's band. Anita reported that she was "high on heroin" during this performance, and yet what an amazing, amazing performance.
IndiaSummerxxx 2 years ago