Anita O'Day ' Live In Sweden '63 '

Songs:
Sweet Georgia Brown
Let's Fall In Love
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Fly Me To The Moon
Honeysuckle Rose
On Green Dolphin Street
Tea For Two

Anita O'Day boasts two wonderful concerts from 1963 and 1970 that present the "jazz singer supreme" in impeccable form. O'Day's horn-based approach to singing is in full effect throughout both shows including stand-out renditions in each show of audience favorites "Tea For Two" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" (both reprised from her triumphant appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.) This video is a fitting testimony to one of jazz music's true originals and shows unequivocally why she is ranked in the top tier of vocalists along with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday.

[esslar]

If you do not smile with utter joy listening to this, you are not human!

[florasena]

I had the pleasure of working with her at a show at the Kachina Lodge in Taos, New Mexico in the mid to late 80's. A show produced by John Brown Productions. So many years have passed since then but I can recognize her voice and style when ever I hear it.

[steveflor]

Anita's "Green Dolphin St." just blew me away. Heaven!

[suzinnebarrett]

Anita was a superb song stylist of very much immersed in the jazz aesthetic. Her bubbly personality adds an extra boost to her presentation too. She came up the hard way, but clearly loved what she was doing. LOVE HER!

[larskristiansen]

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Anita O’Day. The all-time top-3 jazz-singers.

[tooterable]

Never forgot a lyric. Sings like a horn pl;ayer! Always loved her approach.

[frenchycapalini]

Wow! Best of the best, right here! When she laid it down it stayed down!
That's her long time collaborator John Poole on Drums.

[vvblues]

She leads that band with an iron fist. Girl singers can learn a lot from her. Lead your band!

[christopherlyons]

She met Charlie Parker, and played with him in a club, not too long before his death--they were both hooked on heroin. But all they wanted to talk was music. He paid her a compliment she treasured ever after. Told her they came from the same branch of the tree when it came to time. She said that meant her time was from the fourth dimension.

See, it's correct to say she's one of the three greatest female jazz vocalists. Maybe the three greatest, period. And there are areas where Billie and Ella can't be rivaled, let alone equaled.

But Billie and Ella, great as they were--remained of the swing era, even after that was over. They never went on to bop. She did. A lot of truly great jazz musicans never made that transition. She did. She was the modernist of that trio. You can hear it in this set she does. The way her timing is impossible to follow, predict. She's in that fourth dimension, beyond human ken. She scats just as eloquently as Ella. She can bend a note just as well as Billie. But the way she combines it all--that's unique to her. And that's probably why she's never had the same status as the other two. Because the squares can never keep up with her. To this very day. ;)

[jamescampoccio]

She liked music and it sure liked her back.

[timlewisjazz]

as a pianist i say that piano player is a real trouper following anita

[vvblues]

Ladies take note. That's how you lead a band.

[tooterable]

Has anyone checked the faulty audio on this clip, particularly the first 3 minutes and the last s. SILENCE!!!??

[rcatubeitalia]

Un esempio di registrazione monoaurale Tv-Live d'eccellenza, del 1963

[dorothypoole]

i wrote her biography My Heart Belongs to Daddy on Amazon.

[rwrushing]

Hey LOVE Anita but what's going on with the sound on this post? Is it just me? First 20 minutes are silent.

[mortenfriis]

Sound is on from 3 min into the show..

[square]

there's a 3 minute chuck, the first song, with no sound.

[janiceoliver]

...Question for anyone techy..? what mike is Ms. O' Day using here ..?

[dandyhiphop]

Love me some Anita....What rhythm...Her dialogue with the other instruments....She looks happy (high?) although I think here she was in one of the worst heroine periods of her life ..but to hell with it..Trane played the best shit when he was high