ANITA O'DAY (Good times with a great hat) Jazz History #42
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Singer Anita O’Day titled her autobiography High Times Hard Times for good reason-she lived through both. She was a unique singer who sounds like no other (although Veronica Swift is channeling her these days). Starting her career in the swing era, and despite addiction that claimed the lives of many jazz musicians, she performed up to the age of 87. If you’ve never seen her performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this clip’s for you.
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@chasesanborn ...No Anita O'Day, no June Christy, no Chris Connor, PERIOD!!!
Her timing is impeccable!! Watch her hand gestures as she grooves...she is on it!!!
No question she was on it and in it!
I saw her perform with the Buddy Rich Ghost Band in late 1987 at "The Blue Note", NYC.
The band was great and so was Anita.
Met her backstage with my little sister, she said good things, and looked healthy too.
I bet that was a great show.
I had the exquisite experience of seeing Anita at Ronnie Scott's in Londons soho back in the early 80s and being blown away by her unique style.
Definitely an unmistakeable stylist.
That Newport Jazz performance is simply mesmerizing.
She was high as a kite too
I had the good fortune to see Anita perform at the Backlot night club in West Hollywood back in either 1978 or 1979. She was awesome. The Backlot was part of the Studio One disco.
She has come up frequently recently on my music streaming, and I'm repeatedly struck by how masterful she sounds.
She outlived all the other greats. RIP to the Jezabel of Jazz
Not all of them, but many for sure.
No Anita O'Day, no June Christy, no Chris Connor, PERIOD!!! I love all three of them!!!
Your good taste is showing.
Amazing
Glad you think so!
@@chasesanborn You have to love her , she makes herself so venerable taking the music places its never been before. Bravo Anita!!!!!
Incredible clip with Roy Eldridge. Where did you find this?
All the clips in this series were found on TH-cam. I don't own the rights to them so none of the videos can be monetized, and an occasional one can't be shown at all.
The 1958 Hipsters are the Hipsters in my book.
Everything else is fakey all to Hell.
'twas a consequential decade.
Odd audience shots at the NJF.
Yes indeed.
O’Day was a bastardized Irish way of saying “dough” or money. Anita chose this for her last name because she needed the Jack! I met her at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago when I was 15. She was not impressed when I started to recite the liner notes on the Gene Krupa retrospective two album set that came out in 1971!
I guess she could have chosen 'jack', for that matter. :)
Who do you insist on showing that horrible uncomplimentary picture of Anita when she was very very old?
I don't feel the same way about that photo. Her face tells a thousand stories.
Omg! Dorothy Poole! John Poole & Anita O’Day - one of the great jazz teams. Hope someone makes a movie one day on their friendship & musical collaboration!
They say H ruins the voice.I dunno about that.
I expect she would have had some things to say about that. Life is a crap shoot at best--best to improve rather than diminish one's odds.
@@chasesanborn No doubt she woulld.I agree its a risky pastime heroin .I recall a British actor his name I cannot, used Codiene to lower his voice ! .I myself couldnt abide the constipation when I took it for a back injury.
Roy and Anita w/ Krupa. How come it's all gone.. Today, Multitrack autotune, ah forget it..... all humanity it's done.
I'm not quite as fatalistic about the state of music today, but I am as nostalgic for the music of the past.
The Queen of Time. The most accomplished beat-mistress ever recorded, and I'll fight you over Peggy Lee 🤣🤣
No fight necessary! :)
Peggy Lee held her beats. Anita took everything and stretched it out -- and scatted like a horn man!
Thanks for this one. She is in my Top Five.
I saw the film when i was 13 in the theater. I was already starting to play, and this film and especially Anita just pushed me all the forward into the Jazz World. I never get tired of seeing this. Thanks Chase!
I feel the same way.
She was remarkable artist, she did not possess the powerful voices Like Ella, Dinah or Sarah Vaughan, but her breath control was beyond amazing, and her phrasing was incredible and perfect. Her so unique interpretations of sweet Georgia Brown and tea for two!! Is beyond of this World.
She was a unique voice, to be sure. Interesting that the video about her has gotten more comments than any other featuring a vocalist.
@@chasesanborn She lived in my house three years. I wrote her complete biography.
@@dorothypoole8908 she lived in ur house for years? Are u related to John Poole or is there some other coincidence in names?
@PericlesEmmanuel ...Anita O'Day is in the same conversation as the First Lady of Song and the Divine One. Anita O'Day is definitely on my top ten jazz/pop vocalists list.
That is because she had a tonsil operation when she was a kid and it messed up her voice so she can not hold real long notes. So she made her own style. Timing, and phrasing.
Thank you for honoring Anita the best female jazz singer ever a beautiful forever. Your taste and knowledge is top level
I am a huge fan, although evidently that was not obvious to at least one person in the comments. Glad you perceived it that way.
You and I know the truth Newport jazz festival with Anita swinging is in my heart forever
I saw her in the concert film of 58' Newport! bout 40 years ago, Totally blown away!! Her singing ? You are done baby 🍼! Her hat finished me off! 😳😌👋❤️
That hat is a marker in jazz history.
THE BEAUTY incarnated, impeccable style. She could have won Miss America, chosen otw. (Or the chief stewardess 4 a major carrier...). Good 4 us she didn t. Her zenith lp is from 1 year before this appearance - " Anita Sings 4 Oscar " - originally released on odd, cheap record-club type of lbl which didn t even bother to print a proper color sleeve cover, came out w an flyer-insert and plain blue carton sleeve. I paid 4 a M copy $81 in an 1990s auction for it, to Jeff Barr, who was then running probably #1,2 or 3 jazz collectors mail-order biz from Rancho Mirage; that was before the web took over and the dealer never meddled w it ; instead dropped under the radar, 2 bad - nth comes up in 2023. Greetings if reads this. The said lp was later rereleased on Verve w proper cover and titled "Sings The Most" (IMMSMC). Nevuhhh saw her live ...🇫🇮
Seems like we are hitting some of your faves!
@@chasesanborn talk about it ...Glo Lynne & Lorez next, then Dakota & Della Reese - the big belters w bigger brass. LaVern Baker could be optional though R&B - ntm BIG MAYBELLE : "This Bitter Earth" on Rojac - take a heed of a listen, fairly obscure, junkie also as was Anita 4 2 long ...
Queen O'Day lives on.
Watch the above clip.
Great job.
Thanks for that!
Anita swings SO hard!
She sure does.
Wow!... embarrassingly, I have never really heard of her before and I thought I had heard of all of the great female jazz singers. I had assumed incorrectly that they were all black females.
I'm happy to make the introduction!
shame on me, but I did not know her... thank you for bringing this to my attention, I enjoyed everything of it, what a great singer :)
There is no shame in discovery! Check out Veronica Swift who combines a love of Anita O'Day with an ultra-high level of vocal virtuosity.
I seem to remember reading that the shots of the audience in Jazz on a Summer's Day are not synchronized with the performances, so I'm not sure we can judge the audience's reaction to a particular performer just from watching the film.
That is true, but the faces are fun to watch nevertheless. And I expect the depiction of their reaction during the course of this performance is pretty accurate.
Some of the audio is. You can see people singing along in one performance.
In the late 70’s I was working with a Vegas lounge act at the Casbah lounge in the Sahara Hotel when Jack Eglash, the entertainment coordinator brought her into the lounge. It was a gas working back to back with her. I was a frustrated jazzer and it was evident because I was playing rock on a Gibson L5. I had a crush on her ever since the Newport Festival.
Great story! Thanks for sharing!
lol..she was high asf at that jazz festival gig
She later acknowledged that was likely true.
I don’t understand what the people at the 1958 jazz fest were looking for. It seems they were mildly entertained but they seemed so bored at the same time.
The audience shots seem not to sync with the music. It's possible the bored expressions were occurring at a time when no action was happening on stage. They are fun to watch regardless.
Wild
She awesome .
She was.