Back in 1956 I was a young man digging jazz. Over the rock over played chart singles. Heard Anita oday on verve with Gene Krupa on a reunion record. What I heard was a female jazz singer who could emulate what a jazz trumpet could do. She could belt em out. She could do the soft charts. She could scat. She could do it all. The legend Anita lady will always be remembered
@mattmammone23387 жыл бұрын
Hah its great to hear others, I am just over 25 and I grew up listening with my Grandma and my Dad was always playing a guitar and is the type for example, able to pick up a flute and play a melody and nice sound in an evening. My Grandmother made sure I was gonna be musically inclined and made sure I was praised for every new response till I was given the proper training :) I never knew it was serious and learning till much later. and kept about 85 albums and everyone was in there, just good music, variety like Gene Krupa and Glenn Miller, Charlie Parker Dinah Washington, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald on Duke Ellington cuts, and it was anything my grandma liked, she had jazz rock blues pop and so I learned the distinctive sound like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen.. and liked it all and now I am reconnecting with the originals I have found and its heavenly.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@mattmammone2338 Wowza! That is an impressive record collection!
@petershaw806 жыл бұрын
She's one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. In her day she could out-swing almost everyone. She's up there with Fitz, Sassie and Lady Day. And what a life she had. A truly remarkable lady. Emphasise Lady.
@direfranchement6 жыл бұрын
She was good, but she'll was never in the same league as Ella, Sarah or Billie. Sorry.
@doitnowvideosyeah58413 жыл бұрын
@@direfranchement Sorry but she was totally up there with Ella, Sara etc. Her performance on ',Jazz on a summer afternoon' (Newport jazz fest) doung Tea for Two is as good as anything Ella ever did
@direfranchement3 жыл бұрын
@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 She isn't. Fine sense of swing, but a VERY limited voice. June Christy was better if you're into that type of singing.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@direfranchement Ultimately, this is subjective. I'm not a jazz expert, I just enjoy it, and know what I like. And, I really dig all the ladies mentioned, including Anita. If I'm asked for my personal favorite, I'd say Billie Holiday, but they're all wonderful.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 Anita really did shine at that festival. Great show! She was easy on the eyes, too.
@sergiomoreira39336 жыл бұрын
I love Anita O Day.
@freeweight54372 жыл бұрын
She was born in October 1919 so she’s 78 or 79 in this interview. She died in 2006. She was smoking and drinking in December 1987 when I saw her at a small club outside Portland, Oregon. Asked me for a smoke and I lit her cigarette. Was a good show, though she chewed out the sax player, a local guy who had a hard time keeping up with her. Also saw her at the Village Vanguard in 1962 (heroin period; she was so good, just a bit disconnected from the audience that night) and at the Mt Hood Jazz Festival in 1982 (big outdoor crowd; there’s a KZbin clip that says it’s from Newport, but I remember her pink pants suit, the numbers, and the trouble she had singing into the bright afternoon sun).
@ihavenocleansocks Жыл бұрын
I love her. If anybody needs someone to take up the mantle of her #1 fan I'd like to apply. Been trying to get a hold of her book since I was 13.
@jasbegs12588 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this, love Anita.
@DaughterOfChrist19972 жыл бұрын
I love you, Anita O’Day :)
@steviesugano63555 жыл бұрын
What a Classic interview. Thanks for posting.
@soniabeltran86326 жыл бұрын
remarkable lady
@j.w.239111 ай бұрын
Love tough broads like Anita. You can stomp 'em and they keep on going ! I think "Skylark" and Thanks for the Boogie Ride first turned me on to her sound ! She was quite the "liberated" lady and testament to a "survivor" !
@PatriotSteve8 ай бұрын
Full of personality
@LearnMadSkillsSigma2 ай бұрын
Anita lived with us when I was a kid. I'm restoring and remastering 18 eight track reels with about 100K in gear and software. We are releasing a VINYL ALBUM w/CD; 2025 of ANITA ODAY. The tapes are 60 years old and I transferred them at CSN in Nevada, where the Imagine Dragons recording Radioactive on an SSL 9000 into Avid converters. COLLECTORS ITEM.
@imbees22 жыл бұрын
I love me some Anita o day
@stacyblue19807 жыл бұрын
this opened with a clip from A Midsummer Nights Dream and it was bizarre to me. Puck! haha But its a good interview. I love Anita ♥
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
At first, I thought that Mickey Rooney was going to be on, as well. Lol.
@brianalejandro57464 жыл бұрын
I saw her final two performances at The Iridium in NYC.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
That is off the charts cool! Do you recall the dates? If I could go back in time, just for jazz, I'd catch Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day. I did get to see Miles Davis, once in the early 1980s. Fantastic.😎
@imbees22 жыл бұрын
Exactly. 😊
@DeeDee-dp9fs4 жыл бұрын
John Poole was still drumming with her. He is pretty good.
@anairenemartinez1657 жыл бұрын
the old broad is great, singer and more! Fantastic, and she was pretty too. Did not make it to Hollywood like Doris and Judy through
@rolom35 жыл бұрын
Does the interviewer have something wrong with him? He keeps saying her name and it's so annoying and just weird
@weinerjay7 жыл бұрын
The distortion because of the video quality is making me trip out!
@aeichler7 жыл бұрын
I turned the stabilization off. Try again.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@aeichler It's awesome and legendary. Ty.
@doitnowvideosyeah58413 жыл бұрын
She made Keith Richards look like a health nut.
@gingerlord4983 Жыл бұрын
What? She's older than that freak.
@carolineblake52016 жыл бұрын
an original American Jazz Stylist --
@odaydrums5 жыл бұрын
Ghiminy Glick?
@imbees22 жыл бұрын
Stop disrespecting Anita o day.
@stargate1213 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is annoying.
@jiyujizai4 жыл бұрын
🙂🍑💐🥀
@dxmxo94276 жыл бұрын
Did she smoke? She was quite aged, smoking can do that I hear
@mikeziccardi74976 жыл бұрын
Heavy drug use!!!!!!
@GLPMusic6 жыл бұрын
I don't know about her smoking, but she had a very bad heroin habit. Actually was pronounced dead in her 40s!
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@mikeziccardi7497 But, she had cleaned up around twenty yrs, before this interview. I'm guessing she continued to smoke, but I'm not sure. I thought she came off well, all things considered.
@mikehudson88842 жыл бұрын
@@waynej2608 Anita is probably 88 or 89 in this interview.