Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Jazz on a Summer's Day

This is an amazing film. A few reasons:
  1. Anita O'Day singing Sweet Georgia Brown.
  2. Bert Stern's mannered cinematography.
  3. How wonderfully he captured Newport, RI on that particular weekend in 1958 and the "liveness" of the performances.

Sonny Stitt and Sal Salvador


Anita O'Day


Big Maybelle Smith


Chuck Berry: Sweet Little Sixteen and a blaring clarinet solo!

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