The Newport jazz Festival in 1958: the singers, the instrumentalists, the people in the stands, kids at play, boats preparing for the America's Cup, people at parties. It's not just during the day; and it's not all jazz. There's summer playing Bach on a cello, there are people drinking beer in the evening.
But it's mostly about the music: Armstrong and Teagarden singing, Thelonius Monk playing, and Anita O'Day starting off the festivities by jamming "Sweet Georgia Brown" in recitiative and varying tempi.
It's relaxed, it's pleasurable and it's memorable.
But it's mostly about the music: Armstrong and Teagarden singing, Thelonius Monk playing, and Anita O'Day starting off the festivities by jamming "Sweet Georgia Brown" in recitiative and varying tempi.
It's relaxed, it's pleasurable and it's memorable.