Anita O’Day – Tea for Two (1958)

Another sublime performance from Anita O’Day, singing Tea for Two at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Watching her scat is heaven! Her playfulness with the audience and the band is lovely to watch, and once again I wish I was born decades earlier. What I would give to be there on that fine afternoon, eating ice dream, enjoying the breeze and Anita’s voice.

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Picture you upon my knee
Just tea for two
And two for tea
Just me for you
And you for me alone