Live in Tokyo '63

Live in Tokyo '63
by Takao Ishizuka

Live in Tokyo '63

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Actor: Anita O'day
Director: Takao Ishizuka
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: R.E.D. Distribution

DVD Reviews of Live in Tokyo '63

DVD Review: Unexplicably bad quality
Summary: 3 Stars

Believe me, I wanted this to be great. Anita is fine, but the sound and especially the video quality is second rate. I'm assuming it's videotape, which should be crisp and clean. It's the early 60s, so sound recording was top notch by then. I've gotten spoiled by the Jazz Icons DVDs put out by Reelin' In the Year Productions. They have stuff from the 50s that will knock your eyes and ears out. Until they can find, or get the rights to, some cool Anita O'Day footage from the 50s or 60s, this Tokyo DVD will have to do, begrudgingly.

DVD Review: A diva in her prime
Summary: 4 Stars

Seeing Anita O'Day perform is always a treat. She is my favorite female singer from that era.

I have to ding this DVD one point for poor video quality. It was a TV show, but I don't think they even taped it. This looks like the old kinescope recordings from the early days of TV where they just filmed a monitor while the show was going out live.

DVD Review: Singing, Swinging, Scatting
Summary: 5 Stars

After seeing the excellent new documentary Anita O'Day: Life Of A Jazz Singer, I got interested in further exploration of her music. This DVD catches Anita at the peak of her abilities. Whether she's fronting a big band on "Stella By Starlight" or a small combo on "Honeysuckle Rose," she swings hard, with humor and heart in equal measures. There's a depth of feeling in her singing that is completely captivating. She can move you with a single word. While I enjoy modern jazzy singers like Stacey Kent and Diana Krall, there simply is no comparison once you hear Anita O'Day. She is the real thing. I'd recommend this DVD to anyone who loves jazz and great singing.

DVD Review: The Epitome of Cool
Summary: 5 Stars

Despite being a less than stellar transfer to DVD, Kayo's "Live in Tokyo '63" is a must-have for those of us who just can't get enough Anita O'Day. Looking glamorous, fit, and younger than her years, Miss O'Day delivers the goods on each and every song. The voice is only part of the scintillating package: hand gestures (gloved, naturally), body movement, facial expressions, good looks--all devastatingly cool. It strikes me as paradoxical that someone whose personal life was so chaotic and fraught with vice could pull herself together long enough to create a performance this flawless. Granted, she has plently of help in the form of The All-Star Orchestra and Inomata and His West Liners, both highly talented groups of jazz musicians. But not for one moment is there any doubt as to who's THE STAR here. Re-creating each song in her own lovely image, Miss O'Day manages to capture and so completely dominate the stage that one hardly cares which tunes Cole Porter wrote, and when the camera cuts away briefly to feature a soloing musician, we're just thankful that the solos are, indeed, brief. I might add that the camerawork and composition of shots throughout are phenomenal, adding even more interest and variety to the inherently intriguing entity that is Anita O'Day.

DVD Review: Cool Confident and one more reason she beat Billie Holiday in the polls
Summary: 5 Stars

You have got to see this. Anita O'Day in Tokyo, clearly in charge and getting performances out of the Japanese band they could only imagine in their dreams. Now you can understand why she consistently beat Billie Holiday in the polls at the time. She was hot, stylish, confident and striking both vocally and personally.
I had the privilege of seeing her twice in the 1990s and especially on the earlier performance (on a double bill with Chris Connor) she still had it in spades.
It's great to finally have this DVD available to the general public to enjoy. It's in black and white but otherwise it could have been taped last year and still be exciting to watch.
She was one of a kind.
Bill Donoghue

Description of Live in Tokyo '63

1. Boogie Blues
2. Trav'lin' Light
3. Honeysuckle Rose
4. Avalon
5. Bewitched
6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
7. Night And Day
8. Let's Fall In Love
9. Sweet Georgia Brown
10. Tea For Two
11. Stella By Starlight
12. Love For Sale
13. Get Out Of Town
14. That Old Feeling
15. Four Brothers

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