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'Jazz on a Summer's Day'

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The iconic image of Anita O'Day is from "Jazz on a Summer's Day," shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, where she showed up for her afternoon set in heels, an audacious bonnet and a slinky black dress, treating the crowd (some of whom looked somnambulistic) to a white-hot "Sweet Georgia Brown." O'Day was high as a kite - probably, she says, in one of the many interviews that punctuate "The Life...

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