"Sweet Little Sixteen" is a #rockAndRoll song written and first recorded by #ChuckBerry, who released it as a single in January 1958. His performance of it at that year's #NewportJazzFestival was included in the documentary film #JazzOnASummersDay. It reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Big Maybelle Smith getting the crowd off of their asses
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The night heats up with Dinah Washington (seen here at rehearsals at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958)
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Yes. The lady with the fabulous hat from the crowd was Anita O’Day waiting her turn
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Thelonious Monk at The Newport Jazz Festival (c.1958, also pictured is Miles Davis)
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Not enough people today with topless cars ride around with a band playing live, New Orleans style jazz piled in the backseat
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I love how this starts immediately with grooving with The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall)
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