Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

7.3/10 • 82 min • Documentary Music

Overview

Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.

Cast

Louis Armstrong

Mahalia Jackson

Gerry Mulligan

Dinah Washington

Chico Hamilton

Anita O'Day

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Chuck Berry

Thelonious Monk

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David Bailie

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Eric Dolphy

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