Jazz on a Summer's Day

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

...love on a summer's night!

Documentary Music

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.

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  • Release Date: 1960-03-28
  • Runtime: 1h 22min
  • Director: Bert Stern

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    • Trailer

    Cast

    • Louis Armstrong

      Self

    • Mahalia Jackson

      Self

    • Gerry Mulligan

      Self

    • Dinah Washington

      Self

    • Chico Hamilton

      Self

    • Anita O'Day

      Self

    • George Shearing

      Self

    • Jimmy Giuffre

      Self

    • Chuck Berry

      Self

    • Jack Teagarden

      Self

    • Thelonious Monk

      Self

    • Big Maybelle

      Self

    • Sonny Stitt

      Self

    • Eli's Chosen Six

      Self

    • David Bailie

      Self

    • Danny Barcelona

      Self

    • Bob Brookmeyer

      Self

    • Buck Clayton

      Self

    • Bill Crow

      Self

    • Eric Dolphy

      Self

    • Art Farmer

      Self

    • Harold Gaylor

      Self

    • Nathan Gershman

      Self

    • Terri Gibbs

      Self

    • Urbie Green

      Self

    • Henry Grimes

      Self

    • Jim Hall

      Self

    • Peanuts Hucko

      Self

    • Jo Jones

      Self

    • Ray Mosca

      Self

    • Armando Peraza

      Self

    • Max Roach

      Self

    • Rudy Rutherford

      Self

    • Sal Salvador

      Self

    • Willis Conover

      Interviewer

    • Patricia Bosworth

      Woman in Audience (uncredited)

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