Jazz on a Summer's Day

1959·82'

Bert Stern

MusicDocumentary

★ 7.3

Letterboxd TMDB #53434

...love on a summer's night!

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 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