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

Chico Hamilton

Self

Chuck Berry

Thelonious Monk

Self

David Bailie

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Eric Dolphy

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