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Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1960)
Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, 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.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Actor: Anita O'Day Chico Hamilton Chuck Berry Dinah Washington George Shearing Gerry Mulligan Jack Teagarden Jimmy Giuffre Louis Armstrong Mahalia Jackson
Director: Aram Avakian, Bert Stern
Country: USA
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