Tuesday, March 1, 2022

JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY (1959)


 





















Directed by: Bert Stern, Aram Avakian
Starring: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Anita O'Day, Jack Teagarden, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Chuck Berry, Big Maybelle, David Bailey, Danny Barcelona, Bob Brookmeyer, Buck Clayton, Bill Crow, Eric Dolphy, Art Farmer, Harold Gaylor, Nathan Gershman, Terry Gibbs, Urbie Green, Henry Grimes, Jim Hall, Peanuts Hucko, Jo Jones, Ray Mosca, Armando Peraza, Max Roach, Rudy Rutherford, Sal Salvador, Willis ConoverEli's Chosen Six

83 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
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.

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