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Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Average Score: 7.231 (rated by 26 viewers)

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.

Genres

Documentary, Music

Additional info

CastReview
  • 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)