Jazz on a Summer's Day
- ...love on a summer's night!
- 1960-03-28
- Documentary, Music
- David Bailie, Patricia Bosworth, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Mahalia Jackson, George Shearing, Terri Gibbs, Peanuts Hucko, Dinah Washington, Art Farmer, Bill Crow, Buck Clayton, Jack Teagarden, Danny Barcelona, Jo Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Eric Dolphy, Jim Hall, Bob Brookmeyer, Armando Peraza, Ray Mosca, Nathan Gershman, Sonny Stitt, Sal Salvador, Willis Conover, Rudy Rutherford, Henry Grimes, Big Maybelle, Eli's Chosen Six, Harold Gaylor, Urbie Green
- 1 h. 22 min.
- 7.2/10
- 26
- United States of America
- Galaxy Productions, Raven Films
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.