Jazz on a Summer's Day
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Chico Hamilton · Jimmy Giuffre · Albert D'Annibale · Chuck Berry · Anita O'Day · Jack Teagarden · Dinah Washington · Mahalia Jackson · Gerry Mulligan · Louis Armstrong · George Shearing · Arnold Perl · Bert Stern