Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Name: Jazz on a Summer's Day
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1960-03-28
Duration: 82 min
Cast: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington, Chico Hamilton

...love on a summer's night!

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.

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Released 1960-03-28 · 82 min · Documentary, Music

Directed by Bert Stern

Cast

Louis Armstrong as Self
Mahalia Jackson as Self
Gerry Mulligan as Self
Dinah Washington as Self
Chico Hamilton as Self
Anita O'Day as Self
George Shearing as Self
Jimmy Giuffre as Self
Chuck Berry as Self
Jack Teagarden as Self
Thelonious Monk as Self
Big Maybelle as Self
Sonny Stitt as Self
Eli's Chosen Six as Self
David Bailie as Self