Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960) - Double Feature

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...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.


Main Cast: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington, Chico Hamilton, Anita O'Day, George Shearing, Jimmy Giuffre, Chuck Berry, Jack Teagarden

Director: Bert Stern

Writers: Arnold Perl, Albert D'Annibale

Editor: Aram Avakian

Cinematographers: Bert Stern, Courtney Hesfela, Raymond Phelan


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