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Jazz on a Summer's Day

Jazz on a Summer's Day

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Overview:

Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, 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.
Released: 1960-03-28
Duration: 01:22:00
Genre: Documentary
Tags: Music
Keywords: National Film Registry, Newport Jazz Festival, Season In Title, ...
Director: Aram Avakian, Bert Stern
Writer: Arnold Perl, Albert D'Annibale
Cast: David Bailie, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, ...
Director: Aram Avakian Bert Stern
Writer: Arnold Perl Albert D'Annibale
Cast: David Bailie Mahalia Jackson Louis Armstrong Gerry Mulligan Dinah Washington Chico Hamilton Anita O'Day George Shearing Jimmy Giuffre Chuck Berry Jack Teagarden Thelonious Monk Big Maybelle Sonny Stitt Eli's Chosen Six Danny Barcelona Bob Brookmeyer Buck Clayton Bill Crow Eric Dolphy Art Farmer Harold Gaylor Nathan Gershman Terri Gibbs Urbie Green Henry Grimes Jim Hall Peanuts Hucko Jo Jones Ray Mosca Armando Peraza Max Roach Rudy Rutherford Sal Salvador Willis Conover Patricia Bosworth
Genre: Documentary
Tags: Music
Keywords: National Film Registry Newport Jazz Festival Season In Title American Culture African American Music African American Culture Newport Rhode Island Concert Music Jazz Concert Film Jazz Score
Description

Although not released until 1960, this feature-length documentary captures all the highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival -- opening with scenes of workers putting finishing touches on the stage shell and a jalopy carrying a Dixieland band through town. The musical numbers are intercut with Newport Harbor, Narragansett Bay and white-sailed yachts over the bay during the 1958 America's Cup Trials. Reviewing what was reportedly more than 100,000 feet of exposed negative color stock, Bert Stern realized he was lacking audience shots. So in his studio, Stern set up chairs and benches over fake funeral grass, invited jazz critic Martin Williams and others to the studio -- and filmed their reactions as they looked at a rough cut.

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