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    Jazz on a Summer's Day

    Jazz on a Summer's Day

    "...love on a summer's night!"

    1960

    1:22:27

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    7.2/10 (26)

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    Jazz on a Summer's Day

    Genre

    Documentary
    Music

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Bert Stern

    Writers

    Albert D'Annibale, Arnold Perl,

    Stars

    Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington, Chico Hamilton,