Jazz on a Summers Day
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100% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Documentary, Music Country United States | 8/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Bert Stern, Aram Avakian Release date 1960 Writer Albert DAnnibale, Arnold Perl Initial release March 28, 1960 (New York City) Screenplay Arnold Perl, Albert DAnnibale Cinematography Bert Stern, Raymond Phelan, Courtney Hesfela Cast Anita ODay , Louis Armstrong , Thelonious Monk , Mahalia Jackson , Gerry Mulligan Similar movies The Last Witch Hunter , Jupiter Ascending , Frozen , Knock Knock , Pitch Perfect 2 , The Wolf of Wall Street | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960) is a concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern. The Columbia Records jazz producer, George Avakian, was the musical director of the film.
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The film mixes images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival. It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. The film is largely without dialog or narration (except for periodic announcements by emcee Willis Conover).
The film features performances by Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Jack Teagarden. Also appearing are Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Armando Peraza, and Eli's Chosen Six, the Yale College student ensemble that included trombonist Roswell Rudd, shown driving around Newport in a convertible jalopy, playing Dixieland.
Many performances ran so long that the last act, Mahalia Jackson, did not appear on stage until after midnight, performing the Lord's Prayer.
In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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ASIN B00003OSU4
The film was also re-released in 2001 by Charly Records and sold with an audio CD of the music and some of the commentary. ASIN: B00005NX0L
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