Jazz on a Summer's Day
28/03/1960
1h 22m

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.
Cast


Louis Armstrong
Self


Mahalia Jackson
Self


Gerry Mulligan
Self


Dinah Washington
Self


Chico Hamilton
Self


Anita O'Day
Self
George Shearing
Self
Jimmy Giuffre
Self


Chuck Berry
Self
Jack Teagarden
Self


Thelonious Monk
Self
Big Maybelle
Self
Sonny Stitt
Self
Eli's Chosen Six
Self


David Bailie
Self
Danny Barcelona
Self
Bob Brookmeyer
Self
Buck Clayton
Self
Bill Crow
Self


Eric Dolphy
Self
Art Farmer
Self
Harold Gaylor
Self
Nathan Gershman
Self
Terri Gibbs
Self
Urbie Green
Self
Henry Grimes
Self


Jim Hall
Self
Peanuts Hucko
Self


Jo Jones
Self
Ray Mosca
Self
Armando Peraza
Self


Max Roach
Self
Rudy Rutherford
Self
Sal Salvador
Self
Willis Conover
Interviewer
Patricia Bosworth
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
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