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Jazz on a Summer's Day
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.
88 Minutes
Louis Armstrong....Himself
Mahalia Jackson....Herself
Gerry Mulligan....Himself
Dinah Washington....Herself
Chico Hamilton....Himself
Anita O'Day....Herself
George Shearing....Himself
Jimmy Giuffre....Himself
Chuck Berry....Himself
Jack Teagarden....Himself
Thelonious Monk....Himself
Big Maybelle....Herself
Sonny Stitt....Himself
Eli's Chosen Six....Themselves
David Baily....Himself
Mahalia Jackson....Herself
Gerry Mulligan....Himself
Dinah Washington....Herself
Chico Hamilton....Himself
Anita O'Day....Herself
George Shearing....Himself
Jimmy Giuffre....Himself
Chuck Berry....Himself
Jack Teagarden....Himself
Thelonious Monk....Himself
Big Maybelle....Herself
Sonny Stitt....Himself
Eli's Chosen Six....Themselves
David Baily....Himself
Genres
Documentary, Music
Produced
1959,US
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