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Movie • 1960 • 1h 22m • Documentary / Music

Jazz on a Summer's Day

★ 7.3 on TMDB (29 votes)

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Story

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.

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Directed by

Bert Stern

Cast

Louis Armstrong as SelfMahalia Jackson as SelfGerry Mulligan as SelfDinah Washington as SelfChico Hamilton as SelfAnita O'Day as SelfGeorge Shearing as SelfJimmy Giuffre as SelfChuck Berry as SelfJack Teagarden as Self

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