Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)
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
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Louis Armstrong as Self |
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Mahalia Jackson as Self |
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Gerry Mulligan as Self |
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Dinah Washington as Self |
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Chico Hamilton as Self |
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Anita O'Day as Self |
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George Shearing as Self |
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Jimmy Giuffre as Self |
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Chuck Berry as Self |
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Jack Teagarden as Self |
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Thelonious Monk as Self |
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Big Maybelle as Self |
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Sonny Stitt as Self |
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Eli's Chosen Six as Self |
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David Bailie as Self |
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Danny Barcelona as Self |
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Bob Brookmeyer as Self |
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Buck Clayton as Self |
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Bill Crow as Self |
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Eric Dolphy as Self |
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Art Farmer as Self |
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Harold Gaylor as Self |
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Nathan Gershman as Self |
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Terri Gibbs as Self |
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Urbie Green as Self |
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Henry Grimes as Self |
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Jim Hall as Self |
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Peanuts Hucko as Self |
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Jo Jones as Self |
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Ray Mosca as Self |
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Armando Peraza as Self |
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Max Roach as Self |
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Rudy Rutherford as Self |
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Sal Salvador as Self |
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Willis Conover as Interviewer |
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Patricia Bosworth as Woman in Audience (uncredited) |
| Directing | Bert Stern | Director |
| Directing | Arnold Perl | Continuity |
| Directing | Aram Avakian | Co-Director |
| Sound | George Wein | Music Producer |
| Sound | Elliot Gruskin | Sound |
| Production | Harvey Kahn | Associate Producer |
| Crew | Courtney Hesfela | Cinematography |
| Writing | Albert D'Annibale | Writer |
| Production | Bert Stern | Producer |
| Crew | Raymond Phelan | Cinematography |
| Editing | Aram Avakian | Editor |
| Crew | Bert Stern | Cinematography |
| Writing | Arnold Perl | Writer |