Movie Details

Jazz on a Summer's Day

⭐72.31% /

28th Mar 60 /

Documentary, Music

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.

Series 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)

Movie Details

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Series Cast

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