Jazz on a Summer's Day
Jazz on a Summer's Day

Jazz on a Summer's Day

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1960
1h 22m
7.2(26 votes)
Documentary
Music

Overview

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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36 members
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Louis Armstrong

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Louis Armstrong
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Mahalia Jackson

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Mahalia Jackson
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Gerry Mulligan

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Gerry Mulligan
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Dinah Washington

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Dinah Washington
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Chico Hamilton

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Chico Hamilton
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Anita O'Day

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Anita O'Day
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George Shearing

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Jimmy Giuffre

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Chuck Berry

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Chuck Berry
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Jack Teagarden

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Thelonious Monk

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Thelonious Monk
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Big Maybelle

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Sonny Stitt

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Eli's Chosen Six

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David Bailie

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David Bailie
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Danny Barcelona

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Bob Brookmeyer

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Buck Clayton

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Bill Crow

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Eric Dolphy

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Eric Dolphy
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Art Farmer

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Harold Gaylor

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Nathan Gershman

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Terri Gibbs

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Urbie Green

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Henry Grimes

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Jim Hall

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Jim Hall
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Peanuts Hucko

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Jo Jones

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Jo Jones
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Ray Mosca

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Armando Peraza

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Max Roach

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Rudy Rutherford

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Sal Salvador

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Willis Conover

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Patricia Bosworth

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

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