Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

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Cast & Crew.

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)

Bert Stern
Director / Producer / Cinematography

Arnold Perl
Continuity / Writer

Aram Avakian
Co-Director / Editor

George Wein
Music Producer

Elliot Gruskin
Sound

Harvey Kahn
Associate Producer

Courtney Hesfela
Cinematography

Albert D'Annibale
Writer

Raymond Phelan
Cinematography
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Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Jazz on a Summer's Day is a 1959 concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island (which took place from July 3 to July 6 of 1958). The film was directed by Aram Avakian who also edited the film. and was princpal Cinematographer.
Co-Director Bert Stern, (commercial and fashion photographer) Directed the party scenes featuring his friends, and the water scenes.
The Columbia Records legendary Jazz producer, George Avakian, was the fim's Music Supervisor
The film mixes images of water with the performers and audience at the festival. It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. The film is largely without dialog or narration (except for periodic announcements by emcee Willis Conover).
The film features performances by Jimmy Giuffre; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Stitt; Anita O'Day; Dinah Washington; Gerry Mulligan; Chuck Berry; Chico Hamilton, with Eric Dolphy; and Louis Armstrong, with Jack Teagarden. Also appearing are Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Armando Peraza, and Eli's Chosen Six, the Yale College student ensemble that included trombonist Roswell Rudd, shown driving around Newport in a convertible jalopy, playing Dixieland.
As was scheduled in advance and announced in the program, the last performer Saturday night was Mahalia Jackson, who sang a one-hour program beginning at midnight, thus ushering in Sunday morning. The film concluded with her performance of The Lord's Prayer.
In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film received a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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