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.
Directed by: Bert Stern
Top Billed Cast: Sal Salvador, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk
Runtime: 82 minutes
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Louis Armstrong
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Mahalia Jackson
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Gerry Mulligan
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Dinah Washington
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Chico Hamilton
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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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Jack Teagarden
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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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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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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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Peanuts Hucko
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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)
