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Rating: 7 stars

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jazz festival musician performance rhode island

All movies seen on 03/20/2024

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Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Directed by Bert Stern

Music | History | Documentary

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.

Length 82 minutes

Actors

Louis Armstrong | Mahalia Jackson | Gerry Mulligan | Dinah Washington | Chico Hamilton | Anita O'Day | George Shearing | Jimmy Giuffre | Chuck Berry | Jack Teagarden | Thelonious Monk | Big Maybelle | Sonny Stitt | Eli's Chosen Six | David Bailie | Danny Barcelona | Bob Brookmeyer | Buck Clayton | Bill Crow | Eric Dolphy | Art Farmer | Harold Gaylor | Nathan Gershman | Terri Gibbs | Urbie Green | Henry Grimes | Jim Hall | Peanuts Hucko | Jo Jones | Ray Mosca | Armando Peraza | Max Roach | Rudy Rutherford | Sal Salvador | Willis Conover | Patricia Bosworth

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Yesterday when I was creating the 101 Cult Movies list and came upon this title I wondered why it would be on the list. By sheer luck I found the dvd at a local thrift store today. Like how random is that?

I still don’t know why this is a “cult film” but it sure is a nice slice of this music and festival featuring some of the greats.

とても懐かしい！　(very nostalgic from growing with the Bix Beiderbecke festival in Davenport and taking jazz appreciation my first year of college, which I loved)

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