Jazz on a Summer's Day

1959

English

7.9

♡ 4

97%

Aram Avakian Director

Dorothy Tristan as Blonde woman in audience reading Camille

Louis Armstrong as Self

Anita O'Day as Self

Max Roach as Self

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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Jazz on a Summer's Day