Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)
"...love on a summer's night!"
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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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Cast
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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