Jazz on a Summer's Day
7.231
82 minutes
3/28/1960
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.
Cast List
Louis Armstrong
as Self
Mahalia Jackson
as Self
Gerry Mulligan
as Self
Dinah Washington
as Self
Chico Hamilton
as Self
Anita O'Day
as Self
George Shearing
as Self
Jimmy Giuffre
as Self
Chuck Berry
as Self
Jack Teagarden
as Self
Thelonious Monk
as Self
Big Maybelle
as Self
Sonny Stitt
as Self
Eli's Chosen Six
as Self
David Bailie
as Self
Danny Barcelona
as Self
Bob Brookmeyer
as Self
Buck Clayton
as Self
Bill Crow
as Self
Eric Dolphy
as Self
Art Farmer
as Self
Harold Gaylor
as Self
Nathan Gershman
as Self
Terri Gibbs
as Self
Urbie Green
as Self
Henry Grimes
as Self
Jim Hall
as Self
Peanuts Hucko
as Self
Jo Jones
as Self
Ray Mosca
as Self
Armando Peraza
as Self
Max Roach
as Self
Rudy Rutherford
as Self
Sal Salvador
as Self
Willis Conover
as Interviewer
Patricia Bosworth
as Woman in Audience (uncredited)