Jazz on a Summer's Day
...love on a summer's night!
Movie - 82mins
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:
Max
Roach
Rudy
Rutherford
Sal
Salvador
Willis
Conover
Patricia
Bosworth
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
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
Louis
Armstrong
Mahalia
Jackson
Gerry
Mulligan
Dinah
Washington
Chico
Hamilton