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Jazz on a Summer's Day

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.

RATING

7.20

DIRECTOR

Bert Stern

COUNTRIE

United States of America

RELEASE DATE

1960

TIME

1h 22m

GENRES

Documentary