Jazz on a Summer's Day 1960

...love on a summer's night!

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Documentary Music

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.

Release Date 1960-03-28
Runtime 1h 22m
Directors Bert Stern, Aram Avakian
Producers George Wein, Bert Stern, Harvey Kahn
Writers Albert D'Annibale, Arnold Perl