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Jazz on a Summer's Day

1959

Aram Avakian, Bert Stern

Documentary, Self: Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry ...

7.7

139

Documentary Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Several of the performances are among the treasures of filmed music; all of them, whatever their musical merit, are filmed with a rare artistry, a rare attention to making images of music that are themselves musical."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"As generous a dish of top jazz music as any cat could take in one gulp."
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"[It] is as quietly vital a political document as it is a gloriously entertaining sprint through a long weekend that changed the music industry forever (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Variety Staff Variety	"A document of its time as well via observation of audiences and the life surrounding the Newport event"

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