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Jazz on a Summer's Day

1960, Bert Stern, Aram Avakian

4.8/5

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.

If you like Jazz on a Summer's Day, you might also like United States National Film Registry Films, Documentary Films About Jazz Music And Musicians, 1950s American Films, and Documentary Films About Music Festivals.

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