Jazz on a Summer's Day
Jazz on a Summer's Day is a 1960 published documentary that plays at the Newport Jazz Festival on Sunday, July 6, 1958. Director and cinematographer was the respected advertising, fashion and press photographer Bert Stern, whose only film is. The film is generally considered one of the finest jazz films in which the diverse musical styles to "speak ", bop, cool jazz, the avant-garde to traditional jazz, also gospel, rock and rhythm and blues.
The film mixes images of water and the city with the musicians and the audience at the festival. In addition, scenes of the America's Cup yacht race in 1958 are used. The film is largely without dialogue or Offtext, apart from the occasional comments of MC Willis Conover. Therefore, it is useful to the groups in the order in which they appear, enumerate:
- Jimmy Giuffre Trio: Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall ( The Train and the River )
- Thelonious Monk Trio: Monk, Henry Grimes, Roy Haynes ( Blue Monk )
- Sonny Stitt and Sal Salvador ( Blues )
- Anita O'Day (Sweet Georgia Brown, Tea for Two, with Max Roach )
- George Shearing Quintet ( Rondo )
- Dinah Washington ( All of me ), with Terry Gibbs, Urbie Green, Max Roach
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Mulligan, Art Farmer ( Catch as catch can )
- Chuck Berry ( Sweet little sixteen, accompanied by Teagarden and Jo Jones)
- Chico Hamilton Quintet ( Blue Sands, with Eric Dolphy ), John Pisano (guitar)
- Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars: Jack Teagarden, Trummy Young ( trombone), Danny Barcelona ( drums), Billy Kyle (piano ) ( Up a Lazy River Tiger Rag Rockin 'Chair, When the Saints Go Marching In)
- Mahalia Jackson ( Did not it rain, Shout all over, Lords prayer )
Also on show are inter alia, Buck Clayton, Peanuts Hucko, Ray Mosca, Bill Crow and Armando Pareza.
The screenplay of the film was written by Albert D' Annibale and Arnold Perl. He was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.
The film has been released on DVD.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film, " Documentary from Jazz Festival in Newport in 1959 with the elite of contemporary soloists. For friends and lovers of jazz style, visually and acoustically a pleasure. "