Jazz on a Summer's Day

Documentary, Music

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Bert Stern

Status Released

Release Date 1960-03-28

Storyline

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.

"...love on a summer's night!"