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Jazz on a Summer's Day

  • 19591959
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  • 1h 28m
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Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, and Dinah Washington in Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
Official Re-Release
Play trailer1:17
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The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
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    • Bert Stern
    • Aram Avakian(co-director)
    • Albert D'Annibale
    • Arnold Perl
  • Stars
    • Louis Armstrong
    • Mahalia Jackson
    • Chuck Berry
    • Bert Stern
    • Aram Avakian(co-director)
    • Albert D'Annibale
    • Arnold Perl
  • Stars
    • Louis Armstrong
    • Mahalia Jackson
    • Chuck Berry
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    • 24User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
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    Chico Hamilton
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    Anita O'Day
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    George Shearing
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    Jimmy Giuffre
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    Jack Teagarden
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    Thelonious Monk
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    Sonny Stitt
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    Eli's Chosen Six
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    David Baily
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    Danny Barcelona
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    Bob Brookmeyer
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    Buck Clayton
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      • Bert Stern
      • Aram Avakian(co-director)
      • Albert D'Annibale
      • Arnold Perl
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    • Trivia
      Bert Stern, when trying to retrieve his archives from Spain, offered the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, all the footage of the film, along with the outtakes, in return for their paying the outstanding $50,000 storage bill and shipping them back to New York.
    • Quotes

      Louis Armstrong: I was at a little Italian trumpet player's house, and his mother was a Countess, well they was makin' that spaghetti and we was wailin', you know. In this big ol' dinin' room they had this table and up in the ceilin' they had Mark Anthony and Cleo and all the cats that they painted. Lookin' down on you as if to say, "Man, you shore can eat!"

      [laughs]

      Louis Armstrong: Well, we have a lot of fun travelin', man.

    • Connections
      Featured in American Masters: John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Train and the River
      Music by Jimmy Giuffre
      Performed by Jimmy Giuffre

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    jazz on a summer day
    Maybe 'cause I'm not a jazz afficionado but am an inveterate people watcher I had the exact opposite reaction to Pres. Washington below. Absolutely loved the crowd shots! A real potpourri of late 50s, left wing/avant garde America where the young men all look like future Kennedy era hipsters and the gals resemble various incarnations of Sylvia Plath. As for the music I'll agree with the pres that Satchmo is pretty damn hard not to like. And I'll see if I can rustle up some Anita O'Day on You Tube. Give it a B. PS...How in the world did rock 'n roll, in the form of Chuck Berry, ever crash this jazz bash?
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      • February 11, 1960 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • New York City, New York, USA
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      • Galaxy Productions (I)
      • Raven Films
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    • 1 hour 28 minutes
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