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Jazz On A Summer's Day

  • Jazz On A Summer's Day
Genre : Musical
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1960
Format : Feature
Running time : 85 (in minutes)

The first major film statement on jazz and the granddaddy of festival films. Noted photographer Bert Stern filmed a virtual Who's Who of jazz and blues at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival: including Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington and Mahalia Jackson.


Bert Stern, USA, 1960, 85m.

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