Jazz on a Summer's Day: 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.

Starring:

Anita O'Day, Art Farmer, Buck Clayton, Chuck Berry, Gerry Mulligan, Jack Teagarden, Jo Jones, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Max Roach, Patricia Bosworth, Terry Gibbs, Thelonious Monk

Genre:

Documentary, Music