Jazz on a Summer's Day backdrop
Jazz on a Summer's Day poster
Trailer
Jazz on a Summer's Day
7.2
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1h 22m
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1960
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
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