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Jazz on a Summer's Day

DocumentaryMusic

1960, 1h 22min

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.

"Jazz on a Summer's Day" — documentary and music movie produced in USA and released in 1960. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.9 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 22min. "Jazz on a Summer's Day" is currently available for rent and to buy on Rakuten TV and Sky Store. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: United States

Directors:

Cast:

Louis Armstrong,

Mahalia Jackson

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Critic rating Average critic rating

7

Reviews

Critic Peter Bradshaw

rated

6

...intriguing musical offerings...

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Richard Whittaker

rated

8

...Jazz on a Summer's Day is as quietly vital a political document as it is a gloriously entertaining sprint through a long weekend that changed the music industry forever.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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