Fresh
As generous a dish of top jazz music as any cat could take in one gulp.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Jazz on a Summer's Day
...love on a summer's night!
1960 · 1h 22m · N/A
Documentary, Music
Directed by
Bert Stern
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.
Director and cast
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100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The sense of well-being is immense.
Dave Kehr, New York Daily News
Fresh
It's Americana, and a document of its time as well via observation of audiences and the life surrounding the Newport event, not least the neatly-integrated footage concerning the America Cup Yacht Races.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Jazz bounds from strength to strength, stylishly immortalizing transcendently beautiful music on a glorious day, suggesting in the process that film might have no higher purpose.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Fresh
Shot in gorgeous color, it's probably the best feature-length jazz concert movie ever made.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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