Jazz on a Summer's Day - 1959

This is a lovely "movie" - the kind of movie you can sit down and watch or have on in the background with friends over, or reading a book and sipping a glass of wine.

Basically, the director (also a famous photographer), Burt Stern filmed a whole series of performances at the Newport Jazz Festival. There's Louis Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk to name a couple and many, many more famous jazz figures. Not only did he film the concert though, he caught audience reactions (the women are wearing the most beautiful, funky 1960s dresses), drunk teenagers, funny reports, sailing, scenery, the set up of the concert and Jazz on a Summer's Day was born. It's funky, fun and cruisy all at once and oozes class that only jazz can.

I highly recommend it.

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Jazz on a Summer's Day

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