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 "excerpt": "Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) is Bert Stern's color documentary of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, featuring Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, and Mahalia Jackson; a National Film Registry concert-film landmark.",
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 "markdown": "# Jazz on a Summer's Day\n\n**Jazz on a Summer's Day** is a 1959 American documentary concert film directed by the fashion photographer Bert Stern, recording performances at the 1958 [Newport Jazz Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/newport-jazz-festival) in [Rhode Island](https://www.edgepedia.org/rhode-island). Shot in color and intercutting the music with images of sailboats, beaches, and festival crowds, it is often hailed as one of the first feature-length documentaries of a music festival and as a founding work of the concert-film genre.<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://africanfilmny.org/films/jazz-on-a-summers-day/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.timeout.com/movies/jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Subject | Performances at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, held over the Fourth of July weekend (July 4–7, 1958)<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://torontofilmsociety.com/film-notes/jazz-on-a-summers-day-1959-2/)</sup> |\n| Director | Bert Stern, a commercial advertising and magazine photographer, in his only feature film; Aram Avakian co-directed and edited<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/jazz-on-a-summers-day/)</sup> |\n| Release | World premiere at the Venice Film Festival, August 1959, out of competition at 78 minutes; New York opening March 28, 1960<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup> |\n| Format | Color (De Luxe per onscreen credits, Eastman Color per contemporary sources), with a stereophonic sound system synchronized to the cameras<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup> |\n| Featured musicians | Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Stitt, Big Maybelle, Jimmy Giuffre, George Shearing, and the Chico Hamilton Quintet, among others<sup>[5](https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/jazz-on-a-summers-day/)</sup> |\n| Cost | Reported as $210,000 by Time and $250,000 by Down Beat; the New York Times reported 130,000 feet of film shot over six days and six months of editing<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup> |\n| Recognition | Added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999<sup>[6](https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/?loclr=blogtea)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nThe film opens on Newport on a bright July weekend: sailboats heeling across Narragansett Bay, water skiers, couples lounging on lawns, and the crowd drifting into Freebody Park for the festival. Stern intercuts the [America's Cup](https://www.edgepedia.org/americas-cup) yacht trials with the music all through the picture, so the film moves with the rhythm of a day at the shore rather than a recital program. Performances arrive without introductions or narration. A set begins, the camera drifts through it in close-up, and when it ends the film simply moves on.\n\nThe bill is a who's-was of late-fifties jazz. [Louis Armstrong](https://www.edgepedia.org/louis-armstrong) and his All-Stars give the film its warmest stretch, Armstrong grinning through his solos and trading a famous duet with trombonist Jack Teagarden. [Thelonious Monk](https://www.edgepedia.org/thelonious-monk) appears hunched over the piano in his own time signature, and the camera is smart enough to just hold on him. [Dinah Washington](https://www.edgepedia.org/dinah-washington) sings; Chuck Berry turns up and shows how much rock and roll and jazz shared a jukebox; Gerry Mulligan, Chico Hamilton, and Sonny Stitt come and go in crisp, unhurried segments. Jimmy Giuffre, Sal Salvador, and Big Maybelle round out the program.\n\n**The performance the film is remembered by belongs to Anita O'Day.** Wearing a black sheath dress, white gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat, she delivers \"Sweet Georgia Brown\" as a virtuoso scat workout, the camera framing her like a magazine cover come to life, then follows with a breezy, weightless \"Tea for Two.\" She reportedly did not even know she was being filmed. The sequence has come to measure her entire career, and it remains one of the most purely visual performances in any concert film.\n\nThe film's last act belongs to gospel. After Armstrong closes the festival with \"When the Saints Go Marching In,\" the film cuts to [Mahalia Jackson](https://www.edgepedia.org/mahalia-jackson), whose set had been deliberately delayed until after midnight because she did not want to sing on the same bill as the secular acts. She performs two upbeat gospel numbers and then, plainly framed, sings \"The Lord's Prayer\" a cappella, and the crowd that had been dancing and drinking all weekend goes still. It is the one moment the film lets run to full length, and it ends the picture not on a headliner's showmanship but on the sacred root underneath the whole weekend. The closing credits roll over a Dixieland band riding in an open car.\n\n### Characters\n\nThere are no characters, only performers, and the film identifies none of them on screen.\n\n- **Louis Armstrong** (himself): the festival's warmest presence, grinning through his trumpet solos and singing with the ease of a man with nothing left to prove. His performance clearance alone cost $25,000, nearly a quarter of the budget.\n- **Thelonious Monk** (himself): the film's one stretch of difficulty, angular and detached at the piano, captured in long, patient close-ups.\n- **Anita O'Day** (herself): the film's movie star, all glamour and swing, in the two numbers that came to define her.\n- **Dinah Washington** (herself): commanding blues and ballad singing from the same bill.\n- **Mahalia Jackson** (herself): the gospel closer, whose midnight set gives the film its quietly sacred ending.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\n[The gospel](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-gospel) ending divides viewers. Jackson refused to perform on the same day as the secular acts, so her set ran after midnight, and some critics find the cut from Armstrong's \"Saints\" into her hymns an odd, even pious non sequitur after an afternoon of beer and dancing; others call it the film's most moving stroke. There was also a long credit dispute: Aram Avakian, who edited the film into its final shape and claimed much of the directing, went uncredited as director, while Stern insisted the film \"didn't have a director.\" Contemporary jazz critics were harsher than posterity has been, calling the style irrelevant and obtrusive.\n\n## Production\n\nIn 1958 Stern was inspired by a friend to \"take some pictures\" of the Newport Jazz Festival, and the project grew into a full-fledged motion picture, the only film he would direct before returning to portrait photography.<sup>[7](https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ILS%2F0%2FSD_ILS%3A1546342)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[8](https://www.tcm.com/articles/1572391/jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup> According to a February 1960 New York Times article, he was invited by the festival's founder, Louis Lorillard. Stern, who knew little about jazz, recruited the [Columbia Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/columbia-records) producer George Avakian as music director and entrusted decisions about whom to film to him.<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://www.jazztimes.com/features/columns/jazz-on-a-summers-day-bringing-jazz-into-the-sun/?v=a672068055fa)</sup> The film editor Aram Avakian, George Avakian's brother, was deeply involved in both filming and editing and is credited as co-director by several sources.<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://www.wbgo.org/music/2020-03-26/lensing-the-newport-mob-60-years-later-a-deep-dive-into-jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup>\n\nShooting a live concert posed technical problems, and Allan Green developed an elaborate stereophonic sound system synchronized to the cameras. Stern said the crew \"tried to show the form and beauty of jazz by the various devices, such as wave and water effects, children playing and reflections.\"<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup> Sources disagree on the shooting schedule and budget: the New York Times reported 130,000 feet of film over six days, Time reported four days of shooting at a cost of $210,000, and Down Beat reported an overall cost of $250,000, with Stern using much of his own money to finish the picture.<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup>\n\n## Style and content\n\nThe film departs from the conventions of documentary. It has no central story, no conventional voice-over narration, and cameras repeatedly cut away from the performers to Newport street life, the America's Cup yacht race trials, and the audience.<sup>[11](https://www.afterhoursfilmsociety.com/jazz-on-a-summers-day.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[12](https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/pc289p08n.pdf)</sup> The radio broadcaster Willis Conover, the festival emcee, supplies the only narration through his stage announcements introducing each act, and the film's only on-camera interview is Conover's exchange with Louis Armstrong.<sup>[12](https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/pc289p08n.pdf)</sup> Stern used the long lenses he favored in still photography to shoot performers in tight closeup, often holding unusually long takes, and in night scenes he shot into the stage lights, a technique not common in documentary films before this one.<sup>[10](https://www.wbgo.org/music/2020-03-26/lensing-the-newport-mob-60-years-later-a-deep-dive-into-jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup>\n\nThe music moves from bebop improvisation to gospel as day turns to night. Highlights include Anita O'Day's up-tempo, partially scat version of \"Tea for Two,\" Chuck Berry duck-walking through \"Sweet Little Sixteen\" with a jazz group that includes the drummer [Jo Jones](https://www.edgepedia.org/jo-jones), and Mahalia Jackson, who closes the film with a rendition of \"The Lord's Prayer\" at midnight to usher in Sunday morning, after \"Everybody's Talking About Heaven\" and \"Didn't It Rain.\"<sup>[5](https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/jazz-on-a-summers-day/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.timeout.com/movies/jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CODA/1991/CODA%20JUL%201991%20ISS%20238.pdf)</sup> Thelonious Monk's performance of \"Blue Monk\" is largely obscured: the film cuts away to the America's Cup races seconds after he starts, and an announcer's call of the race competes with his music on the soundtrack.<sup>[14](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-classic-jazz-documentary-that-honors-and-insults-the-art-form)</sup>\n\n## Reception and criticism\n\nAt its release the film was both acclaimed and dismissed, sometimes in the same review. Variety called it \"doubtlessly one of the greatest films on jazz ever made,\" while the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther found it \"inconsistent and thin\" scenically strong but structurally weak, suggesting the title \"Lensing the Newport Mob.\"<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://www.wbgo.org/music/2020-03-26/lensing-the-newport-mob-60-years-later-a-deep-dive-into-jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup> In 1985 the LAWeekly called it \"the first great film of American music.\"<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup> On Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 97% Tomatometer score from 36 reviews.<sup>[15](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jazz_on_a_summers_day)</sup>\n\n**Curation and omission.** [The New Yorker](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-new-yorker) critic Richard Brody has argued that what the film leaves out is as important as what it includes. [Sonny Rollins](https://www.edgepedia.org/sonny-rollins), Miles Davis (with his sextet, which included [John Coltrane](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-coltrane)), Duke Ellington and his big band, the pianist Mary Lou Williams, and Max Roach with a quintet that included the trumpeter Booker Little all performed at the 1958 festival, and none appears in the film. Brody reads the selection as filtering out musical vehemence by Black musicians and presenting the leading edge of modern jazz as largely placid and largely white, which, he writes, \"it just wasn't so.\"<sup>[14](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-classic-jazz-documentary-that-honors-and-insults-the-art-form)</sup> He also notes a disparity in how Stern films two singers: Anita O'Day, who is white, appears in extreme closeup for much of her eight-minute sequence, while Dinah Washington is shown for about four minutes, with the camera twice fixed on the bow on the front of her dress.<sup>[14](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-classic-jazz-documentary-that-honors-and-insults-the-art-form)</sup>\n\n## Influence and legacy\n\nWidely celebrated as a pioneering and hugely impactful concert documentary, it helped establish the model for later landmark films like [Monterey Pop](https://www.edgepedia.org/monterey-pop) (1968) and [Woodstock](https://www.edgepedia.org/woodstock) (1970).<sup>[3](https://www.timeout.com/movies/jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[16](https://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2010/DB201005/_art/DB201005.pdf)</sup> Scholars of the concert-documentary genre identify in it the establishment of conventions later central to the \"rockumentary,\" including its depiction of audience members reacting to the music and the synergistic relationship between filmmaker, artist, studio, and record company.<sup>[17](https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/resources/9781474478045_Mapping_the_Rockumentary_Introduction.pdf)</sup> The filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has called it \"the gold standard, for me, of making a film out of music.\"<sup>[10](https://www.wbgo.org/music/2020-03-26/lensing-the-newport-mob-60-years-later-a-deep-dive-into-jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup>\n\nThe Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry in 1999 as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.<sup>[6](https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/?loclr=blogtea)</sup> It was remastered on DVD in 2000 at a running time of 84 minutes, and more recently restored in 4K from the best surviving vault elements by IndieCollect for theatrical re-release.<sup>[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[18](https://kinolorber.com/film/jazz-on-a-summers-day)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960), AFI Catalog of Feature Films](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53196-JAZZ-ON-A-SUMMER%27S-DAY)\n2. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, African Film Festival, Inc.](https://africanfilmny.org/films/jazz-on-a-summers-day/)\n3. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, Time Out film review](https://www.timeout.com/movies/jazz-on-a-summers-day)\n4. [Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959), Toronto Film Society film notes](https://torontofilmsociety.com/film-notes/jazz-on-a-summers-day-1959-2/)\n5. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna](https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/jazz-on-a-summers-day/)\n6. [Complete National Film Registry Listing, Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/?loclr=blogtea)\n7. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, Kalamazoo Public Library catalog](https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ILS%2F0%2FSD_ILS%3A1546342)\n8. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, Turner Classic Movies article by Jack Fields](https://www.tcm.com/articles/1572391/jazz-on-a-summers-day)\n9. [Jazz on a Summer's Day: Bringing Jazz Into the Sun, JazzTimes](https://www.jazztimes.com/features/columns/jazz-on-a-summers-day-bringing-jazz-into-the-sun/?v=a672068055fa)\n10. [Lensing the Newport Mob: 60 Years Later, A Deep Dive Into 'Jazz on a Summer's Day', WBGO](https://www.wbgo.org/music/2020-03-26/lensing-the-newport-mob-60-years-later-a-deep-dive-into-jazz-on-a-summers-day)\n11. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, After Hours Film Society](https://www.afterhoursfilmsociety.com/jazz-on-a-summers-day.html)\n12. [Rockumentary: Style, Performance & Sound in a Documentary Genre, McGill University eScholarship](https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/pc289p08n.pdf)\n13. [CODA, July 1991, issue 238, WorldRadioHistory](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CODA/1991/CODA%20JUL%201991%20ISS%20238.pdf)\n14. [A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form, The New Yorker, Richard Brody](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-classic-jazz-documentary-that-honors-and-insults-the-art-form)\n15. [Jazz on a Summer's Day, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jazz_on_a_summers_day)\n16. [DownBeat digital edition, May 2010](https://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2010/DB201005/_art/DB201005.pdf)\n17. [Mapping the Rockumentary, Edinburgh University Press (introduction PDF)](https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/resources/9781474478045_Mapping_the_Rockumentary_Introduction.pdf)\n18. 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