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It is a film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, shot in Technicolor. The staggering amount of talent performing in the festival included Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, Music/LouisArmstrong, and the best gospel singer to ever live, Mahalia Jackson. Music/ChuckBerry showed up to inject some rock into the jazz festival, and performs a blistering rendition of his then-new single "Sweet Little Sixteen". Interpolated throughout the film are scenes staged for the movie of a Dixieland jazz band traveling around Newport in an old jalopy and performing.
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It is a film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, shot in Technicolor. The staggering amount of talent performing in the festival included Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, Music/LouisArmstrong, and the best gospel singer to ever live, Mahalia Jackson. Music/ChuckBerry showed up to inject some rock into the jazz festival, and performs a blistering rendition of his then-new single "Sweet Little Sixteen". Interpolated throughout the film are scenes staged for the movie of a Dixieland jazz band traveling around Newport in an old jalopy and performing.
performing.[[note]]Sadly, some of the other great acts at the festival, like Music/DukeEllington and Music/MilesDavis, didn't make it into the movie.[[/note]]
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One of the first feature-length concert films, although not ''the'' first (that would be 1948 film ''Concert Magic''). Compare 1940s short film ''Film/JamminTheBlues''; drummer Jo Jones appears in both.
Director Bert Stern is better known as a still photographer who shot Creator/MarilynMonroe's iconic 1962 nude pictorial, "The LastSitting".
Sitting". ''Jazz on a Summer's Day'' was [[OneBookAuthor his only film]].
Director Bert Stern is better known as a still photographer who shot Creator/MarilynMonroe's iconic 1962 nude pictorial, "The Last
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''Jazz on a Summer's Day'' is a 1960 concert film directed by Bert Stern, with jazz record producer George Avakian credited as musical director.
It is a film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, shot in Technicolor. The staggering amount of talent performing in the festival included Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, Music/LouisArmstrong, and the best gospel singer to ever live, Mahalia Jackson. Music/ChuckBerry showed up to inject some rock into the jazz festival, and performs a blistering rendition of his then-new single "Sweet Little Sixteen". Interpolated throughout the film are scenes staged for the movie of a Dixieland jazz band traveling around Newport in an old jalopy and performing.
One of the first feature-length concert films, although not ''the'' first (that would be 1948 film ''Concert Magic''). Compare 1940s short film ''Film/JamminTheBlues''; drummer Jo Jones appears in both. Director Bert Stern is better known as a still photographer who shot Creator/MarilynMonroe's iconic 1962 nude pictorial, "The Last Sitting".
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!!Tropes:
* ConcertFilm: A murderer's row of jazz artists on stage, with detours to rock (Chuck Berry) and gospel (Mahalia Jackson). Does not qualify as {{Rockumentary}} as there are no documentary tropes like a {{Narrator}} or TalkingHeads.
* {{Dramatization}}: When it came time to assemble the theatrical cut the producers became convinced that there weren't enough audience shots. So many of the audience shots seen in the film were recorded well after the fact, with people brought in and seated on artificial grass to watch a rough cut of the movie.
* TheEnd: The first credit in the film simply says "Jazz on a Summer's Day". At the end there's a credit in the same font saying "End of a Summer's Day", before the closing credits roll.
* HitlerCam: Much of the concert scenes are shot with cameras from ground level, causing the artists to loom above as they perform onstage.
* IronicJuxtaposition: What apparently is a guy on the radio, talking about the need to drive safely during the festival, is played over a shot of a sports car making an aggressive high-speed turn and cutting in front of another car.
* MelismaticVocals: Mahalia Jackson's trademark, which she does during her performance. ("Didn't it ra-a-a-a-a-in?")
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The last shot shows the Dixieland jazz band zipping away on the coast road in their jalopy.
* TheOner: The first performance is a nearly three-minute unbroken, static camera shot from stage right, showing saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre.
* {{Scatting}}: Louis Armstrong, the TropeMaker for scatting, indulges in it during his set.
* SceneryPorn: The America's Cup yachting race was going on in Newport at the same time as the festival. There are several amazing shots of yachts sailing on the sun-dappled waters of the bay.
* SmokingIsCool: The guy rehearsing on cello in a hotel room, who lights up a smoke, and continues to play as a cloud of blue smoke envelops him.
It is a film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, shot in Technicolor. The staggering amount of talent performing in the festival included Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, Music/LouisArmstrong, and the best gospel singer to ever live, Mahalia Jackson. Music/ChuckBerry showed up to inject some rock into the jazz festival, and performs a blistering rendition of his then-new single "Sweet Little Sixteen". Interpolated throughout the film are scenes staged for the movie of a Dixieland jazz band traveling around Newport in an old jalopy and performing.
One of the first feature-length concert films, although not ''the'' first (that would be 1948 film ''Concert Magic''). Compare 1940s short film ''Film/JamminTheBlues''; drummer Jo Jones appears in both. Director Bert Stern is better known as a still photographer who shot Creator/MarilynMonroe's iconic 1962 nude pictorial, "The Last Sitting".
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!!Tropes:
* ConcertFilm: A murderer's row of jazz artists on stage, with detours to rock (Chuck Berry) and gospel (Mahalia Jackson). Does not qualify as {{Rockumentary}} as there are no documentary tropes like a {{Narrator}} or TalkingHeads.
* {{Dramatization}}: When it came time to assemble the theatrical cut the producers became convinced that there weren't enough audience shots. So many of the audience shots seen in the film were recorded well after the fact, with people brought in and seated on artificial grass to watch a rough cut of the movie.
* TheEnd: The first credit in the film simply says "Jazz on a Summer's Day". At the end there's a credit in the same font saying "End of a Summer's Day", before the closing credits roll.
* HitlerCam: Much of the concert scenes are shot with cameras from ground level, causing the artists to loom above as they perform onstage.
* IronicJuxtaposition: What apparently is a guy on the radio, talking about the need to drive safely during the festival, is played over a shot of a sports car making an aggressive high-speed turn and cutting in front of another car.
* MelismaticVocals: Mahalia Jackson's trademark, which she does during her performance. ("Didn't it ra-a-a-a-a-in?")
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The last shot shows the Dixieland jazz band zipping away on the coast road in their jalopy.
* TheOner: The first performance is a nearly three-minute unbroken, static camera shot from stage right, showing saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre.
* {{Scatting}}: Louis Armstrong, the TropeMaker for scatting, indulges in it during his set.
* SceneryPorn: The America's Cup yachting race was going on in Newport at the same time as the festival. There are several amazing shots of yachts sailing on the sun-dappled waters of the bay.
* SmokingIsCool: The guy rehearsing on cello in a hotel room, who lights up a smoke, and continues to play as a cloud of blue smoke envelops him.
