Jazz on a Summer's Day is a
1959 documentary film set at the
Newport Jazz Festival[?], mixing images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival. Performers included
Jimmy Giuffre[?],
Thelonious Monk,
Henry Grimes[?],
Sonny Stitt[?],
Sal Salvador[?],
Anita O'Day,
George Shearing[?],
Dinah Washington,
Gerry Mulligan[?],
Big Maybelle[?],
Chuck Berry,
Chico Hamilton[?],
Louis Armstrong,
Jack Teagarden,
Mahalia Jackson,
Bob Brookmeyer[?],
Buck Clayton[?],
Willis Conover[?],
Art Farmer[?],
Jo Jones[?] and
Armando Pareza[?].
The movie was written by Albert D'Annibale[?] and Arnold Perl[?] and directed by Bert Stern[?]. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.