This video honoring the Newport Jazz Festival combines footage from the musical event with highlights of the 1958 America's Cup Race. Acclaimed as one of the best jazz films ever... more
Dayreveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita O'Day intermingle wi...
Dayreveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita O'Day intermingle wi...
Jazz On A Summer's Day
Jazz On A Summer's Day is acclaimed as being one of the most exciting jazz concerts ever ... more
recorded, a timeless record of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Bert Stern recreates the look and style of his acclaimed still photographs into his own motion picture documenting some of the stunning images of live jazz ever brought to the silver screen. Photographed like an Impressionist painting, Stern let the artist and the people who attended Newport 1985 do the talking.
Dayreveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita O'Day intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. There's a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lord's Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the America's Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion.On the DVD:Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monk's quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, it's worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse
Jazz On A Summer's Day (+CD) (Various Artists) (DVD)
Product details
Genre: Musicals & Music Films - Jazz
Classification: Exempt
Production Year: 1958
Running Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Plot: Filmed in 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival. Features Chuck Berry - 'Sweet Little Sixteen', Dinah Washington - 'All Of Me', Louis Armstrong - 'Tiger Rag', Thelonius Monk - 'Blue Monk', Anita O'Day - Sweet Georgia Brown' and many more.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): Snapper Music; Pinnacle Vision
Release date: 10/09/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: SDVD 001
Barcode: 0803415900176
Performer: Chuck Berry, Mahalia Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Jack Teagarden
Music Performer: Sonny Stitt, Chuck Berry, Jack Teagarden, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, George Shearing, Louis Armstrong, Big Maybelle, Anita O'Day, Chico Hamilton
Languages
Main Language: English
DVD Description
This video honoring the Newport Jazz Festival combines footage from the musical event with highlights of the 1958 America's Cup Race. Acclaimed as one of the best jazz films ever made, JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY captures some legendary performances by jazz greats such as Thelonius Monk and Louis Armstrong in a whimsically beautiful manner, transporting the viewer back to that clear day in 1958. Director Bert Stern's camera not only captures the humanity and brilliance of these jazz legends, it also creates an aura of warm nostalgia for that very special era in American history.
Technical information
Special Features: Biographies Of Artists, CD ROM Catalogue, Documentary
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English
Professional reviews
Review: Ranked #7 in Entertainment Weekly's "BEST VIDEOS OF 2000" (Entertainment Weekly, pp.120-3, 22/12/2000)
"...Part musical time capsule and part chamber of commerce featurette for a lovely '50s town..." (USA Today, p.6E, 01/05/1998)
Advantages: Original script.Fantastic performances.entertaining and charming Disadvantages: Not for average rom-com lovers
...I have been waiting for this since I saw its trailer after it has gone to several film festivals.Being a lover of lovey dovey films, i was sure i won't be let down by this film! Though i must say,it turned out to be more than what i expected-a rather honest depiction of today's romance. Gone are the days when a boy meets girl,fall in love,get married and live happily ever after.
The narrator warns us in his funny voice that this is not a love story and it actually is much more than that. I loved the way the film progresses,the director chose to make it interesting by showing us the days in the bracket,1 being the day he first met her.The film doesn't move chronologically but is rather random,jumbling from forward to backward at times.
Summer is the new assitant of Tom's boss and he likes her from the first day.Its a modern take...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Advantages: You won't get bored of it Disadvantages: Could come out with more songs
...Guess what?
Summer's here!! And its time to P A R T Y!!
Well don't just stop there and think whats it gonna be like....if you care enough to shake a leg with your partner and bring back those memories of allsuch summers together...
then you have it.
Your wish has been fulfilled because you have all those tunes packed as a collection of this wonderful Cd set. You want it you got it dance beats...reggae ..Pop and the right rhythm.
You really won't have to give yourself a reason to dance as you play this On and On..
Yes there could have been more hits of the era gone by but that would give you a reason to look for another party cd set.
Well go ahead and Own it....
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Advantages: Fantastic Disadvantages: There are none
...A History of Jazz just has got to be one of the most comprehensive programmes on the history of jazz that I have ever come across.
It is subtitled Bluesland A portrait In American Music. It shows the very heavy Blues influence on the original forms of jazz.
The first section is called: Everybody got the Blues. It starts with a haunting Blues refrain, as the camera look along some railroad tracks to some plaintive blues music. The camera then shows some typical scenes of life in the south of America. A steam train, black people working on the farms and playing and singing the blues.
Then, comes the introduction to the programme, proper, by the host, Keith David, with Albert Murray and Robert Palmer.
Keith David points out that everyone gets the blues, and that everyone develops methods of coping with the blues. His favourite...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
helpful 02.01.2006
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