Jazz on a Summer's Day

In 1958, Bert Stern took a film crew to Newport, Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival. No film has ever presented a greater array of talent in a more complementary fashion. Thelonious Monk builds a lovely version of “Blue Monk” and Anita O’Day sings “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Tea for Two,” with Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong performing “Rockin’ Chair.” Eric Dolphy plays with the Chico Hamilton Quartet, and Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Chuck Berry and the George Shearing Quintet also perform. What a movie! –Telluride Film Festival