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How Long Is “Jazz on a Summer's Day”?

Name: Jazz on a Summer's Day
Genre: documentary
Released: 1960
Duration: 81 min
Cast: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington, Jack Teagarden

1h 21m runtime

19601h 21mdocumentary

Documentary film with a runtime of 81 minutes, released in 1960. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 21m

Minutes81

One SittingYes

With Break1h 33m

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Jazz on a Summer's Day is a priceless record of the 1958 Jazz Festival at Newport, Rhode Island. It just doesn't get better than this. We see Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Chuck Berry, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, Jack Teagarden, Sonny Stitt, Chico Hamilton, Anita O'Day and Big Maybelle, so we'd stay glued to the screen even if the film was poorly made. But it isn't: director Bert Stern not only does a masterful job of filming these imperishable greats at their very best, but he manages to make the whole enterprise fascinatingly fluid and thoroughly cinematic. Even non-jazz buffs will be exhilarated by Jazz on a Summer's Day.

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Runtime1h 21m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break1h 33m

Movie Facts

Release Year1960

Runtime1h 21m

LanguageEnglish

Genresdocumentary

DirectorBert Stern

ProducerBert Stern

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