Watch Anytime • Virtual Screening Room: JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY

JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY
Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society
Streaming tickets now available!
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition or The Lord’s Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning. The film has been beautifully and extensively restored in 4K from the best surviving vault elements by IndieCollect.
Dir: Bert Stern / 1959 / US / 85 min

“Gorgeous. Probably the best feature-length jazz concert movie ever made.” — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

“Filmed with a rare artistry, a rare attention to making images of music that are themselves musical.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“An exquisite historical document. The film is where the American concert documentary genre begins.” — Philip Eil, VICE