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List Price: $29.95Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781567302141
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1567302149
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 14, 2000
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 24048
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
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Editorial Review:
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Part concert documentary, part pop-cultural time capsule, Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day chronicles the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with an approach as deceptively relaxed, even impulsive, as the music itself. Still photographer Stern sidesteps more formal documentary conventions such as narrative voiceovers to wander purposefully from festival stage to boarding-house jam sessions, taking in the parallel color and motion of the America's Cup preparations when he isn't capturing rich color footage of the performances and the celebratory mood of the concertgoers. In the process, he documents American jazz at a notably golden moment in its development--diverse, adventurous, and still broadly popular, this was jazz not yet under the shadow of rock and youth culture, played by an integrated artistic community a few short years away from social and political turmoil that would boil divisively to the surface during the '60s. To say Stern was rolling film in a jazz Camelot is overstatement, but only slightly so.
Stern's circular approach and wonderful eye achieve a breezy languor at the expense of more comprehensive coverage of the festival's bumper crop of strong jazz, blues, and gospel musicians. Perhaps inevitably, the camera lingers on Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and George Shearing. Avid fans of later styles may be frustrated by the fleeting glimpses of other musicians such as Eric Dolphy and Art Farmer, or the honor roll of classic jazz stylists whose Newport sets weren't included in the film, but such omissions seem forgivable, if not necessary, to Stern's serendipitous design. --Sam Sutherland
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See title of review.Also considered a landmark in documentary fil making in and of itself.
Chazz
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Ahh, you Boomers can take your Woodstock and your Monterrey and most definitely your Altamont (*shudder*) - THIS is the music festival I'D loved to have been at: The Newport Jazz Festival of 1958. It's something of a sour old Gen-Xer's solace to think that it's unlikely the real event could have borne much resemblance to this utterly gorgeous film made by the great photographer Bert Stern, all cherry-red and sea-blue and glowing with an unreal light. Stern (most famous for the "last session" with ... Read More
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Jazz on a Summer's Day captures a day in time that for me is magic. Each musician at the top of his or her game, set for all who lived through that era to enjoy again.
Those too young to have known this time will enjoy seeing some of the Jazz legends of the era.
The Newport Jazz Festival was a legendary meeting of the new and the old.
The open car scenes at the beginning and at the end capture the spirit of the times!
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First of all, let me tell you how thrilled I am by this DVD - it has amazing musical moment with, for instance, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Mahalia Jackson and Louis Armstrong shining very brightly (although, yes, the Monk number is marred by some mood shots and other interventions...), Satchmo and Teagarden crooning and scatting magnificently... Actually, I don't think I've seen a more beautiful footage of Armstrong's performance; he was still on the top in the 50s and Bert Stern portraits him beautifully, ... Read More
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I don't normally buy DVDs, especially documentaries, since usually I feel after I've seen it once or twice its time to move on. Particularly music - I'd just as soon listen to the CD - the movie is usually a distraction. But this one is exceptional and worth buying and seeing again and again. It really is like being there and the mood of the music is complemented by the scenes of the audience and street scenes.
The colors are very good, and without any plot or voiceover to get in the way (though ... Read More
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