``Jazz on a Summer's Day'' A legendary jazz festival captured by an up-and-coming photographer.

"Jazz on a Summer's Day" synopsis

A documentary about the Newport Jazz Festival, the largest music festival in the American jazz world. Louis Armstrong (Satchmo), Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry... The up-and-coming artists of the time captured the overwhelmingly powerful performances of legendary musicians and the fashionable audience enjoying them. Bert Stern was famous as a photographer. This is a ``hot'' work full of mysterious charm, as if each scene is a completed photograph.

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• A groundbreaking work that changed the course of concert films.
• Fashion photographer Bert Stern's innovative endeavors
• Variety of songs ① - Thelonious Monk's piano, Anita O'Dea's singing voice
• Variety of songs ② ~ Satchmo and Mahalia to climax

A groundbreaking work that changed the course of concert films.

In recent years, various classics from the past have been revived in 4K versions, and a digitally restored 4K version of the jazz masterpiece ``Jazz on a Summer's Day'' (1959) has also been released.

This film captures the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, which featured jazz giants such as Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk. It also had a great influence on the rock concert films that were made later.

``NME Guide to Rock Cinema'' (written by Fred Deller, published by Hamlin Paperbacks), a rock movie guidebook created in the 1980s by the British rock magazine NME (New Musical Express), includes ``Midsummer' '. The following is the description of ``A Jazz on a Summer's Day'': ``An unforgettable and important documentary.It was a precursor to subsequent concert films such as `` Monterey Pop '' (1968) and `` Woodstock '' (1970).''

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``Monterey Pop'' (1968, directed by D.A. Pennebaker) is a film that documents the rock festival held in Monterey, USA in 1967. Meanwhile, ``Woodstock'' (1970, directed by Michael Wadley) is a documentary about the groundbreaking concert held in 1969 at Woodstock, a suburb of New York. After the late 1960s, when the anti-war and civil rights movements gained momentum, the number of free-style concert films increased, and in the late 1970s, historical masterpieces such as Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (1978) were released. was born.

The origin of such concert films was ``Jazz on a Summer's Day.'' In the American film industry of the 1950s, Hollywood studio films had overwhelming power (by the way, the Oscar-winning film in 1959 was the blockbuster `` Ben-Hur ''). Unlike the trend of films at the time, ``Midnight's Jazz'' had a modest budget, but the creator's free sense was utilized, and there were hidden seeds of creativity that would change later films.

Fashion photographer Bert Stern's innovative endeavors