Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.
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| VarietyVariety StaffIt's Americana, and a document of its time as well via observation of audiences and the life surrounding the Newport event, not least the neatly-integrated footage concerning the America Cup Yacht Races. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodySeveral of the performances are among the treasures of filmed music; all of them, whatever their musical merit, are filmed with a rare artistry, a rare attention to making images of music that are themselves musical. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherAs generous a dish of top jazz music as any cat could take in one gulp. |
| AV ClubKeith PhippsJazz bounds from strength to strength, stylishly immortalizing transcendently beautiful music on a glorious day, suggesting in the process that film might have no higher purpose. |
| User ReviewAmber CWhat a marvelous piece of filmmaking. A rich assemblage of jazz, fashion, and the good life of 1959. Love, love, love viewing the fashions, and the close-ups of the performers and of course some unbelievable music recordings. Plus the water and sky shots accompanying the music are brilliant. Unbelievable for being a 50 year old film. Historically important and not to be missed by cinematography students. |
| User ReviewDan LI liked the fantastic jazz performances, but equally good were the off performance scenes of people partying and the audience. This film might make a jazz fan out of anyone. |
| User ReviewJochen WI've enjoyed watching this film (doc) for over the last few years since hearing about it. Great visuals, great musical performances, rent it or buy it like me. |
| User Reviewraul aBeautiful photography captures a fantastic music festival. Some of it staged, yes, but, that doesn't detract from the feeling of the time and place. There's nothing like jazz on a hot, bright, summer's day. |
| User ReviewMark BBert Stern is brilliant, and I love how much he focuses on the crowd, with warmth and humor that is uncanny for a documentary, and also manages to capture the atmosphere of 1959 Newport... not to mention the classic jazz, of course! And it's not marred by voice-overs, which is even better. |
| User ReviewCharles CWow. If you like jazz, love jazz, or if you're not even familiar with it enough to have an opinion...SEE THIS FILM! Great to watch, or have on for background noise. |
