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The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
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- TriviaBert Stern, when trying to retrieve his archives from Spain, offered the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, all the footage of the film, along with the outtakes, in return for their paying the outstanding $50,000 storage bill and shipping them back to New York.
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Louis Armstrong: I was at a little Italian trumpet player's house, and his mother was a Countess, well they was makin' that spaghetti and we was wailin', you know. In this big ol' dinin' room they had this table and up in the ceilin' they had Mark Anthony and Cleo and all the cats that they painted. Lookin' down on you as if to say, "Man, you shore can eat!"
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Louis Armstrong: Well, we have a lot of fun travelin', man.
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See Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Mahalia Jackson among others entertain in Jazz on a Summer's Day
Anita O'Day singing "Sweet Georgia Brown". Dinah Washington warbling "All of Me" while also playing the xylophone. Chuck Berry playing guitar rocking to "Sweet Little Sixteen" while also doing his famous duck walk. Thelonious Monk on the piano. Gerry Mulligan with his band. Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden dueting on "Rocking Chair". And Mahalia Jackson ending the program on "The Lord's Prayer". All those I've cited are highlights of what I've seen in this great documentary of the Newport Jazz Festival of 1958 which ran at the same time as the America's Cup boat race of which some of that is also shown. And seeing all those shots of audience members having the time of their lives were also fine visually especially when one was seen singing along with one of Sachmo's songs. The whole thing was an overwhelming treat to watch so all I'll now say is Jazz on a Summer's Day is highly recommended.
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- Feb 4, 2012
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