Documentary / Music /

Score: 72.3%( 26 votes )

Overview: Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, 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.

Cast:

Louis Armstrong
Self

Mahalia Jackson
Self

Gerry Mulligan
Self

Dinah Washington
Self

Chico Hamilton
Self

Anita O'Day
Self

George Shearing
Self

Jimmy Giuffre
Self

Chuck Berry
Self

Jack Teagarden
Self

Thelonious Monk
Self

Big Maybelle
Self

Sonny Stitt
Self

Eli's Chosen Six
Self

David Bailie
Self

Danny Barcelona
Self

Bob Brookmeyer
Self

Buck Clayton
Self

Bill Crow
Self

Eric Dolphy
Self

Art Farmer
Self

Harold Gaylor
Self

Nathan Gershman
Self

Terri Gibbs
Self

Urbie Green
Self

Henry Grimes
Self

Jim Hall
Self

Peanuts Hucko
Self

Jo Jones
Self

Ray Mosca
Self

Armando Peraza
Self

Max Roach
Self

Rudy Rutherford
Self

Sal Salvador
Self

Willis Conover
Interviewer

Patricia Bosworth
Woman in Audience (uncredited)