Jazz on a Summer’s Day U

★★★★ – Sunday Times

World-renowned photographer Bert Stern's immaculate film of the 1958 Newport Jazz festival is an intoxicating blend of incredible jazz and hazy Americana, heralded as one of the best live music documentaries ever made.

It features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including; Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry – introducing rock n roll to a bemused jazz band – Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful mesmerising rendition of the Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.

Stern’s atmospheric stylish cinematography captures a hip fashionable 50s America in thrall to the music by night and enjoying some laid back yachting by day. A time capsule of musical performance and 1950s elegance before the momentous cultural changes of the '60s.