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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Train and the River |
Jimmy Giuffre: composer, performer
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Blue Monk |
Thelonious Monk: composer, performer
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Loose Walk |
Johnny Richards: composer
Sonny Stitt: composer, performer
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Blue Sands |
Buddy Collette: composer
Chico Hamilton: performer
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Sweet Georgia Brown |
Ben Bernie: composer
Maceo Pinkard: composer
Kenneth Casey: writer
Anita O'Day: performer
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Tea for Two |
Vincent Youmans: composer
Irving Caesar: writer
Anita O'Day: performer
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Rondo |
George Shearing: performer
Carlos Federico: composer
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All of Me |
Gerald Marks: writer
Seymour Simons: writer
Dinah Washington: performer
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Catch as Catch Can |
Gerry Mulligan: composer, performer
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I Ain't Mad at You |
Big Maybelle: performer
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Sweet Little Sixteen |
Chuck Berry: writer, performer
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Up a Lazy River |
Louis Armstrong: performer
Hoagy Carmichael: writer
Sidney Arodin: composer
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Tiger Rag |
Louis Armstrong: performer
Nick LaRocca: composer
Edwin B. Edwards: composer
Larry Shields: composer
Henry Ragas: composer
Harry DeCosta: writer
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Rockin' Chair |
Louis Armstrong: performer
Hoagy Carmichael: writer
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When The Saints Go Marching In |
Louis Armstrong: performer
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Walk All Over God's Heaven |
Mahalia Jackson: performer
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Didn't It Rain |
Mahalia Jackson: performer
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The Lord's Prayer |
Mahalia Jackson: performer
Albert Hay Malotte: composer
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