Jazz on a Summer's Day

The feature-length documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day highlights the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

The musical numbers performed by artists such as Anita O'Day, Mahalia Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden are interspersed with scenes of Newport Harbor and yachts preparing for the America's Cup. Photographer Bert Stern (best known for his extended Vogue magazine photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe which he later published as "The Last Sitting") directed the film with additional cinematography by Courtney Hesfela and Raymond Phelan.

Jazz on a Summer's Day was added to the National Film Registry in 1999.