Sep 2nd   
Jazz on a Summer's Day** (U)
(Firstsite, Colchester)

(US 1959)
Galaxy Attractions/New Yorker Films. 85m.

Filmed highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz festival, interspersed by footage of the nearby America Cup trials, serving to symbolise how yachting is, like jazz, without any apparent rules of its own. As invaluable and genuine a record of the middle class jazz audience of the 1950s as of the musicians themselves, brought to vivid life in this 4K restoration.

w: Albert D'Annibale, Aramam Avakian;
p/ed: Aram Avakian;
d/ph: Bert Stern;
s: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Buck Clayton, George Shearing, Dinah Washington, Chuck Berry, and others