Jazz on a Summer's Day

Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Big Maybelle, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson (starring)
Bert Stern, Aram Avakian (directors)
Arnold Perl (screenwriter)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 film, showing Thelonious Monk at the piano. Stamp with the film's title in Spanish on the verso, along with cropping annotations in holograph ink.

A concert film shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. The film featured performances by the Thelonious Monk Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Sonny Stitt, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and many others.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning on the right edge of the recto.

National Film Registry.


[Book #157310]