The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Tag: Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Charly Records has released a special 60th-anniversary edition of Ben Stern’s acclaimed 1960 film, Jazz on…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Charly Records has released a special 60th-anniversary edition of Ben Stern’s acclaimed 1960 film, Jazz on…
Jazz on a Summer's Day is also credited for providing the template for countless concert films that followed it - such as D.A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop (1968) and Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock (1970). It mixes a fly-on-the-wall documentary approach with more surrealist flourishes, taking advantage of certain technological development that had facilitated documentary filmmaking and led to the rise of the cinema verité film movement. In 1999, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically signigicant."
The documentary was conceived by stills photographer Ben Stern, who redefined commercial photography in the United States and shot many iconic images of celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe's famous final Vogue magazine ones just six weeks before her death. Jazz on a Summer's Day would be his only directorial effort. This new DVD edition includes an interview with him, an introduction to Jazz on a Summer's Day, artist biographies and a photo gallery.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj_AfLJHGmE[/embed] Like this article? Get more when you