Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.

The film has been beautifully and extensively restored in 4K from the best surviving vault elements by IndieCollect.

The Sidewalk Cinema is a FREE outdoor event that screens films onto the storefront of Maysles Documentary Center. We provide 10 socially distanced seats and require you to wear a mask and uphold our social distancing guidelines. Food and drink are welcome but please take the trash with you to keep our sidewalks clean!

This screening is part of:

Made In Harlem: Remembering The Renaissance (2020)

Made In Harlem: Remembering The Renaissance, on the occasion of the Harlem Renaissance’s landmark 100th anniversary, uses the wide-ranging lens of documentary film to capture and commemorate, explore and expand the many layers of experience that made up--and continue to make up--the Harlem Renaissance. The series brings together a variety of mostly nonfictional film sources to examine visual representations of the Renaissance and the lasting influence of these representations on political and artistic output, collective memory, present-day black experiences, and the Harlem of today. This series is supported by the West Harlem Development Corporation