Jazz On A Summer’s DayU
Bert Stern’s 1958 concert film documents the Newport Jazz Festival, and is widely considered the first feature-length concert documentary. It captures performances by Thelonious Monk, Anita O’Day, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington and Mahalia Jackson, cut together with footage of the town and its crowds. The result is a portrait of the United States on the cusp of the Kennedy era.
Reviews
‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day is as quietly vital a political document as it is a gloriously entertaining sprint through a long weekend that changed the music industry forever.’
★★★★ Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
‘This is one of the most pleasurable of all concert films.’
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Book tickets
| Friday 14 August | 9.00pm | Book tickets |
| Monday 17 August | 6.15pm | Book tickets |
What else is on?
Today (Thursday 13th August)
14:30
The Invite 15
1h 47m
17:00
The Odyssey 15
2h 52m
20:30
Blackbird 15
1h 28mTomorrow (Friday 14th August)
15:15
The Summer Book PG
1h 35m17:30
The Odyssey 15
2h 52m
21:00
Jazz on a Summer's Day U
1h 23mPlan your visit
Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road.We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We only show a few adverts – less than most cinemas – and we only play a couple of trailers, so please don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!