Summer Shorts: Jazz on a Summer's Day
August 23, 2017 6:30PM - 8:30PM at House of Wax
Wednesdays in August we’re bringing some of New York’s finest film experts to the Steven A Schwarzman Building, where they'll present one-time-only movie nights that they’ve curated from the Library for the Performing Arts’ 60-plus-year-old collection of 16mm films. Get out of the heat and watch wonderful and strange docs, shorts, tv movies, and features selected and presented in-person by curators from the Library for the Performing Arts, Alamo Drafthouse, Maysles Documentary Center, and the Criterion Collection.
August 23rd's program is curated and presented in-person by Edo Choi, programmer at Maysles Documentary Center. The 1960 film "Jazz on a Summer’s Day" is one of the first music-festival films. Directed by famed photographer Bert Stern, it documents the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and features performances and appearances by: Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Anita O’Day, Sonny Stitt, Gerry Mulligan, and Eric Dolphy. Highlights include Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden’s duet on “Rocking Chair” and Mahalia Jackson’s gospel climax.
Don't miss the rest of our series! Find info here:
8/9: Summer Shorts: New York Essence
8/16: Summer Shorts: Youth Run Wild
8/30: Summer Shorts: Sci-Fi TV Movies