Bob Brookmeyer

Swinging jazz trombonist and prolific, classically influenced composerThe appeal of most jazz movies has rarely spread beyond the cognoscenti, but Bert Stern's captivating 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day quickly acquired the popular status it has retained to this day. Stern's subject was the 1958 Newport jazz festival – an unjazzily sunlit, luxuriously lazy setting for an animated all-star cast that included Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson and Chuck Berry. Despite tha...

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