Bob Brookmeyer

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bert Stern
CAST:  Louis Armstrong  •  Mahalia Jackson  •  Gerry Mulligan  •  Dinah Washington

Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bert Stern
CAST:  Louis Armstrong  •  Mahalia Jackson  •  Gerry Mulligan  •  Dinah Washington

This Is Gary McFarland (2006)

Documentary film about the life and mysterious death of forgotten jazz arranger/composer Gary McFarland.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristian St. Clair
CAST:  Gary McFarland  •  Bob Brookmeyer  •  Antônio Carlos Jobim  •  Grady Tate

Documentary film about the life and mysterious death of forgotten jazz arranger/composer Gary McFarland.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristian St. Clair
CAST:  Gary McFarland  •  Bob Brookmeyer  •  Antônio Carlos Jobim  •  Grady Tate