Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, 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 a particular time and place.

Louis Armstrong
as Self

Mahalia Jackson
as Self

Gerry Mulligan
as Self

Dinah Washington
as Self

Chico Hamilton
as Self

Anita O'Day
as Self

George Shearing
as Self

Jimmy Giuffre
as Self

Chuck Berry
as Self

Jack Teagarden
as Self