Documentary: 'Newport Jazz Festival—1962'

This forgotten film captures the intellectual class just before the counterculture revolution

I’m sure you’ve seen Jazz on a Summer’s Day, the 1959 documentary directed by Aram Avakian and Bert Stern, and filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. The color feature was a breakthrough for jazz. For the first time, audiences were given a vivid taste of what top jazz talent looked and sounded like in a bucolic setting.

I’m also betting that you’ve …