Sesión 6: The Cry of Jazz + Jazz on a Summer’s Day

David E. James had something significant to say on the subject, but curiously enough he put it into a footnote: its reproduction in the medium of film of the formal and social qualities of jazz is even more significant in indicating the terms by which popular Black film could have developed, given a different situation for the medium in Black society generally. Some might also be excited to find Bert Stern on that list, although he’s mainly remembered as one of the world’s most celebrated fashion photographers and masters of portraiture, with his lone film, Jazz on a Summer‘s Day (1960), having turned from a late screening staple to specialist fare. OLAF MÖLLER