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Other officers chosen in the College-wide election Tuesday and Wednesday include Patience Byram '62, of Henry House and Abingdon, Ill., vice-president; Barbara J. Graf '62 of Warner House and Minneapolis, Minn., National Student Association delegate; and Georgette M. Ramos '63, of Everett House and Newport, R.I., secretary...
Doubtless inspired by Hollywood's success at integrating jazz and movies, a photographer named Bert Stern did some experimenting at the 1958 Jazz Festival in Newport, and the results are intriguing. Stern's film, Jazz on a Summer's Day, is a series of close-detail impressions taken in and around the Festival, using the jazz as background. And despite a noticeable uncertainty of purpose, it's an exceedingly fine...
Stern lets his camera roam, picking up the boats reflected in weird patterns on the rippling water of Newport Harbor, a sedate matron startled by the sudden appearance of an amateur brass combo, or a bartender's fruitless battle with explosive beer bottles. The music is well-integrated throughout, reflecting the tasteful editing of Stern and Aram Avakian. The cumulative effect is excellent...
Stern and Avakian have edited 8,000 feet of film out of a shooting of 130,000 feet; the material is well selected and beautifully coordinated. Come prepared to participate at least to the extent of snapping your fingers, and buy the Newport '58 record series, which duplicates the sound track...
...camerawork on the musicians. The closeup of Brookmeyer masked behind sunglasses and Guiffre bouncing energetically around the bandshell is a treat; so is the intense concentration of Hamilton during his solo. It is a commonplace of jazz that much rapport is lost in a large all-star program like Newport, and shots like these more than compensate...