Flashback: #ChuckBerry Performs at 1958 Newport Jazz Festival

By Patrick Doyle

march 18, 2017

In 1958, Chuck Berry played Rhode Island's Newport Jazz Festival. He was a rare rock & roll act alongside acts like Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Louis Armstrong and Dinah Washington. The festival was immortalized in Bert Stern's remarkable documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day. The most stunning moment of the film is Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen." He begins his performance relatively reserved, playing a plodding version of the single with the house band. But soon, he loosens up, swinging his hips, hoisting his Gibson guitar up, duck-walking across the stage over a clarinet solo.

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