A Great Day in Harlem
“The Story and Sounds Behind the Most Famous Photo in the History of Jazz!”
1994•1h 0m•6.6•Released
DocumentaryMusicHistory
Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a brownstone near the 125th street station. The documentary compiles interviews of many of the musicians in the photograph to talk about the day of the photograph, and it shows film footage taken that day by Milt Hinton and his wife.
Director
Jean Bach
Revenue
$1M
Languages
English
Studio
Castle Hill Productions
Cast
Quincy Jones
Self - Narrator
Dizzy Gillespie
Self
Sonny Rollins
Self
Buck Clayton
Self
Production
Company
Castle Hill Productions
Company
Flo-Bert Ltd.
Company
New York Foundation for the Arts
Producer
Stuart Samuels
Producer
Terrell Braly
Producer
Matthew Seig
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