Name: A Great Day in Harlem
Genre: History, Documentary, Music
Released: 1994-09-27
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Buck Clayton

About

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.

Theatrical

Sep 27, 1994

DVD / Blu-ray

Jan 3, 2006

Box Office

$527K

Director

Jean Bach

Producers

Stuart Samuels, Terrell Braly, Matthew Seig

Studio

Castle Hill Productions, Flo-Bert Ltd., New York Foundation for the Arts

Keywords

photographer jazz singer or musician music journalist photography music history old photograph woman director harlem, new york city black history day in a life jazz history hidden history memorable day one time event photo journalist