A Great Day in Harlem
The Story and Sounds Behind the Most Famous Photo in the History of Jazz!
September 27, 1994
60 min
✓ Released 11655 days ago
Documentary
Music
History
6.6
User Score
10 votes
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Jean Bach
Runtime: 60 min
Revenue: $527,034
Top Cast
Quincy Jones
Self - Narrator
Dizzy Gillespie
Self
Sonny Rollins
Self
Buck Clayton
Self
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