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Poster for A Great Day in Harlem

A Great Day in Harlem (1994)

★ 6.6/10 60 min Documentary, Music, History United States English
Director: Jean Bach
Streaming: Not available
The Story and Sounds Behind the Most Famous Photo in the History of Jazz!

Description

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.

Top Cast

Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones Self - Narrator
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Self
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Self
Buck Clayton Self

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