A Great Day in Harlem

A Great Day in Harlem

60 mins | Documentary, Music | Sept. 27, 1994

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.

A Great Day in Harlem

60 mins | Documentary, Music | Sept. 27, 1994

A Great Day in Harlem
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Castle Hill Productions, Flo-Bert Ltd., New York Foundation for the Arts
Original title A Great Day in Harlem
Directors Jean Bach
Writers

Cast

Quincy Jones

as (self)

Dizzy Gillespie

as (self)

Sonny Rollins

as (self)

Buck Clayton

as (self)