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A Great Day in Harlem

A Great Day in Harlem

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 27, 1994

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary, Music, History

User Score

62%

Original Title

A Great Day in Harlem

Production Companies

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

Director

Jean Bach

Revenue

$527,034

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.