A Great Day in Harlem

The Story and Sounds Behind the Most Famous Photo in the History of Jazz!

199460m6.6 (10)
DocumentaryMusicHistory

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.

Crew

TB

Terrell Braly

Producer

SS

Stuart Samuels

Producer

MS

Matthew Seig

Producer

JB

Jean Bach

Director

Cast

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Self - Narrator

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Self

Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

Self

BC

Buck Clayton

Self

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