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A Great Day in Harlem

Dir. Jean Bach·1994·1h 0m

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.

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A Great Day in Harlem

A Great Day in Harlem (1994)

Jean Bach

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1h 0m
Cross-source blend ~66/100

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United States of America

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6.6/10

10 votes

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66/100 blend

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Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~66/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

Quincy Jones

Self - Narrator

Dizzy Gillespie

Self

Sonny Rollins

Self

Buck Clayton

Self

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