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A Great Day in Harlem(Movie, 1994)

1h | Genres: Documentary, Music
A Great Day in HarlemRating: 3.6/5 (with 33 votes)
A Great Day in Harlem is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Jean Bach about the photograph of the same name. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Director Jean Bach acquired an original home movie showing the 1958 photo shoot from musician Milt Hinton. She used Hinton's home video as the basis for her hour-long documentary. In a piece published in The New Yorker, jazz critic Whitney Balliett praised Bach's film as "a brilliant, funny, moving, altogether miraculous documentary." Jean Bach described how, upon the film's release, a number of similar photographs employed the "A Great Day in..." theme. Hugh Hefner assembled Hollywood-area musicians for "A Great Day in Hollywood" in conjunction with a sneak preview of A Great Day in Harlem. Soon after, "A Great Day in Philadelphia" included musicians such as Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson and Ray Bryant. During the filming of Kansas City, musicians including Jay McShann posed for "A Great Day in Kansas City." A multi-page supplement in The Star-Ledger featured "A Great Day in Jersey," while a Dutch photograph was titled "A Great Day in Haarlem." The trend spread to other styles of music, with Houston blues musicians posing for "A Great Day in Hous... ()
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Awards & Nominations for A Great Day in Harlem

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

About 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Harlem
Original language: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), French (FR), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/27/1994
Cast: Robert Benton, Count Basie, Art Blakey
Director: Jean Bach
Keywords: woman director
Revenue: 527,034 USD

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:141993, Added: 03/30/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024