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.
| Release Date: | Sep 1994 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Documentary / Music |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. |
| Cast: | Quincy Jones (Himself / Narrator), Dizzy Gillespie (Himself), Sonny Rollins (Himself), Buck Clayton (Himself), Art Blakey (Himself), Hank Jones (Himself), Art Farmer (Himself), Johnny Griffin (Himself), Milt Hinton (Himself), Chubby Jackson (Himself), Scoville Browne (Himself), Felix Maxwell (Himself), Paula Morris (Herself), Taft Jordan Jr. (Himself), Everard Powell (Himself), Marian McPartland (Herself), Bud Freeman (Himself), Max Kaminsky (Himself), Eddie Locke (Himself), Gerry Mulligan (Himself), Benny Golson (Himself), Ernie Wilkins (Himself), Elaine Lorillard (Herself), Nat Hentoff (Himself), Mona Hinton (Herself), Robert Altschuler (Himself), Mike Lipskin (Himself), Steve Frankfurt (Himself), Horace Silver (Himself), Henry 'Red' Allen (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Count Basie (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Robert Benton (Himself (uncredited)), Vic Dickenson (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Roy Eldridge (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Sonny Greer (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Coleman Hawkins (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Jo Jones (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Gene Krupa (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Charles Mingus (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Thelonious Monk (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Jimmy Rushing (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Pee Wee Russell (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Zutty Singleton (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Stuff Smith (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Willie 'The Lion' Smith (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Rex Stewart (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Maxine Sullivan (Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Lester Young (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)) |