- unitid
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{"value"=>"23820", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b21582048", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Great 1996", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1989-1996", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1989/1996"}
{"value"=>"1989-1993", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1989/1993"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"A Great Day in Harlem documentary collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"64 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"title\">A Great Day in Harlem</span> is an Oscar-nominated 1994 documentary directed by Jean Bach (1918 - 2013), a press agent, radio producer, jazz aficionado, and fixture of New York's jazz scene. The collection consists of sixty-four video recordings, which are the interviews conducted for the documentary from 1989 to 1996."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Bach, Jean, 1918-2013", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">A Great Day in Harlem</span> is a 1994 documentary directed by Jean Bach (September 27, 1918 – May 27, 2013), a press agent, radio producer, jazz aficionado, and fixture of New York's jazz scene. Through interviews and archival material, the film tells the story of Art Kane's photograph of the same name taken for <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span> magazine in Harlem on August 12, 1958. Assembled on 17 East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, the photograph is famous for capturing fifty-seven of the era's jazz greats in one photo. It is a feat that has not been replicated since as a snapshot of its time and during the heyday of the music.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of sixty-four video recordings, which are the thirty-three interviews conducted for the documentary from 1989 to 1996. These interviews are organized alphabetically by the subject's last name. The collection consists primarily of Bach's interviews with the surviving musicians pictured in the 1958 <span class=\"title\">Great Day in Harlem</span> photograph. It also includes interviews with musicians' family and friends, as well as the photographer and others who were working for <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span> magazine at the time. Each interviewee's relationship to the photograph is detailed in the item's content note.</p> <p>The musicians interviewed for the documentary are Art Blakey, Scoville Brown, Buck Clayton, Bud Freeman, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Milt Hinton, Chubby Jackson, Hank Jones, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Locke, Marian McPartland, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Sahib Shihab, and Horace Silver. Musicians' friends and family who were present for the photo shoot are also in the collection: Mona Hinton, wife of Milt Hinton; Taft Jordan, Jr., son of Taft Jordan; Mike Lipskin, friend of Willie \"the Lion\" Smith; Elaine Lorillard, friend of multiple pictured musicians and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival; Felix Maxwell, friend of Taft Jordan and Rudy Powell; Paula Morris, daughter of Maxine Sullivan; and Rudy Powell, son of Everard Powell. Photographer Art Kane and his assistant Stephen Frankfurt, art director Robert Benton, and writer and critic Leonard Feather comprise the former <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span> staffers interviewed for the documentary. The collection also includes interviews with Riverside Records publicist Robert Altshuler and writer and critic Nat Hentoff.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Jean Bach, 1996.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Doyle Ference</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Anika Paris</span>, archivist, and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2023</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection, and a grant from the Mellon Foundation supported the digitization."}
- date_start
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1989
- keydate
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1989
- date_end
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1996
- date_inclusive_start
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1989
- date_inclusive_end
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1996
- date_bulk_start
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1989
- date_bulk_end
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1993
- extent_statement
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64 video_recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"A Great Day in Harlem documentary collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}