This story was originally published by Boyle Heights Beat on July 1, 2025. In 2015, photographer and videographer Piero F. Giunti had a dream about Art Kane’s iconic “A Great Day in Harlem” photograph ...

Ask me to name three feel-good films and I’ll rattle off a trio of lesser-known choices: the Ali-Foreman debacle When We Were Kings (1996), the noodle-western Tampopo(1985) and A Great Day in Harlem, ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) — It started as a one-day celebration back in 1974 when Harlem was going through a tough time. Now, Harlem Week is a two-and-a-half-week series of events documenting the rich ...

In 1994, director Jean Bach gave us "A Great Day in Harlem," a one-hour documentary that peels back the remarkable story behind Art Kane’s legendary 1958 photograph of jazz legends gathered on a ...

LA Plaza de Cultura and Artes’ newest exhibition centers the culture, sounds and impact of East L.A. musicians. Upon reading the news, the San Fernando Valley native and photographer-filmmaker shook ...

Jazz giants (Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins) gathered for a group portrait in 1958. Jean Bach’s Oscar-nominated film describes what went on behind the ...

Harlem Week is in full swing, literally. Hundreds of people spent their Saturday afternoon enjoying the weather and the music in Central Park at a Harlem Week event called "Great Jazz on the Great ...

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When photographer Art Kane assembled 77 jazz musicians for the iconic 1958 photo A Great Day in Harlem, only three women stood among the crowd: Marian McPartland, Mary Lou Williams, and Hazel Scott.