Jean Bach was nominated for a 1995 Academy Award for her film A Great Day in Harlem, documenting 57 jazz greats, including Marian McPartland, who gathered on a front stoop in Harlem for a portrait in 1959. Bach remembers the legacy of this iconic image, including those who have appeared on Piano Jazz: Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Milt Hinton, and Gerry Mulligan.
Piano Jazz airs every Wednesday evening at 6pm on jazz89KUVO.