07/04/2022, at 10am - Documentary - A Great Day in Harlem - In English - Free entry - American Corner Trieste

[ICTP/infopoint - Emili Sabina]

*April is dedicated to the extraordinary heritage and history of jazz. 
Jazz Appreciation Month* is intended to stimulate and encourage people 
of all ages to participate in jazz - to study the music, attend 
concerts, listen to jazz on radio and recordings, read books about jazz, 
and more.

At the *Associazione Italo Americana FVG / American Corner Trieste, 
Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo, 6 - Trieste*, we propose a photographic 
exhibit and other thematic events.  Free of Change with Mandatory Green 
Pass and Face Mask.


      Photo Exhibit - Real Ambassadors - April 2022 - Free and Open to
      the Public. Mon-Sat 9-12 and Mon-Fri 5-7 pm.

Discover how the Cold War and Civil Rights movement collided when 
America asked Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny 
Goodman to travel as cultural ambassadors and combat racially-charged 
Soviet propaganda through their music.


*07/04/2022, 10 am - A Great Day In Harlem - Documentary 1995. 90 min.*

Director: Jean Bach , Narrator: Quincy Jones, Featuring interviews in 
the 1990's with: Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Buck Clayton and many 
recorded performances.

'A Great Day in Harlem' or' Harlem, 1958' is a black-and-white 
photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York City. The picture 
was taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on 
August 12, 1958.

  A Great Day in Harlem (1994) recounts the story behind the photograph.
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.

The photograph, A Great Day in Harlem captures the spirit of an era when 
New York City was the center of the jazz world, when music history was 
constantly being made, and when creativity was fostered by an intense 
and nurturing community of musicians and fans. It was indeed a great day 
when musicians met and joked with friends, family, and community 
residents - in one instance even blowing a few jazz riffs - on a side 
street in Harlem in 1958. Like the photograph it documents, A Great Day 
in Harlem is a vivid portrait of a unique community

Coming up:

*21/4/2022,  10am - The Terminal - (2004) Film in English 2 hrs*
Director: Steven Spielberg.  Starring:Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones

Viktor Navorski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. 
Due to the collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in 
the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport until the war 
cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with 
the people who work there until he can leave.
*
Why did Victor travel to New York?* To get the autograph of Benny 
Golson, the only jazz musician missing from his father's collection of 
autographs of musicians from the photo *"A Great Day in Harlem"*.

Sincerely,

Denise Tecchio
American Corner Trieste
Cell Personale 3288846049

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