Jean Bach (September 27, 1918 – May 27, 2013) was an American documentary film director, radio producer and jazz aficionado.
[1] She made frequent trips to Harlem and the Apollo Theater as a student at Vassar College.
[1] The black-and-white photograph which formed the basis of A Great Day in Harlem is a portrait of fifty-seven prominent jazz musicians who were photographed in front of a brownstone at 17 East 126th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan.
Bach learned that jazz bassist Milt Hinton had a home movie from the day of the photo shoot in 1958.
[1] She acquired Hinton's home movie and used it for archival footage for her own film, A Great Day in Harlem, an hour-long documentary released in 1994.