# Jean Bach

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Not to be confused with [Jean Back](/source/Jean_Back).

**Jean Bach** (September 27, 1918 – May 27, 2013) was an [American](/source/Americans) [documentary](/source/Documentary) [film director](/source/Film_director), [radio producer](/source/Radio_producer), and [jazz](/source/Jazz) [aficionado](/source/Aficionado). Bach directed the 1994 documentary, *[A Great Day in Harlem](/source/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(film))*, based on a 1958 [photograph of the same name](/source/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(photograph)).[1]

## Biography

Bach was born **Jean Enzinger** in [Chicago](/source/Chicago) on September 27, 1918, and raised in [Milwaukee](/source/Milwaukee).[1] She made frequent trips to Harlem and the [Apollo Theater](/source/Apollo_Theater) as a student at [Vassar College](/source/Vassar_College).[1] She became a fixture in New York's jazz scene for the rest of her life.[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](/source/Brownstone) at 17 East 126th Street in the [Harlem](/source/Harlem) neighborhood of upper [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan). Bach learned that jazz bassist [Milt Hinton](/source/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](/source/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(film))*, an hour-long documentary released in 1994.[1] Her film won the top award from the [Chicago International Film Festival](/source/Chicago_International_Film_Festival) and earned an [Academy Award for Documentary Feature](/source/Academy_Award_for_Documentary_Feature) nomination in 1995.[1][2]

Jean Bach died at her home in [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan) on May 27, 2013, at the age of 94.[1] Her husband, Bob Bach, a production coordinator on *[What's My Line?](/source/What's_My_Line%3F)*, whom she married in 1948, died in 1985.[1]

## References

1. Martin, Douglas (2013-05-28). ["Jean Bach, Jazz Documentarian and Fan, Dies at 94"](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/movies/jean-bach-jazz-documentarian-and-fan-dies-at-94.html). *[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)*. Retrieved 2013-06-19.

1. ["NY Times: A Great Day in Harlem"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110521134612/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/134318/A-Great-Day-in-Harlem/details). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. 2011. Archived from [the original](https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/134318/A-Great-Day-in-Harlem/details) on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2008-11-20.

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