Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton

Written and Directed by David G. Berger, Holly Maxson and Kate Hirson. Narrated by Jeffrey Wright. Combining rare pictures, footage and interviews with legendary musicians, this is an insider’s portrait of jazz history.

During his seven-decade-long career, legendary bassist Milt Hinton performed with nearly every major jazz artist alive. Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton is a loving portrait of this remarkably creative and generous man, who not only made beautiful music, but also took some of the most unforgettable photographs of 20th-century American life. Snapping more than 60,000 pictures over the years, Hinton provided an insider's look at the world of American music, as well as American history, from touring the South in the 1930s to his death in 2000.

Featuring more than 30 recordings of Hinton’s music and told through interviews with Hinton as well as Amiri Baraka, Nat Hentoff, Gregory Hines, Quincy Jones, Branford Marsalis, Doc Cheatham, Joe Williams, George Wein and others, Keeping Time intimately embraces the rich life of a remarkable musician who recognized and recorded history as he was living it, capturing his extraordinary spirit and solemn commitment to pass on his knowledge and experience to future generations.

This one-time only screening is courtesy of producers David Berger and Holly Maxon.
Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton © 2002, Slap Bass Productions, Inc.