A Great Day In Harlem: The story and sounds behind the most famous photo in the history of Jazz
A Great Day in Harlem 1958 is a 1958 black and white group portrait of
57 jazz musicians photographed on a street in Harlem, New York City.
Art Kane, a freelance photographer working for Esquire magazine, took the picture
around 10 a.m. on August 12, 1958. The musicians had gathered on 126th Street,
between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Harlem.
Jean Bach, a radio producer of New York, recounted the story behind it in her 1994 documentary film, A Great Day in Harlem. The film was nominated in 1995 for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
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Musicians in The Photograph.
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Red Allen Buster Bailey Count Basie Emmett Berry Art Blakey Scoville Browne Lawrence Brown Buck Clayton Bill Crump Vic Dickenson Roy Eldridge Art Farmer
Bud Freeman Dizzy Gillespie Tyree Glenn Benny Golson Sonny Greer Johnny Griffin
Gigi Gryce Coleman Hawkins J.C. Heard Jay C. Higginbotham Milt Hinton
Chubby Jackson Hilton Jefferson Osie Johnson Hank Jones Jimmy Jones Jo Jones
Taft Jordan Max Kaminsky Gene Krupa Eddie Locke Marian McPartland
Charles Mingus Miff Mole Thelonious Monk Gerry Mulligan Oscar Pettiford
Rudy Powell Luckey Roberts Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing Pee Wee Russell
Sahib Shihab Horace Silver Zutty Singleton Stuff Smith Rex Stewart Maxine Sullivan
Joe Thomas Wilbur Ware Dicky Wells George Wettling Ernie Wilkins
Mary Lou Williams Lester Young
