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