A Great Day In Harlem - Harlem 58 - The Photograph - Part 3

A Great Day in Harlem or 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. in the summer of 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.
Musicians in The Photograph.
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

[@soapbxprod]

Story of my dad's life- he knew all these cats- including Art Kane and Steve Frankfurt... when he passed away in '04, he had a 24 by 36 poster of this photo on his wall mounted to dense foam board... it's on my wall to this day... Mary Lou Williams was a Goddess walking on the Earth... :)

[@anthonybroadway1286]

Absolutely amazing woke up this morning and wow this great moment in jazz in Harlem was on my phone can't believe it don't know where it came from don't know how it got there BUT WOW THERE IT WAS.

[@linmcphillips]

This is great!...great back stories by the musicians that were there...and great music in the background. Important post, thanks!

[@themanfromutopia1]

Wonderful stuff.

[@23flight23]

Trumpet solo starting at 3:04. Holy crap.

[@robinp.hunter2852]

There is a 20 minute extra with this documentary called The Spitball Story. Would you by any chance be able to post that as well?

[@lenorem.7889]

again