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The document summarizes a famous 1958 black and white photograph titled "A Great Day in Harlem" that captured 57 notable jazz musicians on the steps of a brownstone in Harlem, New York. The photo was commissioned by Esquire magazine and organized by photographer Art Kane. It has become an important historical document of the jazz era. The photo was later featured prominently in the 1994 documentary "A Great Day in Harlem" and the 2004 film "The Terminal".

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A Great Day in Harlem (Wiki)

The document summarizes a famous 1958 black and white photograph titled "A Great Day in Harlem" that captured 57 notable jazz musicians on the steps of a brownstone in Harlem, New York. The photo was commissioned by Esquire magazine and organized by photographer Art Kane. It has become an important historical document of the jazz era. The photo was later featured prominently in the 1994 documentary "A Great Day in Harlem" and the 2004 film "The Terminal".

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A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a 1958 black and white group portrait of 57 notable
jazz musicians photographed in front of a Brownstone in Harlem, New York City. The photo has
remained an important object in the study of the history of jazz.

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Art Kane, a freelance photographer working for Esquire magazine, took the picture around 10 a.m.
on August 12 in the summer of 1958. [1] The musicians had gathered at 17 East 126th Street,
between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Harlem. Esquire published the photo in its January 1959
issue. Kane calls it "the greatest picture of that era of musicians ever taken."
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.
As of April 2013, only 4 of the 57 musicians who participated are still living (see starred names in the
list below.)
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Musicians in the photograph

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Red Allen

Rudy
Powell

Buster
Bailey

Luckey
Roberts

Count
Basie
Emmett
Berry
Art Blakey
Lawrence
Brown

Coleman
Hawkins
J.C. Heard
Jay C.
Higginbotham
Milt Hinton

Scoville
Browne

Chubby
Jackson

Buck
Clayton

Hilton
Jefferson

Bill

Osie Johnson

Crump [2]

Hank Jones

Sonny
Rollins*
Jimmy
Rushing
Pee Wee
Russell
Sahib
Shihab
Horace
Silver*
Zutty
Singleton

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Jo Jones
Vic
A Great Day in
HarlemJones
Jimmy
Dickenson
Taft Jordan
Roy
Eldridge
Art
Farmer
Bud
Freeman
Dizzy
Gillespie
Tyree
Glenn

Stuff
Smith
Rex
Stewart

Max
Kaminsky

Maxine
Sullivan

Gene Krupa
Eddie Locke

Joe
Thomas

Marian
McPartland*

Wilbur
Ware

Charles
Mingus

Dickie
Wells

Miff Mole

George
Wettling

Benny
Golson*

Thelonious
Monk

Sonny
Greer

Gerry
Mulligan

Ernie
Wilkins
Mary Lou
Williams

Johnny
Griffin

Lester
Young

Gigi
Gryce

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still living
people

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The photo was also a key plot point in Steven Spielberg's film, The Terminal. The film starred Tom
Hanks as Viktor Navorski, a character who comes to the United States in search of Benny Golson's
autograph, with which he can complete his deceased father's collection of autographs from the
musicians pictured in the photo.

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