A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958..
A Great Day In Harlem, as told by Art Kane.
Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Mary Lou Williams, Lester Young, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Count Basie are amongst those in the collective, to name just a few..
The group included Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Count Basie..
Gerry Mulligan didn't believe anyone would show up…it was way too early.
Of the 57 musicians featured only two remain alive – Sonny Rollins and Benny Golson.
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Fifty-eight musicians showed up and the big picture would capture the giants of jazz: Count Basie sitting on the curb, and Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins..
Count Basie’s hat was repeatedly stolen by local kids until Kane surrendered and put them in the shot too. ‘ So here you have a non-professional photographer
Who’s got an assistant who’s never loaded a camera before
Taking this picture which 30 years later is probably the best-known group photograph ever taken if jazz musicians’ – Art Kane
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The Art Kane Photo Workshops were created in Cape MayNew Jersey. They were week-long workshops with notable photographers. [14] Examples of Kane's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Art Kane (born Arthur Kanofsky; April 9
1925 – February 3
1995) was an American fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through the early 1990s.
Artie Kane, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer of film scores including “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” and “Eyes of Laura Mars,” died Tuesday at his home on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, Wash. He was 93. Kane was widely considered one of the finest keyboard players in the history of Hollywood. He played for every major composer […]
Arthur Kane was born Arthur Kane Jr. in the Bronx, Newyork into an Irish family. He was known as a musician and famous for his skills as a bassist with the New York Dolls -a punk rock band. He became a Mormon in 1989 when he was about 40 years old.
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