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ART KANE

Jazz Musicians (1958)

Gelatin silver print. Printed later. Estate stamp on the verso. 15 3/8 x 15½in.

Lot Essay

It was mid-August 1958, about 10 a.m. when an incredible group of America's jazz musicians came together to be photographed for a special edition of Esquire magazine commemorating the golden age of jazz. Kane, a freelance art director at the time, offered to take the picture and suggested it be taken in Harlem, the heart of New York jazz. The photograph was the inspiration for the documentary film called "A Great Day in Harlem" about the making of the picture. Included in this photograph are, from the top: Benny Golson; Art Farmer; Wilbur Ware; Hilton Jefferson; Art Blakely; Chubby Jackson; Johnny Griffin; Dicky Wells; Buck Clayton; Taft Jordon; Zutty Singleton; Red Allen; Sonny Greer; Jimmy Jones; Tyree Glenn; Miff Mole; J.C. Higginbotham; Charles Mingus; Jo Jones; Gene Krupa; Osie Johnson; Max Kaminsky; George Wettling; Bud Freeman; Pee Wee Russell; Buster Baily; Scoville Brown; Bill Crump; Ernie Wilkins; Sahib Shahab; Sonny Rollins; Gigi Gryce; Hank Jones; Eddie Locke; Horace Silver; Luckey Roberts; Maxine Sullivan; Jimmy Rushing; Joe Thomas; Stuff Smith; Coleman Hawkins; Rudy Powell; Oscar Pettiford; Marian McPartland; Lawrence Brown; Mary Lou Williams; Emmett Berry; Thelonius Monk; Vic Dickenson; Milt Hinton; Lester Young; Rex Stewart; J.C. Heard; Gerry Mulligan; Roy Eldridge; Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie.