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Art Kane Famous Photo of Jazz Musicians Group Purchase

Photograph by Art Kane

A Neat 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.[1] The musicians gathered at 17 East 126th Street betwixt Fifth and Madison Artery. Esquire published the photograph in its January 1959 issue.

Musicians in the photograph [edit]

  • Red Allen
  • Buster Bailey
  • Count Basie
  • Emmett Berry
  • Art Blakey
  • Lawrence Brown
  • Scoville Browne
  • Buck Clayton
  • Beak Crump[2]
  • Vic Dickenson
  • Roy Eldridge
  • Fine 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
  • Jo Jones
  • Jimmy 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
  • Dickie Wells
  • George Wettling
  • Ernie Wilkins
  • Mary Lou Williams
  • Lester Young

Children in the picture [edit]

Count Basie, having grown tired of standing, sat downwards on the curb, and gradually a dozen children followed.[3] Most of the children were neighborhood residents, although the second child from the right, Taft Hashemite kingdom of jordan, Jr., had accompanied his begetter, Taft Jordan, to the photograph session.[iii] The photography coiffure was already having trouble directing the adults, and the presence of the children added to the chaos: 1 of the children appearing in the window kept yelling at a sibling on the curb; another kept playing with Basie'due south hat; Taft Jordan, Jr. had been scuffling with the older child seated to his left.[3] Ultimately, Art Kane realized that whatsoever further attempt to organize the proceedings would be futile, and he decided to incorporate the subjects' actions.[3]

Musicians in other photographs [edit]

Willie "The Panthera leo" Smith was sitting out of shot at the time the principal picture show used by Esquire was taken.[4] Ronnie Free, Mose Allison and Charlie Rouse turned up besides late for the Esquire pic; Giddy Gillespie took a photo of them with Mary Lou Williams, Lester Immature and Oscar Pettiford.[v] [6]

Picture [edit]

Jean Bach, a radio producer of New York, recounted the story backside the photograph in her 1994 documentary picture, A Bully 24-hour interval in Harlem. The picture show was nominated in 1995 for an University Award for Documentary Feature. Bach described how, upon the moving-picture show'due south release, a number of like photographs employed the "A Great Solar day in..." theme.[vii] Hugh Hefner assembled Hollywood-expanse musicians for "A Groovy Day in Hollywood" in conjunction with a sneak preview of A Great Mean solar day in Harlem.[vii] Soon after, "A Neat Twenty-four hours in Philadelphia" included musicians such every bit Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson and Ray Bryant.[vii] During the filming of Kansas City (1996), musicians including Jay McShann posed for "A Not bad Twenty-four hour period in Kansas City".[7] A multi-page supplement in The Star-Ledger featured "A Great Twenty-four hours in Jersey", while a Dutch photo was titled "A Great Day in Haarlem".[vii] In 1998, "Swell Day in St Paul" was taken by Byron Nelson.[8]

The trend spread to other styles of music, with Houston dejection musicians posing for "A Great Solar day in Houston".[seven] "A Smashing Day in Hip Hop" was followed by XXL'southward "The Greatest Day in Hip Hop".[vii] An Atlanta radio station gathered musicians for "A Great Solar day in Doo-Wop".[7] A New York cellist, inspired past both the original photo and the film, assembled chamber musicians for "A Great Day in New York".[vii] The New York Mail ran "A Swell Day in Spanish Harlem".[7]

The photo was a fundamental plot point in Steven Spielberg's 2004 film The Terminal. The film starred Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski, a character who comes to the United States in search of Benny Golson'southward autograph, with which he can complete his deceased father's collection of autographs from the musicians pictured in the photograph. Golson himself made a cameo in the motion-picture show.[9] [ten] [11]

Homages [edit]

  • 1998: "A Great Mean solar day in Hip-Hop" — for this photo by Gordon Parks, commissioned by XXL magazine, 177 hip-hop artists gathered on the stoop of number 17 also every bit those of the buildings on either side.[12] [xiii]
  • 2004: "A Great Twenty-four hours in London" — in an initiative inspired past Fine art Kane's photograph, 50 writers of Caribbean area, Asian and African descent making a significant contribution to contemporary British literature gathered to be photographed on the steps of the British Museum in London.[14] [15]
  • 2007: "A Peachy Solar day on Eldridge St." - inspired past Kane's photograph, Yale Strom corralled a score of leading klezmer musicians who gathered on the steps of the Eldridge St. Synagogue to commemorate the 30 years of the klezmer revival.[16]
  • 2008: "A Nifty 24-hour interval in Paris" — more than 50 musicians from the US who were then residing in Paris, France, took part in a historic photo session.[17] The project was initiated by Ricky Ford, who has said: "2008 was the 50th anniversary of the photo "A Great Twenty-four hour period in Harlem" that Art Kane had taken in 1958 of all those jazz musicians in Harlem. I thought it would be a practiced idea to do the same thing with the American jazz musicians that lived in France. It took a year to prepare. Musicians from all over France came. Philippe Lévy-Stab took a group photo on the steps of Montmartre and Michka Saäl started to work on a documentary film of those musicians."[xviii]
  • 2008: "A Keen Day in Hoxton" — a photograph by Peter Williams, commissioned by Direct No Attorney magazine and featuring prominent music business concern faces such equally Gilles Peterson and James Lavelle alongside designers, fashion professionals, writers, dancers and beau photographers.[19]
  • 2013: "Een Grootse Dag in Kootwijk" - in the spirit of XXL's movie "A Great Day in Hiphop", Ghamte Schmidt and Andreas van de Laar gathered the Dutch Hiphopscene at the monumental Radio Kootwijk for a grouping portrait.
  • 2016: "A Great Solar day in Hackney" — in the spirit of Art Kane's photograph, British jazz musicians assembled to gloat the 30th anniversary of The Premises Studios in Hackney.[20]
  • 2018: "A Great Day in Hollywood" — 47 black writers, showrunners, actors, and producers from more than than twenty Netflix original shows, films and documentaries came together to create "A Groovy Day in Hollywood".[21] Taken to promote Netflix's Strong Black Lead initiative, Netflix also released a minute long video directed past Lacey Duke and narrated by Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things).[22]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Marian McPartland – A Dandy Day in Harlem". Clarehansson.com. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  2. ^ Allmusic Nib Crump biography
  3. ^ a b c d Bach, Jean (2005) [1994]. A Bang-up Solar day in Harlem (DVD). Event occurs at 34:55.
  4. ^ @RollinsBridge (Baronial 12, 2018). "A 58th musician not in the last photo, Willie 'The Lion' Smith (b. 1897), got tired of standing and left the group to sit on the stoop next door..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "the latecomers". A Great Twenty-four hours in Harlem.
  6. ^ @RollinsBridge (August 12, 2018). "Iii more than musicians - Ronny Costless, Mose Allison, and Charlie Rouse - arrived as well late to get in the photo; Featherbrained Gillespie after took a photograph of the latecomers with Lester Young, Mary Lou Williams, and Oscar Pettiford..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Jean Bach, Susan Peehl, and Matthew Seig (2005) [1994]. "The Copycat Photos". A Great Twenty-four hour period in Harlem (DVD). Paradigm Entertainment.
  8. ^ Andrea Canter, "Attention All Twin Cities Jazz Artists! "Swell 24-hour interval in St Paul" Photo Shoot May 22!", Jazz Police, May 9, 2016
  9. ^ At 90, jazz corking Benny Golson returns to Minnesota: 'I feel maybe 45 or fifty'
  10. ^ Lorne Graham, "A Smashing 24-hour interval in Harlem/The Terminal", NEMC article.
  11. ^ "The Terminal - Jazz Scenes - Benny Golson and A Great Day in Harlem", YouTube
  12. ^ Michael A. Gonzales, "XXL's A Corking Mean solar day in Hip Hop: 16 Years After", Red Bull Music Academy Daily, September 29, 2014.
  13. ^ Sarah Goodyear, "Stoop Summit — How a Harlem brownstone was immortalized when the living legends of jazz assembled there for an iconic photograph", New York Daily News, Baronial 12, 2016.
  14. ^ Andrea Levy, "Made in United kingdom. To gloat the impact of their different perspectives, 50 writers of Caribbean, Asian and African descent gathered to be photographed...", The Guardian, September 18, 2004.
  15. ^ Kevin Le Gendre, "Books: A great 24-hour interval for a family unit become together; Who are the movers and shakers in black British writing? And tin they all fit on one staircase?", The Independent on Sunday, October 17, 2004.
  16. ^ "Great Solar day on Eldridge Street" The Forward, 17 October 2007
  17. ^ "A Great 24-hour interval in Paris - Trailer" on YouTube
  18. ^ Mathieu Perez, "Ricky Ford: V or Six Shades of Jazz" (interview), Jazz Hot #668, Summertime 2014.
  19. ^ https://reports.mdp.fca.org.uk/jasperserver-pro/login.html [ permanent dead link ]
  20. ^ "NEWS: "Great Day in Hackney" Photo taken to celebrate 30 Years of Premises Studios", London Jazz News, Oct xviii, 2016.
  21. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (June 25, 2018). "Netflix Unveils 'Groovy Twenty-four hour period in Hollywood' Prototype Spot Highlighting Blackness Creators". Variety.
  22. ^ "A Peachy Day in Hollywood | Netflix". June 24, 2018.

External links [edit]

  • Sarah Goodyear, "Stoop Top — How a Harlem brownstone was immortalized when the living legends of jazz assembled there for an iconic photograph", New York Daily News, 12 August 2016 (including interactive photo leading to performance clips by each musician). Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  • "Fine art Kane: Harlem 1958". Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved 2014-07-16 .
  • "Jazz's Virtually Iconic Photograph is Half a Century Onetime" by Alan Kurtz (Jazz.com)
  • Jazz Greats in Ane Immortal 1958 Paradigm (The New York Times, September 25, 2018)
  • An interactive version of A Great Day in Harlem showing the musicians' names

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