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"Great Day in Harlem"

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"A Great Day in Harlem": Art Kane portrait of fifty-seven jazz musicians in Harlem; Harlem, New York.
Date Published
1958
Publisher
Art Kane
Subjects
African American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians
Musicians--Labor unions
African American men
African American women
African American children
Buildings
Subjects, Geographic
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Notes

1958

Count Basie, piano; Gigi Gryce, saxophone; Hank Jones, piano; Eddie Locke, drums; Horace Silver, piano; Luckey Roberts, piano; Maxine Sullivan, vocals; Jimmy Rushing, vocals; Joe Thomas, trumpet; Scoville Browne, clarinet; Stuff Smith, violin; Bill Crump, reeds; Coleman Hawkins, saxophone; Rudy Powell, saxophone; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Sahib Shihab, saxophone; Marian McPartland, piano; Lawrence Brown, trombone; Mary Lou Williams, piano; Emmett Berry, trumpet; Thelonious Monk, piano; Vic Dickenson, trombone; Milt Hinton, bass; Lester Young, saxophone; Rex Stewart, trumpet; J.C. Heard, drums; Gerry Mulligan, saxophone; Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Sonny Greer, drums; Jimmy Jones, piano; Miff Mole, trombone; Jay C. Higginbotham, trombone; Charles Mingus, bass; Jo Jones, drums; Gene Krupa, drums; Osie Johnson, Max Kaminsky, trumpet; George Wettling, drums; Bud Freeman, saxophone; Pee Wee Russell, clarinet; Ernie Wilkins, saxophone; Buster Bailey, clarinet; Sonny Rollins, saxophone; Benny Golson, saxophone; Art Farmer, trumpet; Wilbur Ware, bass; Hilton Jefferson, saxophone; Art Blakey, drums; Chubby Jackson, bass; Johnny Griffin, saxophone; Dickie Wells, trombone; Buck Clayton, trumpet; Taft Jordan, trumpet; Zutty Singleton, drums; Red Allen, trumpet; Tyree Glenn, trombone.

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1475.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
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All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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