Trivia for May 21, 2008
Question: Can you name these great jazz legends from this famous Art Kane photograph, "A Great Day in Harlem" (1958)?
Answers:
1. Hilton Jefferson
2. Benny Golson
3. Art Farmer
4. Wilbur Ware
5. Art Blakey
6. Chubby Jackson
7. Johnny Griffin
8. Dickie Wells
9. Buck Clayton
10. Taft Jordan
11. Zutty Singleton
12. Red Allen
13. Tyree Glenn
14. Miff Molo
15. Sonny Greer
16. Jay C. Higginbotham
17. Jimmy Jones
18. Charles Mingus
19. Jo Jones
20. Gene Krupa
21. Max Kaminsky
22. George Wettling
23. Bud Freeman
24. Pee Wee Russell
25. Ernie Wilkins
26. Buster Bailey
27. Osie Johnson
28. Gigi Gryce
29. Hank Jones
30. Eddie Locke
31. Horace Silver
32. Luckey Roberts
33. Maxine Sullivan
34. Jimmy Rushing
35. Joe Thomas
36. Scoville Browne
37. Stuff Smith
38. Bill Crump
39. Coleman Hawkins
40. Rudy Powell
41. Oscar Pettiford
42. Sahib Shihab
43. Marian McPartland
44. Sonny Rollins
45. Lawrence Brown
46. Mary Lou Williams
47. Emmett Berry
48. Thelonius Monk
49. Vic Dickenson
50. Milt Hinton
51. Lester Young
52. Rex Stewart
53. J.C. Heard
54. Gerry Mulligan
55. Roy Eldgridge
56. Dizzy Gillespie
57. Count Basie
Art Kane's first professional photograph in 1958 "A Great Day in Harlem" has become an icon of jazz photography. It is also recognized, in the broader context of American photography, as a major work. Through appearances on posters, postcards, in books and magazines it is celebrated worldwide. Originally commissioned by Esquire magazine, the underlying concept was simple: to create a group portrait of living legendary jazz musicians on a Harlem street. However the photograph's compositional brilliance, its historic importance, no less the complex logistics required to organize the shoot, elevated Art Kane's achievement to a true tour de force.
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