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A Great Day In Harlem (photograph)
''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. The musicians gathered at 17 East 126th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenue. ''Esquire'' published the photo in its January 1959 issue. Musicians in the photograph * Red Allen * Buster Bailey * Count Basie * Emmett Berry * Art Blakey * Lawrence Brown * Scoville Browne * Buck Clayton * Bill Crump * Vic Dickenson * Roy Eldridge * 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 Powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Day In Harlem
''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. The musicians gathered at 17 East 126th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenue. ''Esquire'' published the photo in its January 1959 issue. Musicians in the photograph * Red Allen * Buster Bailey * Count Basie * Emmett Berry * Art Blakey * Lawrence Brown * Scoville Browne * Buck Clayton * Bill Crump * Vic Dickenson * Roy Eldridge * 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 * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Eldridge
David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the dominant style of jazz trumpet innovator Louis Armstrong, and his strong impact on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most influential musicians of the swing era and a precursor of bebop. Biography Early life Eldridge was born on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 30, 1911, to parents Alexander, a wagon teamster, and Blanche, a gifted pianist with a talent for reproducing music by ear, a trait that Eldridge claimed to have inherited from her. Eldridge began playing the piano at the age of five; he claims to have been able to play coherent blues licks at even this young age. The young Eldridge looked up to his older brother, Joe Eldridge (born Joseph Eldridge, 1908, North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton Jefferson
Hilton Jefferson (July 30, 1903 – November 14, 1968) was an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States, perhaps best known for leading the saxophone section from 1940–1949 in the Cab Calloway band. Jefferson is said to have been "a soft, delicate saxophone player, with an exquisite sensibility." In 1929, Jefferson began his professional career with Claude Hopkins, and throughout the 1930s was busy working for the big bands of Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. From 1952–1953, Jefferson performed with Duke Ellington, but ultimately became a bank guard to support himself with a steady income. In the 1950s, he continued to perform, especially with Rex Stewart and some former members of Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. Discography With Dizzy Gillespie * ''Afro'' (Norgran, 1954) * ''Dizzy and Strings'' (Norgran, 1954) * ''Jazz Recital'' (Norgran, 1955) * ''The Big Band Sound of Dizzy Gillespie'' (Verve, 1973) With Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chubby Jackson
Greig Stewart "Chubby" Jackson (October 25, 1918 – October 1, 2003) was an American jazz double-bassist and band leader. Biography Born in New York City, Jackson began at the age of seventeen as a clarinetist, but quickly changed to bass in the mid-1930s. Jackson performed and/or recorded with Louis Armstrong, Raymond Scott, Jan Savitt, Henry Busse, Charlie Barnet, Oscar Pettiford, Charlie Ventura, Lionel Hampton, Bill Harris, Woody Herman, Gerry Mulligan, Lennie Tristano and others. He is perhaps best known for his spirited work both with the Herman bands, and as a leader of his own bands, big and small. In the 1950s, Jackson worked as a studio musician, freelanced, and hosted some local children's TV shows: ''Chubby Jackson's Little Rascals'', which was seen weekday mornings on WABC TV Ch. 7 in New York from March 23, 1959, to July 14, 1961, and ''The Chubby Jackson Show'', Saturday afternoons also on WABC TV Ch.7, from July 22, 1961, to August 5, 1961. Jackson hosted his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
