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(MUSIC.) JUBILEE SINGERS.
Jubilee Singers.
classic carte-de-visite with
American Missionary Association, Jubilee Singers, Nashville Tenn. on the reverse. An
exceptional example.
Nashville, circa 1873-75
[300/400]
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(MUSIC.) KANE, ART.
A Great Day in Harlem.
Gelatin Silver print photo-
graph, 16 x 20 inches; some signs on the reverse of having been attached to something at
one time, not affecting the integrity of the photograph in any way.
New York City, 1958
[1,500/2,500]
AN EXTRAORDINARY GATHERING OF JAZZ FIGURES
,
posed in front of a brownstone at 17
East 126th Street, in New York’s Harlem. It would be difficult to say who was NOT in this
incredible shot. In all there are 57 notable jazz musicians, the like of this gathering has never
before or since been equaled. Art Kane, a freelance photographer who was at the time working
for Esquire magazine took the photo at 10:00 a.m. on August 12, 1958. Esquire published
the photo in their January 1959 issue. Jean Bach, a radio producer from New York recounted
the story in her 1994 documentary film “A Great Day in Harlem. The film was nominated
for a 1995 Academy Award. As of April of 2012, only 4 of the musicians are still living:
Sonny Rollins, Marian McPartland, Benny Golson, and Horace Silver.
The print being offered her seems to have been trimmed for mounting and is lacking about 1
3
⁄
4
inches from the left side, taking off Hilton Jefferson, who holds what looks like a record album
in his hand. We located two other appearances of this photo with variations on the size of the
image on the left side. The original included a man walking toward the group from left to right.
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