@vurnt22 That’s Count Basie sitting down on the curb with them. Pretty big shoes to fill if you were a kid just gettin’ into jazz….
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Tuffenuff2025
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What I want to know about, are all the little kids in the front. How did being in that picture affect them? Did any of them grow up to be musicians? How did their lives turn out? Did any of them get a print? I betcha nobody thought to keep track.
I’d be happy to be wrong.
Michael Warburton@For_Film_Fans
“A Great Day in Harlem” is a b&w photograph of 57 Jazz musicians taken in New York City in 1958 by ART KANE for Esquire magazine. The line up includes Count Basie, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan & Gene Krupa. #InternationalJazzDay
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