One morning in August 1958 fifty-seven of the greatest jazz musicians gathered together on the steps of a Harlem brownstone to sit for one of the most celebrated ensemble jazz portraits ever taken. Forty years after the historic shoot Life magazine hired photographer Gordon Parks to recreate Kanes picture, and invited the surviving musicians to gather once again on the same brownstone steps on 126th Street. Just eleven musicians had survived: Gerry Mulligan, Marian McPartland, Milt Hinton, Horace Silver, Art Farmer, Hank Jones, Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Chubby Jackson, Eddie Locke and Johnny Griffin—as well as Taft Jordan Jr., the small child who had sat beside Count Basie on the curb nearly forty years previously. All but Sonny Rollins turned up.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:02:43 +0000
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