The Great Jazz Day Classic Photographs & Film

On a summer morning in 1958 Esquire magazine assembled the greatest jazz luminaries of the day on a door stoop in Harlem for what became the most famous, most recognized and most collected jazz picture ever, the focus for the 1995 Oscar-nominated film A Great Day in Harlem. This is the first book ever published about thai day, and features the now-immortalized image, and many more shots including Milt Hinton and Art Kane, and even Dizzy Gillespie. Great Jazz Day in Harlem includes essays on how the famous picture came to be and, in both narrative form and in the words of some of the musicians present, what exactly happened on that famous day in jazz history.