From Open Culture:

Sixty years ago, Art Kane assembled one of the largest groups of jazz greats in history. No, it wasn’t an all-star big band, but a meeting of veteran legends and young upstarts for the iconic photograph known as “A Great Day in Harlem.” Fifty-seven musicians gathered outside a brownstone at 17 East 126th St.—accompanied by twelve neighborhood kids—from “big rollers,” notes Jazzwise magazine, like “Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins and Pee Wee Russell to then up-and-coming names, Benny Golson, Marion MacPartland, Mary Lou Williams and Art Farmer.”

Originally titled “Harlem 1958,”  Kane’s image has inspired some notable homages in black culture. In 1998, XXL magazine tapped Gordon Parks to shoot “A Great Day in Hip Hop” for a now-historic cover. And this past summer, Netflix gathered 47 black creatives behind more than 20 original Netflix shows for the redux “A Great Day in Hollywood.” The photo also inspired a documentary of the same title in 1994 (at whose website you can click on each musician for a short bio).

The List of Jazz Greats:

1. Hilton Jefferson (1903-1968)
2. Benny Golson (1929-)
3. Art Farmer (1928-2003)
4. Wilbur Ware (1923-1979)
5. Art Blakey (1919-1990)
6. Chubby Jackson (1918-2003)
7. Johnny Griffin (1928-2008)
8. Dickie Wells (1909-1985)
9. Buck Clayton (1911-1993)
10. Taft Jordan (1915-1981)
11. Zutty Singleton (1898-1975)
12. Henry “Red” Allen (1908-1967)
13. Tyree Glenn (1912-1972)
14. Miff Mole (1898-1961)
15. Sonny Greer (1903-1982)
16. J.C. Higginbotham (1906-1973)
17. Jimmy Jones (1918-1982)
18. Charles Mingus (1922-1979)
19. Jo Jones (1911-1985)
20. Gene Krupa (1909-1973)
21. Max Kaminsky (1908-1994)
22. George Wettling (1907-1968)
23. Bud Freeman (1906-1988)
24. Pee Wee Russell (1906-1969)
25. Ernie Wilkins (1922-1999)
26. Buster Bailey (1902-1967)
27. Osie Johnson (1923-1968)
28. Gigi Gryce (1927-1983)
29. Hank Jones (1918-2010)
30. Eddie Locke (1930-2009)
31. Horace Silver (1928-2014)
32. Luckey Roberts (1887-1968)
33. Maxine Sullivan (1911-1987)
34. Jimmy Rushing (1902-1972)
35. Joes Thomas (1909-1984)
36. Scoville Browne (1915-1994)
37. Stuff Smith (1909-1967)
38. Bill Crump (1919-1980s)
39. Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969)
40. Rudy Powell (1907-1976)
41. Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960)
42. Sahib Shihab (1925-1993)
43. Marian McPartland (1920-2013)
44. Sonny Rollins (1929-)
45. Lawrence Brown (1905-1988)
46. Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981)
47. Emmett Berry (1915-1993)
48. Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
49. Vic Dickenson (1906-1984)
50. Milt Hinton (1910-2000)
51. Lester “Pres” Young (1909-1959)
52. Rex Stewart (1907-1972)
53. J.C. Heard (1917-1988)
54. Gerry Mulligan (1927-1995)
55. Roy Eldridge (1911-1989)
56. Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)
57. William “Count” Basie (1904-1984)

Article Research Courtesy of Open Culture & Jazzwise Magazine