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Sixty years ago today, 57 jazz musicians were photographed in front of a brownstone at 17 E. 126th Street in Harlem for what would become the most famous photo in jazz history. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ was shot at around 10 a.m. by freelance photographer Art Kane... 
The photo was published in the Jan 1959 issue of @esquire, roughly seven months before Sonny Rollins went to The Bridge. It brought together different generations of jazz musicians, e.g. pianist Luckey Roberts was 43 years older than Sonny Rollins at the time of the photo...
Rollins also stood near Rudy Powell (b. 1907), whose son he’d gone to school with. A number of Rollins’ heroes took part in the photo shoot including Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, & Count Basie...
