The Last of the Jazz Titans
In August 1958, Esquire invited 58 jazz musicians to meet on a stoop in Harlem for a photo shoot. The resulting picture, now known as Harlem 1958 , became legendary for collecting some of the genre’s greatest talents, stretching from the swing era (Count Basie, Gene Krupa) to the peaks of bebop (Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie). The assembled musicians may not have realized that rock and roll was on the verge of taking over pop music, thus sweeping jazz to the margins—but the fact that it was ma
Charles Mingus
Charlie Parker
Coleman Hawkins
Count Basie
Dizzy Gillespie
Doxy
Esquire
Francis Davis
Gene Krupa
Harlem
Harlem 1958
John Coltrane
Ken Burns
Miles Davis
Neighbours
New York
Oleo
Rolling Stones
Sonny Rollins
St. Thomas
Tattoo You
Thelonious Monk
Village Vanguard
Wynton Marsalis