In The Wall Street Journal this week, I wrote an essay for the Review section on jazz's greatest image: "Harlem 1958," also known as "A Great Day in Harlem," photographed by Art Kane and published in Esquire in January 1959 (go here). Fifty-seven jazz musicians were captured in a split second by Kane's camera on a brownstone stoop and sidewalk at 17 Eas…
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