“A Great Day in Toronto” . Portrait of 80 Toronto Professional Drummers . Steps of Old City Hall . Saturday May 13 2012

“A Great Day in Toronto” . Toronto 2012 . Steps of Old City Hall

Group Portrait . 80 Toronto Professional Drummers

Mother’s Day . Saturday May 13 2012

Toronto Ontario Canada

Inspired by and an Homage to “A Great Day in Harlem“. . .

“‘A Great Day in Harlem’ or ‘Harlem 1958’ is a 1958 black and white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians photographed on a street in Harlem, New York City. The photo has remained an important object in the study of the history of jazz.

Art Kane, a freelance photographer working for Esquire magazine, took the picture around 10 a.m. on August 12 in the summer of 1958.

The musicians had gathered on 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Harlem. Esquire published the photo in its January 1959 issue. Kane calls it “the greatest picture of that era of musicians ever taken.'”

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