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To create what is perhaps the most celebrated ensemble jazz portrait of all time, fifty-seven of the greatest jazz musicians in history, gather together on the steps of a Harlem, New York City, USA, brownstone apartment block on 126th Street to have their photograph taken by Art Kane for Esquire magazine. Jazz stars in the photograph include Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Marian McPartland, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins and Stuff Smith.
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