When the photographer Art Kane trained his lens on a group of 57 assorted jazz musicians in front of a brownstone house in Harlem one day in the summer of 1958, what he saw represented almost the entire history of the idiom. Early masters such as the trumpeter Red Allen and the drummer Zutty Singleton were mingling with the swing-era heroes Count Basie, Lester Young and Gene Krupa, and with postwar beboppers such as Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie.
Among the youngest of the assembly – not counting the neighbourhood children who sat on the kerb in front of the musicians – was the tenor saxophonist and composer Benny Golson, already the author of jazz standards such as Whisper Not and I Remember Clifford, who has died aged 95.
