BillF

I guess it descends through the generations! Eric Alexander asked much the same of Griffin and got the answer "subtone".

I just had a look at the location on Google Street View. Still looks much the same today, with the addition of a few trees. Pilgrimage destination?

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According to Wikipedia, the only child identified was Taft Jordan's son (2nd child on right). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(photograph)

How true that is! I had been listening to jazz for a year when this was taken:

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Agreed, but I'd take exception to your "fifty years ago". As related above, Miles was an important entry point into jazz for me in 1958, which is 63 years ago. For me, it was the 1954 Miles, Monk, Milt, Klook session that was so inspirational, but had we been able to get them, the "Walkin', etc Prestige albums were already there, not to mention Miles Ahead, which I heard on release, and Milestones. By 1958 I also knew Miles as a Parker sideman, as I owned an LP of the Savoy tracks.

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Antigone Uncle Remus Cousin Mary

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Agreed

Mobley w. Morgan Miles w. Kelly or Miles w. Evans?

Rupert Murdoch Rupert Brooke Rupert Bear

Alan Dawson Ralph Bowen or Cory Weeds?

Tubby Hayes

Yes, the library was very important in my jazz education, too. Leeds Public Libraries were very progressive in including jazz records in their borrowing stock as early as 1958 when I was 18. Borrowings I particularly remember included Miles Davis' Collectors' Items, the Prestige Gene Ammons jam sessions, the 3 Hampton Hawes studio albums on Contemporary, Herman from the late 40s and early 50s and the Gillespie late 40s band. Buying these was out of the question on grounds of cost. When I started university in that year, my weekly rent, including meals, was less than the cost of 2 jazz records! No mention of Blue Note, you'll notice. They weren't available in the UK till 1962. I remember the launch with Stanley Turrentine's Look Out!, Sonny Clark's Leapin' and Lopin' and a few others.

Reading other contributions here, I realise my experience in 1957-58 was untypical as it predated the mass emergence of the 12" vinyl album. But I did see something of the later era when from 1970 I started teaching (at the age of 30) in an art college and had 17-year-old students who were avid collectors of rock albums. Jazz was very out of favour with them - they openly mocked my Love Supreme album! So I was understandably puzzled when one of them rushed in raving about Miles Davis, of all people! He'd just bought an album that looked more like one of theirs than one of mine. It was Bitches Brew. Speaks volumes!

Streaming or discs?