Charles "Cootie" Williams photographed from the side playing trumpet in front of an unidentified musician. Williams is holding a mute in the trumpet bell. Williams is wearing a white shirt with...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams standing in front of a wooden barn. Williams is wearing a dark jacket and looking forward.
Count Basie shaking hands with Joe Belford at the Roseland Ballroom. Basie is smiling and looking up. Belford is wearing a pinstripe suit and patterned tie.
Count Basie Orchestra members in performance including (left) Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, and Jack Washington playing saxophone; Freddie Green playing guitar, and Walter Page playing double bass. All...
Dave Dexter, Andy Kirk, and an unidentified man standing together drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. Dexter is wearing a vest and looking forward. Kirk is standing in the center looking to the...
Pete Johnson, Dave Dexter, and Big Joe Turner during recording session for Decca Records "Kansas City Jazz" album produced by Dexter in New York City. Johnson is sitting at the piano and looking down...
Left to right: Dave Dexter, wearing a pinstripe suit; jazz critic, Leonard Feather; Benny Carter, wearing a light suit and talking into a microphone; and Milt Gabler, record producer; all seated at a...
Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter standing around a radio (or possibly a phonograph) looking down at a record in Dexter's hand at Basie's birthday celebration.
Ed Flynn, wearing a light suit and tie, and Benny Carter, wearing a tuxedo, seated on a couch. Dave Dexter is crouched next to Carter wearing a pinstripe suite and smiling.
Fletcher Henderson photographed from the side playing piano while looking up and smiling. A group of unidentified musicians stand in the background.
A side photograph of Fletcher Henderson looking down while playing the piano. Henderson is wearing a light colored suit and black tie.
Harry Carney wearing a striped suit and patterned tie, looking down while playing clarinet next to a Blue Network microphone.
Herschel Evans holding a saxophone while leaning down to grab music on a stand. Freddie Green holds a guitar in the background while looking forward and smiling.
Horace Henderson photographed from the side sitting at a piano during performance in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson is looking up and smiling, wearing a pinstripe suit and striped tie.
Ivy Anderson leaning on a piano looking at music and Leon Rene playing the piano while smiling during a rehearsal in a studio. An NBC microphone hangs from above.
Jimmie Lunceford, Alan Courtney, and Billy Eckstine sitting at a table with a microphone. Courtney is placing his fingers in his ears. Lunceford and Eckstine are looking at Courtney and smiling.
Jimmy Harrison sitting in front of a curtain facing forward and looking to the side. Harrison is wearing a dark jacket, patterned tie, and cap.
Jimmy Yancey standing against a wooden wall, looking to the side. Yancey is wearing a light colored suit, vest, and newsboy hat.
An unidentified musician holding an alto saxophone next to Lester Young who is playing a tenor saxophone. Both men are sitting on chairs in front of a piano.
Lester Young playing saxophone. Young is holding the saxophone up and to the side while playing. Young is wearing a dark colored suit jacket.
Pete Johnson playing piano and Big Joe Turner singing into a microphone on stage at the Café Society in New York.
Angled photograph of Red Callender looking up while playing bass on a stage with other unidentified players. Callender is wearing a dark suit.
Teddy Wilson playing piano in front of unidentified musicians. Wilson is looking down and smiling, wearing a white suit.
Thomas "Fats" Waller playing piano in a recording studio with a microphone hanging overhead. Waller is looking at music on the piano and smiling. Waller is wearing a light colored vest and dotted...
