Benny Goodman seated at a dining table at the Palladium in Hollywood, California, speaking with an unidentified white man. Goodman is holding a cigarette and wearing a checkered suit.
Billy Butterfield turned to the side and speaking into a studio microphone hanging overhead during a possible recording session. Butterfield is wearing a white collared shirt and holding a trumpet out...
Billy Butterfield facing forward and playing trumpet with unidentified musicians facing away from camera. Butterfield is in behind stands holding music for the additional musicians.
Billy Butterfield playing looking up and trumpet into a studio microphone hanging overhead. Butterfield is holding a plunger mute over the trumpet bell.
Billy Butterfield closing his eyes while playing trumpet. Butterfield is in a studio with a checkered tile floor and is wearing a white collared shirt.
Billy Butterfield wearing a striped t-shirt and playing trumpet into a Capitol Records microphone hanging from the ceiling of a recording studio.
Billy Butterfield looking down to read some music in a studio while holding his trumpet. Behind Butterfield are music stands and a Capitol Records microphone,
Carmen Dragon conducting a studio orchestra during a rehearsal or recording. Dragon is raising both arms and leaning back with his eyes closed.
Freddy Martin (left) and Buddy DeSylva (right) standing next to a Blue Network microphone. Martin and DeSylva are smiling and looking at each other. Martin is wearing a pinstripe suite and black tie...
Hal Derwin looking down and singing into a Capitol Records studio microphone while holding music. Derwin is wearing a tweed suit jacket and floral print tie.
A slightly out of focus photograph from the side of Jimmy Dorsey playing clarinet. Dorsey is wearing a tuxedo and looking to the side.
A photograph from below of Jimmy Dorsey playing saxophone on stage with an unidentified musician in the back. Dorsey is wearing a tuxedo and is facing to the side.
Photograph from the side of Lennie Hayton conducting in front of an unidentified musician. Hayton is holding one arm up and to the side while looking down, wearing a tweed jacket and black tie.
Leopold Stokowski sitting and speaking with an unidentified white man and woman. Stokowski is on the right, holding a glass and smiling while the other two people talk.
Matt Dennis kneeling next to a playpen in a yard outside with his two children. Dennis is handing a block to one of the children seated in the playpen. The other child is standing in the corner...
Maurice Abravanel conducting with baton raised at the podium wearing tuxedo with white bowtie. Audience is out of focus in the background.
Paul Whiteman standing fourth from left and Mike Pingitore standing second from right in a recording studio with other unidentified musicians.
Lloyd Shaffer conducting and Perry Como singing during a recording session for Chesterfield Supper Club. Como is behind Schaffer looking at a music stand while singing into an NBC microphone.
Peter Nemo holding papers in front of an Armed Forces Radio Service microphone next to two unidentified white men. Nemo is wearing a light colored overcoat and dark suit with patterned tie.
Peter Nemo conducting musicians not shown in picture. Nemo is holding one hand at his side and waiving the other in the air. Nemo is wearing a light colored overcoat and dark suit with patterned tie.
