Casa Loma Orchestra band leaders "Pee Wee" Hunt and Kenny Sargent wearing dark suits and smiling. Hunt is standing on the left wearing glasses and Sargent is on the right.
Nappy Lamare playing guitar and "Wingy" Manone playing trumpet in a studio with microphones in the background and foreground. Lamare is looking back at Manone who is facing forward.
A group photo of "Wingy" Manone's Band in a recording studio. Seated (left to right) are Nappy Lamare, "Wingy" Manone, and Matty Matlock. Standing (left to right, in back) are Abe Lincoln, Jake Flores...
Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy posing on stage for a photo. Musicians include Mary Lou Williams at the piano, John Harrington holding a saxophone, Ben Webster holding a saxophone, Pha Terrell...
Publicity photo of Helen Ward and Benny Goodman facing forward and smiling. Ward is wearing a satin dress and leaning against Goodman who is wearing a white suit and holding a clarinet under his arm.
Publicity photo of the Boogie-Woogie Boys featuring Pete Johnson, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Joe Turner, and Albert Ammons. All four are smiling, wearing tuxedoes with white handkerchiefs, and facing forward...
The Capitol Jazzmen posed for a group photo. In the back row are Artie Shapiro standing and leaning against a double bass, Joe Sullivan wearing a black tie and looking down, Jack Teagarden holding a...
Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's two sons at a piano. One is sitting and playing the piano while looking to the side. The other is standing and looking down.
Publicity photo of Count Basie at piano and Carmen Miranda holding percussive shaker at Command Performance. Basie is sitting at the piano wearing a white suit and looking forward. Miranda is standing...
Count Basie and his orchestra performing on stage. Basie is standing in front of musicians conducting. Orchestra musicians are seated at music shells with piano logo in front.
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...
Angled photo of Count Basie playing piano with Benny Goodman playing clarinet. Goodman is standing over Basie and looking forward. Studio equipment is in the background.
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...
Bil Burton seated in a sun chair on the beach with Dave Dexter leaning forward on the right. Burton and Dexter are at the beach with an unidentified man and woman.
Dave Dexter leaning back with eyes closed wearing a t-shirt and shorts. Dexter is laying back on Bil Burton who is seated on a sun chair and wearing no shirt.
Dave Dexter speaking with Maxine Gray in Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Dexter is holding a pencil and pad of paper and turned toward Gray. Gray is sitting back with a fur coat over her...
Dave Dexter and an unidentified reporter interviewing Sonja Henie. Dexter and Henie are sitting on a wicker sofa. Dexter is looking at Henie who is looking up and to the side.
Dave Dexter interviewing Sonja Henie while sitting on a wicker sofa. Dexter is holding a paper and pencil while looking at Henie who is looking up and to the side, wearing a fur coat.
Dave Dexter speaking with Benny Goodman at a dining table in the Waldorf-Astoria during the 1939 DownBeat awards ceremony. Dexter is seated second from left and holding a cigarette. Goodman is seated...
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.
Eddie Cantor, wearing a double breasted suit and tie, and an unidentified man holding a piece of paper together. Cantor is looking at the paper with an expression of wide-eyed amazement.
