Bill Stegmeyer playing saxophone
Bill Stegmeyer standing and playing saxophone with an unidentified band. Stegmeyer is looking forward and wearing a light colored suit.
Bob Haggart and Frank Trumbauer
Double bassist Bob Haggart and saxophonist Frank Trumbauer looking over music in a recording studio. Haggart and Trumbauer are both looking down at a music stand behind a Capitol Records microphone.
Bob Wilber and Sidney Bechet
Bob Wilber playing clarinet and Sidney Bechet playing soprano saxophone. Both are holding up their instruments as they play.
Boots Mussulli
Boots Mussulli standing and playing saxophone in front of several unidentified musicians. Mussulli is looking down while playing and wearing a white button shirt.
Boyd Raeburn
Boyd Raeburn and an unidentified man sitting in a studio by a microphone. Raeburn is wearing a checkered shirt and smiling at the other man who is wearing a plaid suit jacket.
Buddy DeFranco, Flip Philips, and Bill Harris
Buddy DeFranco playing clarinet, Flip Philips playing saxophone, and Bill Harris playing trombone in a Capitol recording studio.
Coleman Hawkins and Gene Rodgers
Coleman Hawkins speaking with Gene Rodgers during a studio session. Hawkins is wearing a checkered suit, looking down at music and holding a saxophone in one hand. Rodgers is wearing a pinstripe suit...
Coleman Hawkins and Meade "Lux" Lewis
Coleman Hawkins looking up and to the side while playing saxophone. Meade "Lux" Lewis is playing piano, looking up and to the side at Hawkins.
Four unidentified saxophonists
Four unidentified saxophonists wearing light colored suits and performing onstage. In front of each saxophonist is a clarinet on a stand.
Freddy Martin and Pat Erickson
Freddy Martin and Pat Erickson holding a record while talking. Martin is wearing a plaid suit. Erickson is wearing a t-shirt with musical notation designs.
Hal McIntyre and band members
Hal McIntyre (front, right) sitting with three band members in theater chairs. McIntyre is leaning forward and holding the chair in front of him.
Hal McIntyre Orchestra performing
Reed section of the Hal McIntyre Orchestra playing saxophones during a performance. Members shown include (left to right) John Hayes, Don Barrett (obscured), McIntyre, John Popa, and Johnny Turnbull.
Helen Forrest and Les Brown
Helen Forrest and Les Brown smiling and seated together at a dining table. Forrest is wearing a striped jacket, white bow, and floral headpiece. Brown is wearing a tuxedo jacket and bowtie.
Henry "Boots" Mussulli, Bob Cooper, and Al Anthony
Stan Kenton Orchestra members in performance, including Henry "Boots" Mussulli (far left), Bob Cooper (front center), an unidentified white man (behind Cooper), and Al Anthony (far right) playing...
Herb Jeffries and Jimmy Mundy
Herb Jeffries speaking with Jimmy Mundy. Jeffries is holding papers and wearing a sweater vest, looking at Mundy. Mundy is looking down and smoking a cigarette, wearing a dark shirt.
Jimmie Lunceford and Joe Thomas
Jimmie Lunceford holding a conducting baton and Joe Thomas playing saxophone in an unidentified venue.
Louis Armstrong and Dave Dexter
Louis Armstrong and Dave Dexter standing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. Armstrong is holding a trumpet and pointing at Dexter who is holding a pile of handkerchiefs.
Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan standing next to an unidentified African American man with one hand on the man's shoulder. Jordan is looking down and smiling, wearing a dark suit, patterned tie, and wide-brimmed hat.
Rudy Vallée and Paul Whiteman
Rudy Vallée and Paul Whiteman sitting at a table and playing with a toy note generator. Vallée is looking down and adjusting the machine while Whiteman holds a hand to his ear and looks up.
Sammy Kaye conducting
Sammy Kaye conducting a band of unidentified musicians on stage in front of a large crowd outdoors.
Sammy Kaye receiving prize
Sammy Kaye receiving a prize from a Signal Oil executive. Kaye is looking down and smiling while the unidentified executive wearing a pinstripe suit hands Kaye a piece of paper.
Stan Kenton Orchestra members checking luggage
Stan Kenton Orchestra members checking their luggage at a counter including Al Anthony (second from left) and Henry "Boots" Mussulli (third from left).
Tex Beneke and Buddy Basch with a group of young men and women
Tex Beneke and Buddy Basch standing in the center of a classroom smiling and surrounded by a group of seated young men and women identified as youth reporters.
Tex Beneke celebrating 31st birthday
Lillian Lane and the Crew Chiefs sing "Happy Birthday" to Tex Beneke (second from left), backed by members of the Glenn Miller band; Karen Lyon, wife of acrobat Ladd Lyon, holds a cake while...
Tex Beneke celebrating 31st birthday
Unidentified assistant theater manager, theater manager Harry Greenman, Tex Beneke, holding a piece of cake, Mrs. Sandra Beneke, Paul Regan, and Beneke's manager Don W. Haynes on Beneke's 31st...