Artie Shaw and Dave Dexter looking at artifacts taken by Shaw during his service tour in the South Pacific. Shaw is wearing a formal armed services suit and tie. Dexter is wearing a lighter colored...
Artie Shaw and Dave Dexter holding a Japanese flag covered in writing. Shaw is holding a cigarette and wearing a formal armed services suit and tie. Dexter is standing on the right, wearing a lighter...
Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey talking with an unidentified man. Shaw is standing in the center holding his clarinet while looking down at a case held by Dorsey. Both Shaw and Dorsey are smoking...
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.
Benny Goodman and his sextet performing on stage. Goodman is facing to the side and wearing a white suit. All others on stage are wearing black suits. The caption below advertises a PBS special filmed...
Bill Stegmeyer sitting on a chair and playing clarinet with other unidentified studio musicians holding flutes. Stegmeyer is looking down at a music stand and wearing a striped tie draped over his...
Bob Wilber playing clarinet and Sidney Bechet playing soprano saxophone. Both are holding up their instruments as they play.
Buddy DeFranco playing clarinet, Flip Philips playing saxophone, and Bill Harris playing trombone in a Capitol recording studio.
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.
Publicity photo for Lucky Millinder and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band featuring Buster Bailey on clarinet with three other musicians.
Rosy McHargue (far left), Paul Weston (second from left) and a group of unidentified musicians standing around a piano holding instruments for a photo in a recording studio.
Publicity photo of Woody Herman turning to the side next to a microphone on stage. Herman is holding a saxophone with one hand. Several unidentified musicians are in the background.
Woody Herman looking up and talking to an unidentified man wearing sunglasses who is holding papers.
Woody Herman holding a telephone receiver and looking down while smiling. Dave Dexter is standing next to Herman, leaning toward the receiver and listening in.
Dave Dexter sitting at a typewriter, looking down and typing. Woody Herman is leaning over Dexter's shoulder, looking at the typewriter, and smiling.
Woody Herman sitting with Dave Dexter at a desk. Dexter is looking down and typing at a typewriter. Herman is looking at the typewriter and pointing with one hand.
Woody Herman and José Iturbi sitting on a piano bench and talking. Herman is wearing a herringbone jacket and smiling with one hand on the piano keys. Iturbi is smoking a pipe and looking at Herman...
Woody Herman dressed as Santa Claus, looking forward with his cheeks puffed out and holding a clarinet with both hands. Dave Dexter is standing next to Herman, looking down and smiling.
Woody Herman playing clarinet while looking down at a piano. An unidentified woman, wearing a fur coat, sitting at the piano and an unidentified man in back, wearing a dark suit, are looking at Herman...
Woody Herman on stage at the Hollywood Palladium. Herman is turning toward the musicians and looking down while preparing to play the clarinet. Several unidentified musicians are partially visible in...
