Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Singer Carolyn Grey sitting on a stool and looking at music while smiling with Shorty Sherock standing behind her playing trumpet. In front is an NBC microphone and conducting podium.

Toddler on lap of singing star Joan Edwards is daughter Judy Ann, casting an appraising eye over music Mark Warnow is rehearsing for Columbia network's "Your Hit Parade" (from photo caption).

Publicity photo of the vocal jazz group, the Modernaires, joking around with a trumpet.

Opie Cates looking down at music on a podium while conducting. Cates is wearing a suit and large patterned tie while holding a baton in the air with one hand and a cigarette in his other hand. Judy...