Warren Durrett Collection

Warren Durrett in a suit, performing at the piano with an open lid. There is sheet music and a lamp on the piano, as well as a sign that says "Warren Durrett."

Warren Durrett playing piano with a Hammond Solovox attachment at LaSalle Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. Also playing, to the left of Durrett: Bob Wells (drums), John Brentari (bass), and Jimmy Van Asdell...

Warren Durrett performing at an upright piano with his orchestra. A saxophone is resting above the keyboard, and the hammers and strings of the piano are exposed. A sign reading "Warren Durrett and...

Warren Durrett seated at the piano, performing with his orchestra (white men in photo). Scores rest on top of the piano lid, along with a sign reading "Warren Durrett and His Orchestra." Standing in...

Warren Durrett seated at the piano, lid halfway open with music scores resting under the lid. A microphone is in front, and an unidentified white woman is seated to the right in a polka-dot dress...

Overhead shot of recording studio. In back left, Patty Tucker, unidentified white man, Marilyn Maye, Carol Johnston, and another unidentified white man are singing at a music stand. In front of them...

Warren Durrett at an upright piano on a stage, staring intently to the right. A hat is on top of the piano, and the hammers and strings of the piano are exposed. A small piece of paper is right above...

Warren Durrett, standing to the far left, performing on saxophone with his orchestra, all wearing light suits and long ties, with an unidentified white woman vocalist seated in front. The band members...

Warren Durrett seated at the piano in a blue suit. There is music on top of the piano, as well as a lamp and a sign that reads: "Warren Durrett." There are curtains hanging over windows in the...

Warren Durrett seated at the piano in a blue suit. There is music on top of the piano, as well as a lamp and a sign that reads: "Warren Durrett." There are curtains hanging over windows in the...

Warren Durrett's orchestra (all white men), performing in dark red suit jackets with black pants and bowties, with Warren Durrett seated off to the side at the piano in a silver suit jacket. Four band...

Warren Durrett in a jacket and a patterned sweater, leaning back on a fireplace mantle with a cigarette in his mouth. Two figurines of women are on the ends of the mantle, the wall is coated in leaf...

Unidentified white woman and Warren Durrett seated, turned around, arms resting on some type of cushion. In the foreground is a structure of thin wooden sticks, and to the right is a wall and a gutter...

Warren Durrett seated in a chair on the front porch of a brick house. There is a door to the left and a window to the right, as well as another chair that is perpendicular to Durrett.

Warren Durrett in a suit and sunglasses, sitting on a railing in front of the water with one hand in his pocket and the other on his lap. A large ship and a few smaller boats are in the water.

Photo from the waist up of Warren Durrett in a patterned sweater, seated next to a smiling woman in a sleeveless shirt with one arm interlocked with Durrett's. They are on the edge of a small boat...

Warren Durrett in a patterned sweater holding something in his hand, seated next to a woman in a sleeveless shirt with one arm interlocked with Durrett's. They are on the edge of a small boat that is...

Warren Durrett in sunglasses and a long coat, standing in front of a cruise ship. The ramp to board, reading "Catalina" is behind and to the left, and there are people (all white) looking over the...

Warren Durrett standing in a white T-shirt in front of a dark car on the side of the road, with a house in the background and a car parked in front of it. A person is visible behind the dark car and...

Warren Durrett standing and smiling, wearing a zip-up jacket, a tie, and long pants, in Swope Park. There are trees, a lamp post, and a building in the background.

Blurry photo of Warren Durrett in a long sleeve shirt and pants with rolled up legs, standing in ankle-deep water at the beach, with a small wave cresting in the background.

Warren Durrett in a suit and tie, standing outside next to an unidentified white woman, perhaps his sister, who is wearing a coat. Trees and a house are visible in the background.

Unidentified older white woman, perhaps Durrett's mother, in a coat and glasses, standing outside and turned towards Durrett. Trees are visible in the distance.

Group of people standing in two rows in front of trees. Back: Warren Durrett; unidentified white man with arms wrapped around the waist of the unidentified white woman in front of him; unidentified...

Group of smiling people standing in front of trees. From left to right: Warren Durrett in an unzipped jacket; a unidentified dark-haired white woman in a dress; an unidentified white man in a striped...