Warren Durrett Collection

Three unidentified white male saxophonists of the Warren Durrett Orchestra performing behind music stands for the 1946 University of Kansas City Convocation. There are tall windows on the wall next to...

Warren Durrett Orchestra (all white men in photo) performing behind music stands for the 1946 University of Kansas City Convocation. In the back is a drummer and a guitarist. In the middle row are...

Warren Durrett orchestra (white men) performing in rows behind music stands. Back row: two violins, double bass, four trumpets. Middle row: two violins, drums, four trombones. Front row: two violins...

Warren Durrett Orchestra (all white men in the photo) standing and performing at their music stands reading "WD". There is a piano at the left, a bassist, and a row with Warren Durrett and four other...

Warren Durrett standing to the left of his orchestra (one African American man, the rest white men), looking at an unidentified white woman vocalist who is standing at a microphone in front of the...

Warren Durrett with sunglasses and rolled up sleeves, seated at the piano, performing outside. A man is standing in the background, and there are trees behind him.

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...

Portrait of Warren Durrett with alto saxophone wearing suit and tie, looking downward.

Portrait of Warren Durrett with alto saxophone wearing suit and tie, looking downward.

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 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's orchestra, seated in rows behind stands on an elevated stage in front of a large curtain. Band members (all white men) are playing their instruments and wearing black suits with...

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.