Warren Durrett Collection

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, 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'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...

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'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 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...

Warren Durrett in sunglasses, a coat, and pants, with a hand in his coat pocket, standing next to an unidentified white woman in a light suit holding a purse, and an unidentified white man in a suit...

Warren Durrett in an unzipped jacket and a T-shirt next to an unidentified dark-haired white woman in a button up dress, and an unidentified white man in suspenders, all standing in front of trees.

Warren Durrett, arms behind his back, in a dark jacket, light pants, and a striped tie, standing next to an unidentified white woman in a black coat and skirt wearing glasses, in front of a house.

Unidentified white woman in a coat standing next to Warren Durrett who has a hand in one pocket and a pipe in his mouth, standing on the side of the road by a forest. Two automobiles are parked on...

Warren Durrett standing in front of a house with an unidentified white woman in a dress. The image is slightly blurry.

Warren Durrett standing in front of a house with an unidentified white woman in a dress. The image is slightly blurry.

Lois Laur with a flower in her hair and Millie Mason each standing, with their arms on the shoulders of the men crouching in front of them: Ray Stinson in suspenders and a tie, and Warren Durrett in a...

Group of eight white boys (one likely in his teens and the rest pre-teens) standing in a sandwich shop, with an unidentified white man in the back left, and Warren Durrett in the back right. There are...

Three young children (two African American boys and one white boy), standing with Warren Durrett and another unidentified white man who is wearing a turtleneck, in a sandwich shop. There is a table in...

Group photo in front of a brick building from left to right: Warren Durrett with a hand on his hip; Barbara Garrett in a dark jacket with a light collar and a long skirt and hands behind her back...

Unidentified white woman in a diamond pattern shirt and glasses, leaning on an automobile with one arm around Durrett's shoulder. Durrett has one hand on his hip, and one hand around her waist. A...

Unidentified white woman in a hat and fur coat, smiling, standing next to Warren Durrett in a long coat with his hands in his coat pockets. They are standing in front of a brick building with...