Grand Emporium Collection

Count Basie smiles as he looks down and raises his right hand as Dave Brubeck looks at Count Basie and laughs at the story. Other members of the crowd are visible all around them. Count Basie wears a...

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, jazz saxophone player, sits on a barstool while performing, and Jim Ericson, drummer, peeks out over his drum set while performing on Thanksgiving night at the Grand Emporium...

The Jive Aces, a British jazz, blues, and swing band comprised of six white men, all jump at once while holding their instruments. They all wear bright yellow business suits. It appears they are on a...

The Jive Aces, a British jazz, blues, and swing band comprised of six white men, all jump at once while holding their instruments. They all wear bright yellow business suits. It appears they are on a...

The Manhattan Transfer, a vocal jazz group comprised of two white women and two white men, who sit on a bench and smile up at the camera. Photograph is printed on top of a contemporary art swirl.

Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, a funk, soul, and jazz band comprised of three African American men, and five white men, stand on stairs in colorful costumes. Printed in the margin below the...

Pharaohs with Sir Charles L. "Ki" Handy, in a montage of photographs on top of hand drawn logos of African American (likely) musicians and one white male percussionist. Handwritten in the margin below...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, kneels behind the microphone stand and holds the microphone in his left hand as he performs at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Bryan Hicks is playing...