Grand Emporium Collection

Jazz vocalist and flute player Andrienne Wilson closes her eyes and smiles with closed lips as she looks into light. She holds a microphone. She wears a t-shirt decorated with jazz items; a guitar, a...

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...

Jazz singer Ida McBeth looks up and to the right in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed on the upper right hand corner of the photograph, "Ida McBeth."

Jazz saxophonist Jeanette Harris hugs her saxophone to her right shoulder as she sits and smiles at the photographer. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Jeanette Harris. Management-Booking...

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...

A profile photograph of Joshua Redman, a jazz saxophone player, from his right side as the back of his head is outlined by the curve of the saxophone to the mouthpiece in a close-up, head-shot...

Joshua Redman, a jazz saxophone player, smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph where the top of his head is out of the photograph.

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.

Mark Whitfield, jazz guitarist, hunches over and looks down at a jazz guitar he is playing in a close-up photograph. A recording microphone hangs down by the strings of the guitar in front of a brick...

New Orleans jazz ensemble Michael Foster Project gather around a jukebox in Donna's Bar & Grill in New Orleans, Louisiana as they hold their instruments. Donna's Bar+Grill is painted on the wall...

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...

Michael Ward, jazz violinist, sits in a chair and leans forward as he holds a bow and a blue violin by the neck so that it hangs toward the ground. He rests his cheek on the fingers of his left hand...

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...