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Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

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A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums as he wears sunglasses. In front of Bill and to...

Date Published
1951
1960

Helen Cole poses as she plays a drum set

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Helen Cole, an African American musician, grins at the photographer as she sits behind a drum set and crosses her hands to play. Her shadow is on the wall in the spotlight of light around her. She...

Date Published
1951
1960

Maureen Smith playing the piano

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Maureen Smith stands with her left side to the photographer and turns her head toward her left shoulder to smile at the photographer as she stands with her hands on the keys of a upright piano. She...

Date Published
1951
1960

Memphis Slim

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Jazz pianist Memphis Slim's head and shoulders are visible and he does not smile as he holds a microphone across his chest with his right hand and sits at a piano at an unidentified venue. There is a...

Date Published
1929
1931

Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band

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Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band at an unidentified venue in Kansas City. Farthest to the left Bunnie "Bumps" Love smiles to her right at the photographer as she sits with her hands on...

Date Published
1951
1960

Scamps

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A publicity photograph of the African American jazz group, Kansas City Scamps likely in the 1970's. From left to right, Lucky Wesley (bass, leader), Albert "Coots" Dye (piano), Arthur Jackson (alto...

Date Published
1971
1980