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Count Basie playing with Benny Goodman

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Angled photo of Count Basie playing piano with Benny Goodman playing clarinet. Goodman is standing over Basie and looking forward. Studio equipment is...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Duke Ellington

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Headshot of Duke Ellington looking to the side. Ellington is wearing a dark suit and tie.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Duke Ellington

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Publicity photo of Duke Ellington looking forward and smiling while standing against a wall with hands in his pockets. Ellington is wearing a tuxedo...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Duke Ellington at the piano

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Publicity photo from the side of Duke Ellington sitting at the piano with hands on the keys. Ellington is wearing a tuxedo.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines

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Caricature of Earl Hines's head smiling with a bowtie. Drawn by George Wachsteter.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines

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Publicity photo for Earl Hines and his orchestra featuring photo of Hines sitting and facing forward while smiling. Hines is wearing a white suit and...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines and his orchestra

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Publicity photo for Earl Hines and his orchestra featuring headshot of Hines looking up and smiling. Hines is wearing a white tuxedo and black bowtie.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter

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Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter standing around a radio (or possibly a phonograph) looking down at a record in Dexter's hand at Basie's...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ed Heywood

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Publicity photo of Ed Heywood turning to the side and facing forward while smiling. Heywood is wearing a patterned suit and smiling.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Horace Henderson

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Publicity photo of Horace Henderson sitting in front of a piano with one arm resting on the top of the piano. Henderson is facing forward with a...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Horace Henderson seated at a piano

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Horace Henderson photographed from the side sitting at a piano during performance in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson is looking up and smiling, wearing a...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ivy Anderson and Leon Rene rehearsing music

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Ivy Anderson leaning on a piano looking at music and Leon Rene playing the piano while smiling during a rehearsal in a studio. An NBC microphone hangs...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jay McShann and band members

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Jay McShann seated at the piano with his band standing around it; McShann (at piano) with Bill Nolan, Walter Brown, Charlie Parker, Bob Mabane...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano

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Jay McShann and band performing: Gene Ramey (bass), McShann (piano), Gus Johnson (drums), Walter Brown (vocals), Bud Gould (trombone), unidentified...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jess Stacy

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Jess Stacy sitting at a dining table and looking to the side with his head resting on one hand. Stacy is wearing a pinstripe suit.

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jimmy Johnson and his band

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Jimmy Johnson and His Band against a wall mural; drum is also painted with a nature scene.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Jimmy Yancey

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Jimmy Yancey standing against a wooden wall, looking to the side. Yancey is wearing a light colored suit, vest, and newsboy hat.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Joe Reichman

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Publicity photo of Joe Reichman standing at a piano with one hand resting on it. Reichman is looking forward and smiling, wearing a dark suit jacket...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Joe Reichman

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Publicity photo of Joe Reichman conducting behind a piano. Reichman is looking forward and smiling with both hands in the air, wearing a black tuxedo...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Joe Sanders

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Publicity photo of Joe Sanders sitting on the back of a chair looking to the side and smiling. Sanders is wearing a light colored suit.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner

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Pete Johnson playing piano and Big Joe Turner singing into a microphone on stage at the Café Society in New York.

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Teddy Wilson

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Teddy Wilson playing piano in front of unidentified musicians. Wilson is looking down and smiling, wearing a white suit.

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Thomas "Fats" Waller

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Thomas "Fats" Waller playing piano in a recording studio with a microphone hanging overhead. Waller is looking at music on the piano and smiling...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Unidentified man playing piano

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An unidentified man looking up and smiling while playing piano. Writing on photo labels man as "fair-haired boy."

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Unidentified older woman in front of the stage

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Unidentified woman at an unidentified fraternal organization event wearing a fez and white evening gown with long white gloves and facing the left of...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 1940
  • Pianists

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (21)
  • Jay McShann Collection (3)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Portrait photographs (20)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Publicity photographs (10)
  • Group portraits (8)
  • Drawings (1)
  • Illustrations (1)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (23)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (19)
  • Jazz musicians (12)
  • African American men (8)
  • Piano (4)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Banjoists (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • (-) Pianists (25)

Subjects, People

  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (4)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (2)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (2)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (2)
  • Henderson, Horace (2)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (2)
  • Ramey, Gene (2)
  • Reichman, Joe, 1898-1970 (2)
  • Anderson, Ivie (1)
  • Baird, Taswell (1)
  • Bruce, Harold (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Fergenson, Harold (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Gould, Bud (1)
  • Heywoood, Eddie, 1915-1989 (1)
  • Jackson, John (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955 (1)
  • Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 (1)
  • Mabane, Bob (1)
  • Minor, Orville (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • René, Leon, 1902-1982 (1)
  • Sanders, Joe, 1896-1965 (1)
  • Stacy, Jess, 1904-1995 (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Wachsteter, George, 1911-2004 (1)
  • Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 (1)
  • Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986 (1)
  • Yancey, Jimmy, 1898-1951 (1)

Date Published

  • 1935 (14)
  • 1931 (2)
  • (-) 1940 (25)

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