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"Joe Liggins Leader of the Famous Honeydrippers"

Image

Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Al Casey playing guitar

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Al Casey leaning back and seated with his legs crossed in a studio with a piano in the background. Casey is playing the guitar on his lap and looking...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Al Casey, Dave Dexter, Horace Henderson, and Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett

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Al Casey, Dave Dexter, Horace Henderson, and Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett sitting shoulder to shoulder against a studio wall. All are leaning forward and...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Al Jarvis and Duke Ellington

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Al Jarvis looking at music with Duke Ellington. Jarvis is holding music for "We'll Be Together Again" and looking down while Ellington looks at the...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Al Sears

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Al Sears sitting and looking at a music stand while playing a saxophone. Sears is wearing a vest and tie.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Arnett Cobb playing saxophone

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Arnett Cobb photographed from a low angle looking forward and playing a saxophone into a microphone. Cobb is wearing a light suit and tie and with...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Art Tatum

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Art Tatum playing piano in a recording studio with unidentified people in the background watching. Tatum is looking ahead and smiling, wearing a light...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Art Tatum

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Art Tatum playing a piano while looking up and smoking a cigarette. Tatum is wearing a plaid suit jacket.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Baby Dodds playing drums

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A photograph from above of Baby Dodds playing drums during a studio session. Dodds is seated and looking down while holding drum sticks up.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard

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Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard laughing and talking in a recording studio. Brown is holding a double bass and shaking...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard

Image

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard standing shoulder to shoulder. All are wearing dark suits and smiling. Gaillard is holding...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Barney Bigard and musicians rehearsing

Image

Ed Garland playing bass, Barney Bigard playing clarinet, Dave Dexter looking down and smiling, Zutty Singleton (drummer) looking to the side and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Barney Bigard and musicians rehearsing

Image

Ed Garland playing bass, Barney Bigard playing clarinet, Dave Dexter looking down and smiling, Zutty Singleton (drummer) standing and grinning, Norman...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Barney Bigard and musicians rehearsing

Image

Bud Scott playing guitar, Ed Garland playing bass, Shorty Haughton playing trombone, Barney Bigard playing clarinet, Fred Washington seated and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Benny Carter playing saxophone in rehearsal

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Benny Carter facing forward and looking to the side while playing saxophone, possibly in a rehearsal. In the background are several musicians playing...

Date Published
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Benny Carter seated by his instruments

Image

Benny Carter seated, holding music, and looking up while talking. At his feet are a trumpet, saxophone, and clarinet on stands.

Date Published
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Benny Carter wearing wool suit

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Benny Carter seated and looking forward while smiling. Carter is wearing a wool suit and holding a saxophone across his chest with one hand.

Date Published
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Big Joe Turner

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Big Joe Turner standing against a curtain wall looking to the side and smiling. Turner is raising one hand and pointing. He is wearing a light colored...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Big Joe Turner

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Big Joe Turner standing against a stage curtain pointing one hand up and to the side while smiling. Turner is wearing a light colored, double-breasted...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Big Joe Turner

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Big Joe Turner standing against a wall with patterned wallpaper. Turner is wearing a pinstripe suit and a striped tie.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bill Coleman playing trumpet

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Bill Coleman photographed from the side playing trumpet in a studio. Colman is wearing a white shirt and paisley tie.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington

Image

Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday sitting and looking over music. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder patch and a white hair wrap. Ellington...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday, Dave Dexter, Al Jarvis, an unidentified man, and Duke Ellington

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Billie Holiday, Dave Dexter, Al Jarvis, an unidentified man, and Duke Ellington sitting at a studio table with KFW microphones. Holiday is wearing a...

Date Published
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Dave Dexter

Image

Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Dave Dexter looking over music on the piano. Ellington is sitting at the piano, wearing a pinstripe suit. Holiday...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Buck Clayton holding his trumpet

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Buck Clayton holding a trumpet.

Date Published
1945
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (201)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (3)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (208)
  • posters (1)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (208)
  • Gelatin silver prints (208)
  • Portrait photographs (193)
  • Snapshots (144)
  • Group portraits (81)
  • Publicity photographs (63)
  • Concert posters (1)
  • Film negatives (1)
  • Lithographs (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Safety film negatives (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (206)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Pianists (48)
  • Jazz musicians (45)
  • African American men (39)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (29)
  • Saxophonists (26)
  • Trumpet players (22)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (18)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Gifted children (9)
  • Jazz singers (7)
  • Male singers (7)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Trombonists (7)
  • African American women (5)
  • Boys (5)
  • Conductors (Music) (5)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Vibraphonists (5)
  • African American children (4)
  • Actors (3)
  • Baseball players (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Academic costume (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Baseball teams (1)
  • Baseball uniforms (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Comedians (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Dance music (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (209)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (26)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (22)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (15)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (13)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (10)
  • Robinson, Sugar Chile, 1940- (9)
  • Hampton, Lionel (7)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (6)
  • Bigard, Barney (5)
  • Catlett, Sid, 1910-1951 (5)
  • Dickenson, Vic (5)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (5)
  • Stewart, Rex, 1907-1967 (5)
  • Carter, Benny (4)
  • Garland, Ed (4)
  • Haughton, Shorty (4)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (4)
  • Liggins, Joe (4)
  • Lovett, Baby (4)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (4)
  • Moore, Oscar (4)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (4)
  • Scott, Bud, 1890-1949 (4)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (4)
  • Washington, Freddie (4)
  • Williams, Cootie (4)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (3)
  • Bowden, Norman (3)
  • Casey, Al (3)
  • Cavanaugh, Dave (3)
  • Gaillard, Slim (3)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (3)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (3)
  • Lee, Julia, 1902-1958 (3)
  • Miller, Johnny (Double bassist) (3)
  • Price, Jesse, 1909-1974 (3)
  • Tatum, Art, 1909-1956 (3)
  • Alexander, Joe (Vocalist) (2)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (2)
  • Brown, Bam (2)
  • Carney, Harry (2)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (2)
  • Dameron, Tadd, 1917-1965 (2)
  • Garner, Erroll (2)
  • Hodges, Johnny (2)
  • Holland, Peanuts (2)
  • Miller, Eddie, 1911-1991 (2)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (2)
  • Sears, Al, 1910-1990 (2)
  • Sherock, Shorty, 1915-1980 (2)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (2)
  • Watson, Leo, 1898-1950 (2)
  • Wilson, Gerald, 1918-2014 (2)
  • Young, Trummy (2)
  • Bailey, Buster (1)
  • Bennett, Tony, 1926- (1)
  • Brown, Lawrence, 1907-1988 (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (1)
  • Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 (1)
  • Clarke, Kenny, 1914-1985 (1)
  • Cobb, Arnett, 1918-1989 (1)
  • Coleman, Bill, 1904-1981 (1)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (1)
  • Crawford, Jimmy (1)
  • Crawford, Traverse, 1916-1975 (1)
  • Dodds, Baby, 1898-1959 (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Fatool, Nick, 1915-2000 (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (1)
  • Foster, Pops, 1892-1969 (1)
  • Gaines, Lee, 1914-1987 (1)
  • Garland, Red (1)
  • Garrette, Duke (1)
  • Greer, Sonny (1)
  • Hardwick, Otto, 1904-1970 (1)
  • Henderson, Horace (1)
  • Heywoood, Eddie, 1915-1989 (1)
  • Holland, Clinton (1)
  • Horne, Lena (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • Johnson, James P. (James Price) 1894-1955 (1)
  • Johnson, Leonard Jack (1)
  • Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970 (1)
  • Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 (1)
  • Jones, Claude (1)
  • Jordan, Taft, 1915-1981 (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • Kirby, John, 1908-1952 (1)
  • Kriegsmann, James J. (1)
  • Leadbelly, 1885-1949 (1)
  • Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972 (1)
  • Lewis, Harry, 1914-1984 (1)
  • Marsala, Joe, 1907-1978 (1)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (1)
  • Moore, Gatemouth, 1913-2004 (1)
  • Moore, Johnny, 1906-1969 (1)
  • Morton, Benny (1)
  • Myers, Bumps, 1912-1968 (1)
  • Nanton, Tricky Sam, 1904-1946 (1)
  • Navarro, Fats, 1923-1950 (1)
  • Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988 (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Powell, Jimmy, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Purnell, Keg, 1914-1965 (1)
  • Rae, Bob (1)
  • Rigney, Bill, 1918-2001 (1)
  • Roach, Max, 1924-2007 (1)
  • Robinson, Les, 1914-2005 (1)
  • Rodgers, Gene (1)
  • Rogers, Timmie (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Salisbury, George, 1918-1986 (1)
  • Simmons, John, 1918-1979 (1)
  • Smith, Stacey (Musician) (1)
  • Smith, Willie, 1910-1967 (1)
  • Strayhorn, Billy (1)
  • Thomas, Joe, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Thompson, Lucky, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Tucker, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Walder, Herman (1)
  • Walder, Woody (1)
  • Washington, Jack, 1910-1964 (1)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (1)
  • Wettling, George, 1907-1968 (1)
  • Wiggins, Gerald (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Yancey, Jimmy, 1898-1951 (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (104)
  • 1950 (91)
  • 1955 (1)
  • (-) 1945 (209)

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