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Andy Russell and Eileen Barton

Image

Andy Russell and Eileen Barton standing in front of a stage curtain. Russell is holding a microphone and looking forward with a loving expression...

Date Published
1945
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bill Stegmeyer and unidentified musicians

Image

Bill Stegmeyer sitting on a chair and playing clarinet with other unidentified studio musicians holding flutes. Stegmeyer is looking down at a music...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

Image

Billie Holiday straightening a tie for Louis Armstrong in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is holding a trumpet in his...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billy Butterfield playing trumpet in studio

Image

Billy Butterfield wearing a striped t-shirt and playing trumpet into a Capitol Records microphone hanging from the ceiling of a recording studio.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billy Butterfield reading music and holding trumpet

Image

Billy Butterfield looking down to read some music in a studio while holding his trumpet. Behind Butterfield are music stands and a Capitol Records...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Wilber and Sidney Bechet

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Bob Wilber playing clarinet and Sidney Bechet playing soprano saxophone. Both are holding up their instruments as they play.

Date Published
1946
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Buck Clayton and others

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Buck Clayton on stage playing trumpet with an unidentified bass player in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart in the green room

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Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart; New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton Benny Morton and others

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Buck Clayton, trumpet with: Benny Morton, Jack Butler, Mezz Mezzrow, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Barefield, Cliff Jackson with microphone and the man seated...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Illinois Jacquet and others

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Illinois Jacquet, Trummy Young and Buck Clayton performing in a row, on stage in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Coleman Hawkins playing saxophone

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Coleman Hawkins on stage playing saxophone with an unidentified bass player in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Coleman Hawkins playing saxophone

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Coleman Hawkins on stage playing saxophone with Roy Eldridge, trumpet and unidentified bassist and pianist in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Curly Howard and Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

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Curly Howard sitting and playing saxophone while looking dubiously at Louis Jordan who is smiling and approaching Howard with two fingers pointed out...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Della Norell, Lila Seaman, Bullets Durgom, and Andy Russell

Image

Della Norell, Lila Seaman, Bullets Durgom, and Andy Russell sitting at a dining table surrounded by unidentified patrons at the Copacabana in New York...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Drummer and bassist

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An unidentified African American male bass player and white male drummer performing on stage in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Hal Otis

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Harold Otvos [Hal Otis] looking forward and holding his violin and bow with both hands while smiling. Otvos is wearing a light colored suit and black...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Harry James with birthday cake

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Harry James blowing out candles on a birthday cake for his 30th birthday. James is leaning over the cake with Betty Grable directly behind him...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Helen Humes sings

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Shot from off stage of Helen Humes singing with Trummy Young, trombone, Buck Clayton, trumpet and unidentified bassist in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Illinois Jacquet

Image

Illinois Jacquet on stage with sunglasses playing saxophone with an unidentified bass player in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Illinois Jacquet

Image

Illinois Jacquet on stage playing saxophone with unidentified bassist and pianist seen.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Illinois Jacquet plays saxophone

Image

Illinois Jacquet on stage playing saxophone with an unidentified bass player in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Jo Ann Tally headshot

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Headshot of Jo Ann Tally with flower in her hair. Printed text below left reads: "JO ANN TALLY Featured with BOB STRONG and his Orchestra." Below...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Jo Ann Tally portrait

Image

Full-body portrait of Jo Ann Tally in a dress, arms behind her back, looking off to the right. Printed text below left reads: "JO ANN TALLY Featured...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Joe Rushton

Image

Joe Rushton looking forward while playing bass saxophone in a studio. Rushton is wearing a sweater vest.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Joe Sullivan, Zutty Singleton, Nappy Lamare, and Doc Rando

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Joe Sullivan, Zutty Singleton, Nappy Lamare, and Doc Rando sitting left to right at a restaurant table in Los Angeles, California.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (23)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (18)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (5)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (48)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (48)
  • Gelatin silver prints (48)
  • Snapshots (38)
  • Group portraits (35)
  • Portrait photographs (21)
  • Publicity photographs (6)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (25)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • Trumpet players (16)
  • Jazz musicians, White (15)
  • Saxophonists (12)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Trombonists (11)
  • African American men (10)
  • Double bassists (10)
  • Clarinetists (7)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Conductors (Music) (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Actresses (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • Women jazz singers (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Comedians (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Jazz ensembles (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Teenage boys, White (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) Jazz musicians (48)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Estes Park (Colo.) (2)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (9)
  • Young, Trummy (7)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (6)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (3)
  • Butler, Jack, 1909- (3)
  • Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989 (3)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (3)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (3)
  • Stewart, Rex, 1907-1967 (3)
  • Butterfield, Billy, 1917-1988 (2)
  • Dane, Patricia, 1919-1995 (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (2)
  • Durrett, Warren (2)
  • Kersey, Kenny, 1916-1983 (2)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (2)
  • Tally, Jo Ann (2)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Barefield, Eddie, 1909-1991 (1)
  • Barton, Eileen (1)
  • Buckner, Milt (1)
  • Clayton, Patricia (1)
  • De Paris, Wilbur (1)
  • Durgom, George (1)
  • Gay, Ruth Anne (1)
  • Grable, Betty, 1916-1973 (1)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (1)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (1)
  • Howard, Curly Joe, 1910-1993 (1)
  • Humes, Helen (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Jones, Jonah, 1909-2000 (1)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • Kyser, Kay (1)
  • Lamare, Nappy (1)
  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (1)
  • McHargue, Rosy, 1902-1999 (1)
  • Morton, Benny (1)
  • Norell, Della (1)
  • Otis, Hal (1)
  • Rando, Doc (1)
  • Riggs, Tommy (1)
  • Rushton, Joe (1)
  • Seaman, Lila (1)
  • Simms, Ginny (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Stegmeyer, Bill, 1916-1968 (1)
  • Sullivan, Joe, 1906-1971 (1)
  • Wilber, Bob (1)

Date Published

  • 1949 (2)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • (-) 1946 (48)

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