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Benny Carter wearing white suit

Image

Headshot of Benny Carter at an angle looking forward. Carter is wearing a white suit and black tie while holding a saxophone across his chest with one...

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Benny Carter wearing white suit

Image

Publicity photo of Benny Carter leaning forward and looking to the side. Carter is wearing white suit and black tie.

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Danny Kaye leading band of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong, and Lionel Hampton

Image

Danny Kaye performing with a band featuring Benny Goodman playing clarinet, Tommy Dorsey playing trombone, Charlie Barnet playing saxophone, Louis...

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dizzy Gillespie

Image

Illustration print featuring a caricature of Dizzy Gillespie drawn for the 4th Cavalcade of Jazz in Los Angeles, September 12, 1948. The drawing shows...

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Helen Forrest and Les Brown

Image

Helen Forrest and Les Brown smiling and seated together at a dining table. Forrest is wearing a striped jacket, white bow, and floral headpiece. Brown...

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Pete Daily and his Chicagoans seated and standing with their instruments

Image

Pete Daily and his Chicagoans seated and standing with their instruments. Standing in back are Dick Fisher holding a banjo, two unidentified men...

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
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  • 1948
  • Jazz musicians

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (6)

Types

  • photographs (5)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (5)
  • Gelatin silver prints (5)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Group portraits (3)
  • Caricatures (1)
  • Drawings (1)
  • Illustrations (1)
  • Snapshots (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (6)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • Conductors (Music) (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • (-) Jazz musicians (6)

Subjects, People

  • Carter, Benny (2)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Barnet, Charlie (1)
  • Brown, Les, 1912-2001 (1)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (1)
  • Forrest, Helen (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Kaye, Danny (1)

Events

  • Cavalcade of Jazz (4th : 1948 : Los Angeles, California) (1)

Date Published

  • (-) 1948 (6)

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