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Band playing on stage

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Unidentified band (trumpet player, two saxophonists, drummer, pianist) playing onstage as part of the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Buck's French American Band performing

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Members of Buck's French American Band performing on stage in Paris, France.

Date Published
1949
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Drummer and saxophonist for the play "Negroid Evolution"

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Unidentified drummer and saxophonist playing music for the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A third person can...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Mary Lou Williams

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Promotional portrait of Mary Lou Williams looking to the upper left of the photo wearing a patterned shirt.

Date Published
1940
1949
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

On stage in France

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Members of Buck's "French American Band" (Dave Pochonet, drums ; Andre Persiany, piano ; M. DeVillers, saxophone ; Charlie Blareau, bass ; J.P. Sasson...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Welcoming Hugues Panassié and his wife

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Happy Caldwell, Mezz Mezzrow, Buck Clayton, Sidney Bechet and Cliff Jackson are welcoming French jazz critic Hugues Panassié and his wife Madeleine...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
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  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (3)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (6)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Group portraits (5)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • Promotional photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (3)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • African American women composers (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (6)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Paris (France) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Persiany, André (2)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bishop, Wally, 1906-1986 (1)
  • Blareau, Charlie (1)
  • Caldwell, Happy, 1903-1978 (1)
  • Conrad, Armand (1)
  • Gautier, Madeleine, 1905- (1)
  • Hadjo, Georges (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • Kennedy, George (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Panassié, Hugues (1)
  • Pochonet, Gerard (1)
  • Sasson, J. P. (1)
  • Stepter, Merrill (1)
  • Villers, Michel de, 1926- (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)

Date Published

  • 1940 (1)
  • (-) 1949 (6)

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