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

Image

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

Count Basie, Jo Jones and Walter Page performing

Image

Count Basie seated playing piano with Jo Jones playing drums and Walter Page playing bass; all are looking over the left side of the photo; sheets of...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Ed Garland playing bass

Image

Ed Garland facing forward and looking down while playing bass in the studio. Garland is wearing a white collared shirt and suspenders.

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

Jack Lesberg

Image

Jack Lesberg, Eddie Condon's solid-rocking bass player, shown as he appears in t he March of Time film, "Night Club Boom," has been featured with...

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

John Kirby playing bass

Image

John Kirby looking to the side and playing bass. Kirby is wearing a checkered suit and black tie.

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

Milt Abel under a tree

Image

Milt Abel crouching under a tree in front of a large building in Philadelphia. He's wearing a light colored suit and a hat.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Ray Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie

Image

Ray Brown playing bass, Ella Fitzgerald singing into a microphone, and Dizzy Gillespie looking at Fitzgerald from the side during an outdoor...

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

Tommy Potter and Charlie Parker

Image

Tommy Potter playing double bass and Charlie Parker playing saxophone. Potter is close to the camera and Parker appears in between Potter and the neck...

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

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (6)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (8)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (8)
  • Gelatin silver prints (8)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Group portraits (4)
  • Portrait photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (8)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • African American men (6)
  • Double bass (3)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Double bassists (8)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Brown, Bam (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (1)
  • Gaillard, Slim (1)
  • Garland, Ed (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kirby, John, 1908-1952 (1)
  • Lesberg, Jack (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988 (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (6)
  • 1941 (2)
  • (-) 1950 (8)

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