Count Basie's band
Buck Clayton performing with the Basie band, Basie on piano, on a stage with a large drawing of a show girl behind them.
Buck Clayton performing with the Basie band, Basie on piano, on a stage with a large drawing of a show girl behind them.
Ed Dix stands at the left holding a baton as bandleader for the big band set up next to him. The band members are all white, all men, except for the...
Ed Dix (left) in a line in front of a microphone with four others (three white men, one white woman) and big band members behind them.
Promotional photograph from the torso up of the Four Noteables. Warren Durrett (left) , an unidentified white man (center), and Jim Hammer (right) in...
The Four Noteables performing on stage with the Warren Durrett Orchestra. They are comprised of an unidentified white man, Laura Webb, Durrett, and...
Buck Clayton in the spotlight about to perform with an unnamed big band behind him.
Jay McShann and his orchestra; (top row L-R) Bobby Hopkins, drums; Pete Anderson, bass; (bottom row L-R) David Newman (likely), clarinet or saxophone...
Laura Webb on stage in a shirt and long skirt, singing into two microphones in front of the Warren Durrett orchestra (all white men). Durrett is at...
Unidentified white man standing on stage singing into two microphones in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra. Durrett is at the piano back to the...
Unidentified white man standing on stage, holding sheet music, singing into two microphones in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra. Durrett is at...
Unidentified white man playing alto saxophone, unidentified white man singing, and an unidentified white man playing trumpet into two microphones on...
Pete Haney standing to play saxophone with the Jay McShann Orchestra; other musicians in the photo (L-R) Bobby Hopkins, drums, David Newman (likely)...
Buck Clayton performing with the Count Basie's band.
Promotional postcard. Photo from waist up of Warren Durrett and two unidentified white men in black jackets and patterned ties, and Laura Webb wearing...
Unidentified white man playing tenor saxophone with the Warren Durrett orchestra, standing and playing in front of two microphones. Warren Durrett...
Unidentified white man standing on stage singing into two microphones in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra. At the far end of the stage, an...
Warren Durrett performing at an upright piano with his orchestra. A saxophone is resting above the keyboard, and the hammers and strings of the piano...