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Count Basie, Jo Jones and Walter Page performing

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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

Evelyn Knight reading sheet music

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Evelyn Knight reading sheet music for "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" while leaning against a turntable. Knight is wearing a light colored dress...

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

Mel Powell at the piano

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Mel Powell playing piano while looking down at music. He is wearing a pinstripe suit and sweater vest. A packet of Lucky Strikes cigarettes is lying...

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

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (3)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • Group portraits (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (3)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Phonograph turntables (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Sheet music (3)

Subjects, People

  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Knight, Evelyn (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (2)
  • 1941 (1)
  • (-) 1950 (3)

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