"Joe Liggins Leader of the Famous Honeydrippers"
Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.
Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.
Ahmad Alaadeen (Richard White) performing at the Orchid Room, 12th Street and Vine near The Paseo; Kansas City, MO. Ahmad closes his eyes as he blows...
Al Casey, Dave Dexter, Horace Henderson, and Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett sitting shoulder to shoulder against a studio wall. All are leaning forward and...
Art Tatum playing piano in a recording studio with unidentified people in the background watching. Tatum is looking ahead and smiling, wearing a light...
A photograph from above of Baby Dodds playing drums during a studio session. Dodds is seated and looking down while holding drum sticks up.
Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard laughing and talking in a recording studio. Brown is holding a double bass and shaking...
Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard standing shoulder to shoulder. All are wearing dark suits and smiling. Gaillard is holding...
Ben Webster resting his left hand on his saxophone with his right hand out the window; no suit jacket and his fedora brim turned up.
Benny Morton seated on a window sill wearing a white t-shirt.
Benny Morton sitting on the window sill talking on the telephone.
Bettye Miller (third from the left) at a table with four unidentified African American women, an unidentified African American man, and speaking with...
Bettye Miller on stage wearing a long white dress with floral accents. Facing the camera and smiling.
Bettye Miller posing on stage in a white dress with floral elements. Facing the camera.
Bettye Miller (left) and three unidentified women seated around a table at a club. All but one looking at the camera. The two women on the right have...
Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday sitting and looking over music. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder patch and a white hair wrap. Ellington...
Bob Wilson (second from right) and unidentified musicians.
Bobby Stafford (center) performing with two unidentified men.
Bobby Stafford (center) performing with two unidentified men.
Buck Clayton leaning on a fence wearing two-tone oxfords and a newsboy cap.
Buck Clayton standing on a boardwalk wearing sunglasses and a newsboy cap.
Buck Clayton with an unidentified man on the streets of New York.
Buck Clayton smiling out of the passenger window of a car, wearing a fedora, with an unidentified driver.
Buck Clayton seated at a table with, from left to right, Red Richards, Russell "Big Chief" Moore, an unidentified girl, Buster Bailey, Kansas Fields.