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"Joe Liggins Leader of the Famous Honeydrippers"

Image

Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.

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

Ahmad Alaadeen at the Orchid Room

Image

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...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Al Casey, Dave Dexter, Horace Henderson, and Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett

Image

Al Casey, Dave Dexter, Horace Henderson, and Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett sitting shoulder to shoulder against a studio wall. All are leaning forward and...

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

Andy Kirk at the piano

Image

Andy Kirk playing the piano.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Art Tatum

Image

Art Tatum playing piano in a recording studio with unidentified people in the background watching. Tatum is looking ahead and smiling, wearing a light...

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

Baby Dodds playing drums

Image

A photograph from above of Baby Dodds playing drums during a studio session. Dodds is seated and looking down while holding drum sticks up.

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

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

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard

Image

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard standing shoulder to shoulder. All are wearing dark suits and smiling. Gaillard is holding...

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

Ben Webster

Image

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.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Benny Morton relaxing

Image

Benny Morton seated on a window sill wearing a white t-shirt.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Benny Morton talking on the telephone

Image

Benny Morton sitting on the window sill talking on the telephone.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bettye Miller

Image

Publicity photo of Bettye Miller seated at piano.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Bettye Miller and others at a club

Image

Bettye Miller (third from the left) at a table with four unidentified African American women, an unidentified African American man, and speaking with...

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

Bettye Miller in a long white dress

Image

Bettye Miller on stage wearing a long white dress with floral accents. Facing the camera and smiling.

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

Bettye Miller in a white dress

Image

Bettye Miller posing on stage in a white dress with floral elements. Facing the camera.

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

Bettye Miller with three others at a club

Image

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...

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

Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington

Image

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...

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

Bob Wilson and unidentified musicians

Image

Bob Wilson (second from right) and unidentified musicians.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Bobby Stafford performing with two unidentified men

Image

Bobby Stafford (center) performing with two unidentified men.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Bobby Stafford performing with two unidentified men

Image

Bobby Stafford (center) performing with two unidentified men.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Buck Clayton leaning on a fence

Image

Buck Clayton leaning on a fence wearing two-tone oxfords and a newsboy cap.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton on a boardwalk

Image

Buck Clayton standing on a boardwalk wearing sunglasses and a newsboy cap.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton on a New York street with a friend

Image

Buck Clayton with an unidentified man on the streets of New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton on his way

Image

Buck Clayton smiling out of the passenger window of a car, wearing a fedora, with an unidentified driver.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton seated at a table with, from left to right, Red Richards, Russell "Big Chief" Moore, an unidentified girl, Buster Bailey, Kansas Fields

Image

Buck Clayton seated at a table with, from left to right, Red Richards, Russell "Big Chief" Moore, an unidentified girl, Buster Bailey, Kansas Fields.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (97)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (34)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (14)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (7)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (158)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (158)
  • Gelatin silver prints (158)
  • Portrait photographs (122)
  • Snapshots (117)
  • Group portraits (75)
  • Publicity photographs (22)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Film negatives (1)
  • Safety film negatives (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (123)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (65)
  • African American men (42)
  • Pianists (29)
  • Trumpet players (25)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (24)
  • Saxophonists (22)
  • African American women (15)
  • Men, White (13)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (12)
  • Jazz singers (8)
  • Trombonists (8)
  • Double bassists (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Big bands (5)
  • Actors (3)
  • Double bass (3)
  • Drum set (3)
  • Gifted children (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Male singers (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Autographs (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (2)
  • Baseball players (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Jazz ensembles (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • African American soldiers (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Baseball teams (1)
  • Baseball uniforms (1)
  • Bathing beaches (1)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Beachgoers (1)
  • Boxers (Sports) (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Champagne (Wine) (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Disc jockeys (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Gymnasiums (1)
  • Jazz radio programs (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Porches (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Segregated beaches (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Tobacco pipes (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (158)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (8)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • Atlantic City (N.J.) (1)
  • Missouri Avenue Beach (Atlantic City, N.J.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Paseo Boulevard (1)
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (1)
  • Vine Street (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (21)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (14)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (13)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (10)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (9)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (7)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (6)
  • Lovett, Baby (6)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (6)
  • Dickenson, Vic (5)
  • Robinson, Sugar Chile, 1940- (5)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (4)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (4)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (4)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (3)
  • Cavanaugh, Dave (3)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (3)
  • Lee, Julia, 1902-1958 (3)
  • Liggins, Joe (3)
  • Price, Jesse, 1909-1974 (3)
  • Vale, Teddy (3)
  • Alexander, Joe (Vocalist) (2)
  • Anderson, Pete (Musician) (2)
  • Bailey, Buster (2)
  • Brown, Bam (2)
  • Catlett, Sid, 1910-1951 (2)
  • Cochran, Phillip (2)
  • Dairs, Lotty (2)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (2)
  • Gaillard, Slim (2)
  • Garner, Erroll (2)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (2)
  • Haney, Pete (2)
  • Hodges, Johnny (2)
  • Hopkins, Bobby (2)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Moore, Oscar (2)
  • Morton, Benny (2)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (2)
  • Pease, Sharon (2)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (2)
  • Stafford, Bobby (2)
  • Stewart, Rex, 1907-1967 (2)
  • Whitfield, Joe (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Berry, Emmett (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (1)
  • Byas, Don (1)
  • Carter, Benny (1)
  • Casey, Al (1)
  • Clayton, Patricia (1)
  • Dodds, Baby, 1898-1959 (1)
  • Duvivier, George (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989 (1)
  • Fields, Kansas (1)
  • Francis, Panama (1)
  • Garland, Ed (1)
  • Garland, Red (1)
  • Garrette, Duke (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Guy, Fred (1)
  • Hamilton, Chico, 1921-2013 (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Haughton, Shorty (1)
  • Henderson, Horace (1)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (1)
  • Horne, Lena (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • Johnson, James P. (James Price) 1894-1955 (1)
  • Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970 (1)
  • Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 (1)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (1)
  • Jordan, Taft, 1915-1981 (1)
  • Kirby, John, 1908-1952 (1)
  • Kirk, Andy, 1898-1992 (1)
  • Kriegsmann, James J. (1)
  • Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972 (1)
  • Lewis, Ed, 1909-1985 (1)
  • Locarra, Tico (1)
  • Louis, Joe, 1914-1981 (1)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Moore, Johnny, 1906-1969 (1)
  • Moore, Russell, 1912-1983 (1)
  • Myers, Bumps, 1912-1968 (1)
  • Nanton, Tricky Sam, 1904-1946 (1)
  • Navarro, Fats, 1923-1950 (1)
  • Newman, Joe (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Phillips, Flip (1)
  • Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988 (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Powell, Jimmy, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Richards, Red (1)
  • Rigney, Bill, 1918-2001 (1)
  • Robbins, Fred, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Rodgers, Gene (1)
  • Rogers, Timmie (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Salisbury, George, 1918-1986 (1)
  • Strayhorn, Billy (1)
  • Tatum, Art, 1909-1956 (1)
  • Thompson, Lucky, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Watson, Leo, 1898-1950 (1)
  • Webster, Ben, 1909-1973 (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Wilson, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Young, Lester, 1909-1959 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (91)
  • 1941 (59)
  • 1931 (2)
  • (-) 1950 (158)

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