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After hours session

Image

Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman on clarinet) with Gene Krupa (drums), Buck Clayton (trumpet), George Duvivier (bass), Teddy Wilson...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton performing during filming

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Publicity photo of Buck Clayton performing a trumpet solo during a reenactment of the 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert for the film The Benny Goodman...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton solo during filming

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Publicity photo of Buck Clayton performing a trumpet solo during filming for The Benny Goodman Story; Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) is standing at...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Dave Dexter and Norman Newell

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Dave Dexter and Norman Newell holding a record featuring Laurie London. Dexter is wearing a striped tee shirt and Newell is wearing a black suit.

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter listening to a recording with two unidentified men

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Dave Dexter sitting in the center with two unidentified white men listening to a recording. All are seated at a studio machine with turntables.

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Filming the Benny Goodman Story

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Publicity shot showing the filming crew and audience as Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) performs with the band in a reenactment of the 1938 Carnegie...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Fox Midwest Management staff

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Fox Midwest Management staff.

Date Published
1945
1955
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Harry James' reenactment

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Publicity photo of Harry James performing a trumpet solo in a reenactment of the Benny Goodman Orchestra's 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert for the...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

In a recording studio

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Buck Clayton, Stan Getz (tenor sax), Gene Krupa (drums), George Duvivier (bass) and Urbie Green (trombone) performing in a recording studio; Hollywood...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Matt Dennis with children

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Matt Dennis kneeling next to a playpen in a yard outside with his two children. Dennis is handing a block to one of the children seated in the playpen...

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity photo of Gene Baker

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Headshot of Gene Baker wearing a patterned jacket and tie, looking off to the side, and standing behind a CBS microphone.

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Recording the soundtrack

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Buck Clayton, Harry James and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Recording the soundtrack

Image

Publicity photo of Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Recording the soundtrack

Image

Publicity photo of Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Recording the soundtrack

Image

Publicity photo of Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Recording the soundtrack

Image

Publicity photo of Buck Clayton, Harry James and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Scene from The Benny Goodman Story

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Publicity photo of a scene from the film where Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) is speaking with Hy Averback (as manager Willard Alexander); also seen...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Steve Allen as Benny Goodman

Image

Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) performing with members of the band, including Buck Clayton, trumpet, as part of the film The Benny...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Steve Allen as Benny Goodman

Image

Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) performing with the band in a reenactment of the 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert; Buck Clayton is...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Sy Miller and Jill Jackson-Miller looking over sheet music with Janet and Harley

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Janet Miller, Harley Miller, Sy Miller, and Jill Jackson-Miller look over the sheet music for "Let There Be Peace on Earth; and Let It Begin with Me"...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Ted Malone sits in a Thunderbird convertible sedan

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Ted Malone, wearing a flat cap, sits in the driver's seat of a first generation light colored Thunderbird convertible. A large tree and an iron fence...

Date Published
1955
1957
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Unidentified woman and Dave Dexter onstage

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An unidentified white woman with a feather in her hair and Dave Dexter onstage. Dexter is laughing and extending his arm forward.

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Watching Ziggy Elman

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Publicity photo of Ziggy Elman performing a trumpet solo in a reenactment of the 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert for the film The Benny Goodman Story...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
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  • 1955
  • Men, White

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (15)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (5)
  • Ted Malone Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (23)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (23)
  • Gelatin silver prints (23)
  • Group portraits (20)
  • Publicity photographs (16)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • Portrait photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (8)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (15)
  • African American men (15)
  • Jazz musicians, White (15)
  • Trumpet players (15)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • Big bands (6)
  • Sound studios (6)
  • Actors (5)
  • Clarinetists (5)
  • Trombonists (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (3)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Composers (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Radio personalities (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Lyricists (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Management (1)
  • Motion picture cameras (1)
  • Musical films (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sports cars (1)
  • Thunderbird automobile (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • (-) Men, White (23)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (15)
  • Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 (6)
  • Dexter, Dave (3)
  • Green, Urbie (3)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (3)
  • Duvivier, George (2)
  • Getz, Stan, 1927-1991 (2)
  • Krupa, Gene, 1909-1973 (2)
  • Averback, Hy (1)
  • Baker, Eugene Locke (Gene), 1910-1981 (1)
  • Dennis, Matt, 1914-2002 (1)
  • Elman, Ziggy (1)
  • Jackson, Jill (1)
  • London, Laurie, 1944- (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • Miller, Sy (1)
  • Newell, Norman (1)
  • Plinger, Elmer (1)
  • Reuss, Allan (1)
  • Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986 (1)
  • Wood, Harley (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (3)
  • 1960 (2)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1957 (1)
  • (-) 1955 (23)

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