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Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

Image

A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bass player

Image

An unidentified double bass player, possibly Larry Gales, performing.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling at the camera while playing piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt shaker on the piano in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling while playing piano and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a trio

Image

Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass, and an unidentified white man on drums, performing. Miller is facing the camera and the drummer's face is...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel standing together in a carpeted room between two curtained windows. Miller is wearing a stole with corsage. Abel is...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with three others at a club

Image

Bettye Miller in a light colored dress with long gloves and smoking a cigarette seated at a table in an unidentified club with an unidentified woman...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with twelve others around a table

Image

Bettye Miller (standing, center) with twelve unidentified others (African American and white men and women) around a table in a club or restaurant...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bill Green and Buck Clayton

Image

Buck Clayton with his trumpet posing with Bill Green and his double bass.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bill Green and Buck Clayton

Image

Buck Clayton with his trumpet to his mouth posing with Bill Green and his double bass.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview an unknown guest on WDAF's show Insight

Image

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview an unidentified African American man on WDAF's show Insight. Bodine and Leeds appear in three quarter profile...

Date Published
1960
1965
Member of
Walt Bodine Collection

Bob, Leata, and LaRue go for a stroll

Image

Bob, Leata and LaRue walking arm-in-arm along an outdoor wooded trail. Bob is taking a drink. All three have hats with wide brims.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Buck and Steven canoeing

Image

Buck Clayton and Steven canoeing on a lake at Muskoka Sands, Ontario, Canada.

Date Published
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton performing with Charles Thompson and others

Image

Sir Charles Thompson, Buck Clayton, Franklin Skeets [that is, Skeete], Jackie Williams and Buddy Tate performing on a carpeted stage.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton performing with Vic Dickenson and Earle Warren

Image

Earle Warren, Buck Clayton, Vic Dickenson and unidentified African American male pianist performing on stage.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton playing Dixieland trumpet

Image

Buck Clayton performing with Bill Green's Dixieland Jamboree; Buck is performing in front of seating for the rest of the band made up to look like a...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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  • African American men

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (43)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (20)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (11)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (6)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (2)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (93)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (89)
  • Gelatin silver prints (88)
  • Group portraits (62)
  • Snapshots (60)
  • Portrait photographs (31)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Portraits (1)
  • Promotional photographs (1)
  • Reproductions (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (49)
  • 1961-1970 (3)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (68)
  • Jazz musicians (68)
  • Men, White (35)
  • Pianists (30)
  • Trumpet players (30)
  • African American women (25)
  • Double bassists (24)
  • Jazz musicians, White (23)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (20)
  • Piano (16)
  • Musical instruments (15)
  • Saxophonists (15)
  • Double bass (14)
  • Drum set (11)
  • Microphone (11)
  • Porches (9)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (8)
  • Musicians (6)
  • Trombonists (6)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Clarinetists (4)
  • Soldiers (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Sound studios (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Fathers and sons (2)
  • Salt shakers (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American rock musicians (1)
  • Alcoholic drinks (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Beachgoers (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Cage birds (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Disc jockeys (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Evening gowns (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fathers and daughters (1)
  • Fruit (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Interviewing on radio (1)
  • Jeep automobile (1)
  • Lakes (1)
  • Magicians (1)
  • Male musicians (1)
  • Marriages of royalty and nobility (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Nobility (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Professional athletes (1)
  • Publishers and publishing (1)
  • Radio broadcasting (1)
  • Radio stations (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Radio talk shows (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Shades and shadows (1)
  • Socks (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Tangerine (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery (1)
  • Trails (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Variety shows (Television programs) (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) African American men (93)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (2)
  • Basel (Switzerland) (1)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Muskoka, Lake (Ont.) (1)
  • New Orleans (La.) (1)
  • Paris (France) (1)
  • Tulsa (Okla.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (33)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (16)
  • Brown, Corky (9)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (6)
  • Green, Bill (Double bassist) (3)
  • Richards, Red (3)
  • Williams, Jackie, 1933- (3)
  • Adderley, Cannonball (2)
  • Barker, Danny (2)
  • Butts, Jimmy, 1917- (2)
  • Clayton, Steven (2)
  • Darville, John (2)
  • Dickenson, Vic (2)
  • Freeman, Bud, 1906-1991 (2)
  • Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990 (2)
  • Griddine, Eugene (2)
  • Heard, J. C. (James Charles), 1917-1988 (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (2)
  • Russell, Pee Wee (2)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (2)
  • Warren, Earle (2)
  • Bailey, Buster (1)
  • Barefield, Eddie, 1909-1991 (1)
  • Barnes, Mae (1)
  • Bartholomew, Dave (1)
  • Bateman, Charlie (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Berry, Emmett (1)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (1)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (1)
  • Bushkin, Joe (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Clayton, Candice (1)
  • Clayton, Patricia (1)
  • Domino, Fats, 1928- (1)
  • Fields, Kansas (1)
  • Fisher, Williams (Pianist) (1)
  • Flemming, Herb, 1900-1976 (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Gales, Lary (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Herbert, Arthur, 1907- (1)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Jones, Willie, 1929-1991 (1)
  • Jordan, Alonzo F. (1)
  • Kersey, Kenny, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Lascelles, Angela, 1919-2007 (1)
  • Lascelles, Gerald, 1924-1998 (1)
  • Leeds, Bill (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Lovett, Baby (1)
  • Luter, Claude (1)
  • Lyttelton, Humphrey, 1921-2008 (1)
  • Masse, Jean-Marie (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Miller, Big (1)
  • Moore, Russell, 1912-1983 (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Panassié, Hugues (1)
  • Power, Vic, 1927-2005 (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Salisbury, George, 1918-1986 (1)
  • Sedric, Gene, 1907-1963 (1)
  • Sheppard, Harry (Vibraphonist) (1)
  • Skeete, Franklin (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Stringer, Dean (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Traill, Sinclair (1)
  • Trumbauer, Bill, 1923-1978 (1)
  • Vinson, Eddie (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Woods, Georgie (1)
  • Woodyard, Sam, 1925-1988 (1)
  • Wright, John M., 1867- (1)
  • Wright, Josephine, 1876- (1)
  • Young, Trummy (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (85)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1969 (1)
  • (-) 1960 (93)

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