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B Sharp Jazz Quartet

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B Sharp Jazz Quartet (Herb Graham Jr., Osama Afifi, Randall Willis, Eliot Douglass). The saxophonist, bass player, and drummer stand behind the piano...

Date Published
1994
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Eddie Henderson

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Jazz trumpet player Eddie Henderson smiles and looks to his right as he holds a trumpet. He's wearing a hooded shirt. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Frankie Lee

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Blues singer Frankie Lee in a split panel of two photographs. In the photograph on the left, he leans his face on his right fist. In the right...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Great day in Hollywood group photo

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Group photo of the participants in the Great Day in Hollywood; all seated or standing on a set of concrete steps outside an unidentified building...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Harmonica Fats and Bernie Pearl

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Blues harmonica player Harmonica Fats stands on stage with a lot of equipment behind him, playing the harmonica as he wears a three piece business...

Date Published
1994
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

James Cotton

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Blues harmonica player James Cotton wearing a flat cap and a dark leather jacket, has his back to the photographer. He turns to the right to smile...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jay McShann playing in a trio at the Montreal Bistro

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Jay McShann playing piano as part of a trio with Jim Galloway (saxophone), and Dan Thompson (bass) at the Montreal Bistro in Toronto, Canada.

Date Published
1994
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jimmy Dawkins

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Jimmy Dawkins in a close-up head-shot, wears a derby hat and an a diamond print shirt. Parts of a guitar are visible in...

Date Published
1994
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jimmy Johnson

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Blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson in side-by-side photographs. The photograph on the left has Jimmy smiling at the camera as he plays an electric guitar...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jimmy Johnson

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Blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson in two photographs. The photograph on the left has Jimmy rest his head on his hands an look seriously off to the right...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Johnny Dyer

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Blues harmonica player Johnny Dyer in a close-up photograph, plays a harmonica with both hands as his eyes twinkle at the photographer. Printed in the...

Date Published
1994
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Johnny Nocturne Band featuring Brenda Boykin

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The Johnny Nocturne Band, a blues band comprised of seven white men and one African American man, with blues vocalist Brenda Boykin, stand in front of...

Date Published
1994
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

L'il Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians

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L'il Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians, a blues band comprised of one African American man, three African American women, and seven white men, sit...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Sister

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Little Sister, a rock band comprised of one white woman, one African American man, and two white men, sit or stand in front of a brick wall and look...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson

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Blues guitarist Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson sits on a chair in front of a brick wall with peeling paint and looks down at the neck of an electric...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Luther Allison

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Blues guitarist Luther Allison grins as he plays a guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Booking: the rosebud agency, P.O Box 170429...

Date Published
1994
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Luther Allison

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Blues guitarist Luther Allison winces as he plays a guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Booking: the rosebud agency, P.O Box 170429...

Date Published
1994
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Luther Allison

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Blues guitarist Luther Allison hugs an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Thomas Ruf Production, Kirchstr. 24, 37318...

Date Published
1994
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Luther Allison

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Blues guitarist Luther Allison winces as he plays a guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Booking: The rosebud agency, P.O Box 170429...

Date Published
1994
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mark Whitfield

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Mark Whitfield, jazz guitarist, looks up as he plays a guitar in front of a microphone dropped from the ceiling. There is a brick wall behind him...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mark Whitfield

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Mark Whitfield, jazz guitarist, hunches over and looks down at a jazz guitar he is playing in a close-up photograph. A recording microphone hangs down...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Hill of Michael Hill's Blues Mob

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Michael Hill leans his head band a laughs as he stands outdoors holding an electric guitar by the neck. Printed in the...

Date Published
1994
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Hill's Blues Mob

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Michael Hill's Blues Mob, a blues band comprised of four African American men, stand and grin at the photographer in African dress. Michael Hill leans...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Ray

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Michael Ray, funk, soul, and jazz trumpet player, grins and holds his trumpet up by his face while he holds his right hand, fingers splayed, below the...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe

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Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, a funk, soul, and jazz band comprised of three African American men, and five white men, stand on stairs in colorful...

Date Published
1994
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (43)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (45)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (43)
  • Black & white photographs (42)
  • Gelatin silver prints (41)
  • Portrait photographs (28)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Photocopies (1)
  • Slides (1)
  • Snapshots (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (45)
  • 2001-2010 (5)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (29)
  • Guitarists (20)
  • Men, White (16)
  • Bands (Music) (15)
  • Guitar (12)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Singers (7)
  • Harmonica players (6)
  • African American women (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Soul musicians (3)
  • Funk musicians (2)
  • Harmonica (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Keyboardists (1)
  • Latin jazz (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Punk rock musicians (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Ska (Music) (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Zydeco musicians (1)
  • (-) African American men (45)

Subjects, People

  • Allison, Luther, 1939-1997 (4)
  • Enos, Bob, 1947- (3)
  • Lataille, Rich (3)
  • Odom, Mac (3)
  • Strother, Percy (3)
  • Vachon, Chris (3)
  • Gennari, Ray (2)
  • Johnson, Jimmy (2)
  • Jordan, Stanley (2)
  • Kostakes, Steve (2)
  • Mischo, R. J. (2)
  • Morgan, Teddy (2)
  • Ray, Michael (Trumpet player) (2)
  • Silva, Greg (2)
  • Sugar Blue (2)
  • Warner, Mike, 1942- (2)
  • Whitfield, Mark (2)
  • Boykin, Brenda (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Clark, W. C., 1939- (1)
  • Colionne, Nick (1)
  • Cotton, James, 1935-2017 (1)
  • Dawkins, Jimmy (1)
  • Dural, Buckwheat, 1947-2016 (1)
  • Dyer, Johnny, 1938- (1)
  • Enright, Thom (1)
  • Evans, Terry (Vocalist) (1)
  • Galloway, Jim (1)
  • Greenberg, Mark (Musician) (1)
  • Harmonica Fats, 1927-2000 (1)
  • Henderson, Eddie (1)
  • Johnson, Luther, 1939 April 11- (1)
  • King, Bnois (1)
  • Kubek, Smokin' Joe (1)
  • Lee, Frankie (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Pearl, Bernie (1)
  • Rhodes, Sonny (1)
  • Rossi, George (Pianist) (1)
  • Seals, Son (1)
  • Thompson, Dan (Musician) (1)
  • Walther, Hank (1)
  • Wolf, John (Trombonist) (1)

Events

  • Great Day in Hollywood (1)

Date Published

  • 1997 (5)
  • 2001 (4)
  • 1995 (3)
  • 1998 (3)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 1992 (1)
  • (-) 1994 (45)

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