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Buck Clayton and friends

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Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Nancy Miller Elliot and Freddie Green seated together in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
September-1979
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Harry Edison

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Buck Clayton with Harry Edison in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
September-1979
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and, likely, Harry "Sweets" Edison

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Buck Clayton speaking with, likely, Harry "Sweets" Edison.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton conducting

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Buck Clayton conducting an orchestra with Nat Pierce on piano, Frankie Capp on drums, Harry Edison and Al Aaron on trumpets, and from left to right...

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Harry Edison

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Buck Clayton standing with his arm around Harry Edison outside beside a car.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Harry Sweets Edison, Ray Brown, and one other man

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Buck Clayton, dressed casually and holding a sandwich, standing together with Harry Sweets Edison, Ray Brown, and another, unidentified, man.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Harry Sweets Edison, and Count Basie relaxing on the streets of Nice, France

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Count Basie standing on the sidewalk with Harry "Sweets" Edison and Buck Clayton, laughing; Nice, France.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Joe Williams, and Harry Edison

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Buck Clayton, standing, with seated Joe Williams and Harry Edison in some sort of festival tent or booth.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Joe Williams, and Harry Edison

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Joe Williams seated with Harry "Sweets" Edison and Buck Clayton on a bench; Buck is looking at the camera, Joe and Harry and sharing a joke.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Nat Pierce, Harry Edison, and Jean-Pierre Vignola

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Buck Clayton seated outside of a restaurant, possibly in France, Quebec or Switzerland, with Nat Pierce, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jean-Pierre Vignola...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Count Basie with Harry Sweets Edison

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Count Basie and Harry "Sweets" Edison performing on stage at the Apollo Theater.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry "Sweets" Edison

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Portrait of Harry Sweets Edison wearing a checkered jacket and white turtle neck; facing left.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry "Sweets" Edison

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Harry "Sweets" Edison seated at a dressing room vanity and turned to face the camera; his trumpet is on the table in front of him.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry "Sweets" Edison, Count Basie (seated), Jimmy Powell, and "Lucky" Thompson

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Harry "Sweets" Edison playing trumpet, Jimmy Powell playing clarinet, Count Basie (seated) playing piano, and Eli "Lucky" Thompson playing saxophone...

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

Harry Edison, Jean-Pierre Vignola, and Buck Clayton in England

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Harry "Sweets" Edison standing with Buck Clayton and Jean-Pierre Vignola; London, England.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry Sweets Edison

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Harry Sweets Edison.

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry Sweets Edison and Snookie Young

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Harry "Sweets" Edison and Snookie Young playing trumpets on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry Sweets Edison and Snookie Young

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Harry "Sweets" Edison and Snookie Young on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Sweets Edison and Illinois Jacquet

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Publicity photo of Sweets Edison, holding his trumpet, with Illinois Jacquet, playing his saxophone; Jacquet is seated in a chair and facing toward...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Sweets Edison and Illinois Jacquet

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Publicity photo of Sweets Edison, holding his trumpet, with Illinois Jacquet, playing his saxophone; Jacquet is seated in a chair and facing toward...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection
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  • Black & white photographs
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (17)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (20)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (20)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (20)
  • Jazz musicians (17)
  • Trumpet players (10)
  • African American men (5)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Trumpet (3)
  • Autographs (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Chairs (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • African American band directors (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Dressing tables (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Music journalists (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Sandwiches (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  • Nice (France) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (11)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (3)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (2)
  • Pierce, Nat (2)
  • Williams, Joe, 1918-1999 (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Aarons, Al, 1932- (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Capp, Frank (1)
  • Elliott, Nancy Miller (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Love, Preston (1)
  • Powell, Jimmy, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Thompson, Lucky, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Vignola, Jean-Pierre (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Williams, Pinky (1)
  • (-) Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (20)

Date Published

  • 1981 (6)
  • 1990 (6)
  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1960 (2)
  • 1979-09 (2)
  • 1982 (2)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1976 (1)

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