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Buck Clayton recording session

Image

Buck Clayton on trumpet in a recording studio with Sir Charles Thompson, Jimmy Butts, Dexter Gordon, J.C. Heard, Danny Barker and Charlie Parker.

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

Buck in a recording session

Image

Buck Clayton on trumpet in a recording studio with Jimmy Butts, Dexter Gordon, J.C. Heard, Danny Barker and Charlie Parker

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

Charlie Parker

Image

Charlie Parker looking to the side and smiling while holding a saxophone in one hand and resting his other hand on a drum. Parker is wearing a dark...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Charlie Parker

Image

Publicity photo of Charlie Parker playing saxophone and looking straight ahead. Parker is wearing a white button shirt and suspenders.

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

Charlie Parker

Image

Charlie Parker looking to the side and laughing while holding a saxophone in one hand and leaning on a drum with the other. Parker is wearing a dark...

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

Charlie Parker and his half-brother John (Ikey) sitting in a field

Image

Charlie Parker as a toddler with his half-brother John, known as Ikey, sitting side by side in a grassy field; Ikey is wearing a tie; Parker is...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Charlie Parker playing saxophone

Image

Charlie Parker playing saxophone; facing the left of the photo and wearing a plaid shirt and corduroy pants.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Charlie Parker playing saxophone

Image

Charlie Parker playing saxophone and looking straight ahead. Parker is wearing a pinstripe suit and patterned tie.

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

Charlie Parker's tombstone

Image

Charlie Parker's tombstone located in Lincoln Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1965
1970
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jay McShann and band members

Image

Jay McShann seated at the piano with his band standing around it; McShann (at piano) with Bill Nolan, Walter Brown, Charlie Parker, Bob Mabane...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and his band on stage at the Century Room

Image

Jay McShann on stage at the piano with his band (McShann (piano), Gene Ramey (bass), Walter Brown (vocals), Gus Johnson (drums), Bud Gould (trombone)...

Date Published
February-1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with a band

Image

Jay McShann playing piano with a band (Orville Minor, Bob Mabane, Gus Johnson, Bernard Anderson, Charlie Parker, Gene Ramey); recording for radio...

Date Published
November-30-1940
December-02-1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Sir Charles Thompson, Jimmy Butts, Dexter Gordon, Buck Clayton, J.C. Heard, and Charlie Parker

Image

Sir Charles Thompson playing piano, Jimmy Butts playing bass, Dexter Gordon playing saxophone on the left, Buck Clayton playing trumpet, J.C. Heard...

Date Published
September-04-1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Tommy Potter and Charlie Parker

Image

Tommy Potter playing double bass and Charlie Parker playing saxophone. Potter is close to the camera and Parker appears in between Potter and the neck...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
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  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)
  • Jay McShann Collection (5)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (14)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (14)
  • Group portraits (8)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Negatives (1)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (14)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (3)
  • 1921-1930 (1)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (11)
  • African American men (9)
  • Jazz musicians (9)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Sound studios (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Brothers (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Portraits, American (1)
  • Racially mixed children (1)
  • Sepulchral monuments (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (3)
  • Butts, Jimmy, 1917- (3)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990 (3)
  • Heard, J. C. (James Charles), 1917-1988 (3)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (3)
  • Mabane, Bob (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Barker, Danny (2)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (2)
  • Minor, Orville (2)
  • Ramey, Gene (2)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (2)
  • Baird, Taswell (1)
  • Bruce, Harold (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Fergenson, Harold (1)
  • Gould, Bud (1)
  • Jackson, John (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Parker, John Anthony (Ikey) (1)
  • Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988 (1)
  • (-) Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (14)

Date Published

  • 1945 (4)
  • 1950 (4)
  • 1951 (3)
  • 1941 (2)
  • 1960 (2)
  • 1921 (1)
  • 1930 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1940-02 (1)
  • 1940-11-30 (1)
  • 1940-12-02 (1)
  • 1945-09-04 (1)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1970 (1)

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