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Audio equipment in PA room at Municipal Auditorium

Image

PA room at Municipal Auditorium, depicting work desk, equipment racks, and record cutting lathes.

Date Published
1939
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Buck Clayton in the studio with Buddy Tate and others

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Buddy Tate and Earle Warren playing sax with Sir Charles Thompson, Dicky Wells, and Buck Clayton.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton recording with Jimmy Rushing

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Jimmy Rushing and Buck Clayton (and possibly Urbie Green on trombone) in a recording studio in New York.

Date Published
February-26-1958
February-27-1958
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, Sir Charles Thompson and others

Image

Studio shot of Dicky Wells playing trombone, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, Earle Warren on sax, Buck Clayton on trumpet, unidentified clarinetists...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, Sir Charles Thompson and others

Image

Buddy Tate speaking to a group including Sir Charles Thompson, Earle Warren, Buck Clayton and others.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells and others

Image

Studio shot with Dicky Wells on trombone, Buck Clayton, likely Earle Warren, and an unidentified African American clarinet player.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck playing trumpet in the studio

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Buck Clayton on trumpet with Sir Charles Thompson on piano and others in the room.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Capitol Records album "New American Jazz"

Image

The cover of a 78-rpm record album set released by Capitol Records called "New American Jazz." The cover features a silhouette of five musicians and...

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

Capitol Records microphone

Image

A close-up, side view photograph of a microphone against a blank wall. The cable coming out of the receiver and running down the stand is visible.

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

Capitol Records microphone

Image

Close-up photograph of a Capitol Records microphone showing the label name. An unidentified white male violinist is standing behind the microphone...

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

Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and an unidentified man in a recording studio

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Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, an unidentified white man, and Patty Tucker in a recording studio, singing in front of a music stand.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and three men in a recording studio

Image

Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and an unidentified white man in a recording studio, singing in front of a music stand. Two other...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Damon Transcribing Facilities on the job

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Crowd gathered around representatives of Damon Transcription Laboratory, who are doing a live remote recording from Union Station, Kansas City.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Dave Dexter and Capitol Records staff recording an album

Image

Dave Dexter and unidentified Capitol Records staff (all white men) recording a Christmas album. Dexter is seated at the bottom right, playing...

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

Dave Dexter in studio

Image

Dave Dexter seated in a recording studio looking to the side. Dexter is operating a reel-to-reel machine.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter listening to a recording with two unidentified men

Image

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

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis seated in a recording studio

Image

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis, unidentified white man, seated in a recording studio with two other unidentified white men and an...

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

Ed Roche operating a reel-to-reel recorder

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Ed Roche operating a reel-to-reel recorder manufactured by the Stancil-Hoffman Company in Hollywood.

Date Published
1953
1955
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Ed Roche standing with recording/broadcasting equipment

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Ed Roche standing with recording/broadcasting equipment.

Date Published
1967
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Fine broadcasting studios available for your recordings

Image

Recording/broadcasting studio with piano and microphone at Damon Transcribing Facilities.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Four men work on a broadcast or recording

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Four African American men and one white man sit and stand in a room with microphones at a table, possibly a radio studio, working.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

James Albright recording

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James Albright looks seriously at the neck of a bass guitar as he stands in front of a microphone wearing headphones at the Myra Taylor recording...

Date Published
July-31-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

John Fogerty and Duke Tumatoe

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John Fogerty and Duke Tumatoe are at a sound board panel. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "John Fogerty & Duke Tumatoe. WB [logo]. c1989...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jürgen Welge recording

Image

Jürgen Welge smiling as he plays the drum set in a Hawaiian print shirt, shorts, and headphones at the Myra Taylor Recording Session at Airborne...

Date Published
July-31-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marilyn Maye, Carol Johnston, and two men in a recording studio

Image

An unidentified white man speaking into a microphone, holding a paper in his hand. In the background, Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, and a second...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

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Member of

  • Warren Durrett Collection (19)
  • Vic Damon Collection (13)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (9)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (4)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (2)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (55)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (55)
  • Snapshots (35)
  • Group portraits (33)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (55)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (30)
  • 1941-1950 (15)
  • 2001-2010 (4)
  • 1931-1940 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (1)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (37)
  • Jazz musicians (32)
  • Jazz musicians, White (29)
  • Sound studios (28)
  • Jazz singers (14)
  • Sound engineers (12)
  • Women, White (11)
  • African American men (10)
  • African American jazz musicians (9)
  • Band directors (9)
  • Microphone (6)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (4)
  • Cigarette smokers (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bass guitar (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Percussion instruments (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • (-) Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (55)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Overland Park (Kan.) (4)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Maye, Marilyn (10)
  • Durrett, Warren (9)
  • Tucker, Patty (Singer) (9)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (7)
  • Johnston, Carol (Singer) (6)
  • Damon, Victor L., 1901-1974 (4)
  • Dexter, Dave (4)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (4)
  • Warren, Earle (4)
  • Tate, Buddy (3)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (3)
  • Green, Urbie (2)
  • Roche, Ed (2)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (2)
  • Albright, James (Double bassist) (1)
  • Bank, Danny (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Fogerty, John, 1945- (1)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Tumatoe, Duke (1)
  • Welge, Jürgen, 1955- (1)
  • Whitmer, Tim (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (21)
  • 1960 (20)
  • 1941 (13)
  • 1956 (8)
  • 1945 (7)
  • 1961 (5)
  • 1970 (5)
  • 2001-07-31 (4)
  • 1939 (3)
  • 1950 (2)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1958-02-26 (2)
  • 1958-02-27 (2)
  • 1971 (2)
  • 1980 (2)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1989 (1)

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