Big Joe Turner with microphone
Joe Turner speaking or singing into a microphone; facing the left.
Joe Turner speaking or singing into a microphone; facing the left.
Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's...
Buck Clayton, Fats Domino, and Dave Bartholomew lifting their hands to a hanging birdcage containing a finch.
The Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings, an R&B and blues band comprised of three African American men and three white men, pose in a group with three...
Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings, a blues band comprised of four white men and two African American men, stand together. All are wearing dark suits. Two...
Publicity reproduction of a painting featuring portraits of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and "Big Mama" Thornton arranged against a background of...
Publicity photo of Fantastic Four featuring "Sweet" James Epps, Ralph and Joseph Pruitt, and Wallace Childs standing at an angle, holding hands out...
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, a funk, blues, and rhythm and blues vocal group of four African American men, who stand and sing at microphones at...
Hank Ballard sings into a microphone on the left side of the photograph as the Midnighters, a rhythm and blues band comprised of four African American...
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, a rhythm and blues band comprised of eight African American men, stand on stage. Hank Ballard sings into a...
Performance with Jay McShann on piano, Clarence "Big" Miller on bass, Eugene "Jeep" Griddine on guitar, and an unidentified African American man on...
Jeannie Wallace (right), standing arm in arm on stage with "Big Mama" Thornton (center), and Sippie Wallace (left); Thornton and Wallace both are...
Publicity photo for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" (filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach) featuring a performance shot of...
Big Mama Thornton seated and playing drums with Joe Jones standing next to her observing with a cigarette in one hand; Edmund Hall and two others can...
The Loved Ones, an R&B band from Oakland, California comprised of four white men who stand on a sidewalk between the Oakland depot and the train...
The Midnighters, a rhythm and blues band comprised of five African American men. One man sits holding an electric guitar, while the other four stand...
Publicity photo for the O'Jays featuring Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, and William Powell standing left to right and looking forward while smiling. All...
Publicity photo for the O'Jays featuring Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, and William Powell standing left to right and looking forward while smiling. All...
Publicity photo of The Pointer Sisters standing against a wall and looking forward with neutral expressions. All three are wearing black dresses.
Publicity photo of The Pointer Sisters standing in a row all turning forward and smiling. Three members stand with their hands on their hips and the...
Priscilla Bowman and an unidentified African American man at Mel's Hideaway in Chicago, Illinois.
Priscilla Bowman (right) sitting with her daughter Marcia Bowman.
Priscilla Bowman (right) with her daughter Marcia Bowman at a table at "Walter's Lounge."
Priscilla Bowman singing with the Curtyse Foster Band: "Bumps" Love (piano), Foster (sax), Elmer Price (trumpet), Bill Nolan (drums); unidentified...