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Buck Clayton and company

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Count Basie standing with Dicky Wells, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Freddie Green and Earle Warren in Harlem, New York.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Count Basie hugging

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Buck Clayton hugging Count Basie; New York.

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

Buck Clayton and friends

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Buck Clayton with Freddie Green, Count Basie and Harry Edison all standing beside a car in Geneva, Switzerland.

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

Buck Clayton with Count Basie

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Count Basie with Buck Clayton in white hat and sunglasses.

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

Count Basie and Art Tatum

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Count Basie and Art Tatum sitting at a piano together in front of a stage curtain. Basie is holding a cigarette in one hand and looking down. Tatum is...

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

Count Basie and Carmen Miranda at Command Performance

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Publicity photo of Count Basie at piano and Carmen Miranda holding percussive shaker at Command Performance. Basie is sitting at the piano wearing a...

Date Published
1936
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie and Dave Brubeck

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Count Basie smiles as he looks down and raises his right hand as Dave Brubeck looks at Count Basie and laughs at the story. Other members of the crowd...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Count Basie and Dave Dexter

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Count Basie and Dave Dexter sitting on a table against a wall. Dexter is wearing a light colored suit and handing an envelope to Basie, who is wearing...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie and Ed Sullivan

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Still photo from Ed Sullivan show with Count Basie and Ed Sullivan.

Date Published
1961
1965
Member of
Allan Bell Collection

Count Basie and Glenn Wallichs

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Count Basie and Glenn Wallichs standing against a studio wall and smiling. Basie is wearing a light colored suit and looking to the side. Wallichs is...

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

Count Basie and Joe Belford at Roseland Ballroom

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Count Basie shaking hands with Joe Belford at the Roseland Ballroom. Basie is smiling and looking up. Belford is wearing a pinstripe suit and...

Date Published
December-1936
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie and Mickey Mouse

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Count Basie laughing and holding a cake with Mickey Mouse. Basie is facing forward with the cake facing outward. The cake has icing made to look like...

Date Published
1975
1980
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie and Mickey Mouse

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Count Basie smiling and shaking hands with Mickey Mouse. Both are facing forward and standing in front of a bandstand.

Date Published
1975
1980
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie and Nancy Elliott

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Count Basie seated with a cigarette in front a dressing room mirror in which Nancy Elliott can also be seen taking the photo.

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Count Basie playing with Benny Goodman

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Angled photo of Count Basie playing piano with Benny Goodman playing clarinet. Goodman is standing over Basie and looking forward. Studio equipment is...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. 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

Count Basie, Jerry Wald, Billy Rogers, and Dave Dexter on "Can You Tie That"

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Count Basie, Jerry Wald, Billie Rogers, and Dave Dexter looking forward and seated at a table with microphones, water pitchers, and paper, for a...

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

Count Basie, Jimmy Cagney, Ginger Rogers, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and Don Wilson

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Backstage at a broadcast to American soldiers over the Armed Forces Radio Service network in 1945 are Count Basie, Jimmy Cagney, Ginger Rogers, Lionel...

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

Count Basie, Jo Jones and Walter Page performing

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Count Basie seated playing piano with Jo Jones playing drums and Walter Page playing bass; all are looking over the left side of the photo; sheets of...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Count Basie's band

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Buck Clayton performing with the Basie band, Basie on piano, on a stage with a large drawing of a show girl behind them.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Dave Dexter and Count Basie

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Backstage in Hollywood in 1944, Count Basie approves an article written by Dave Dexter, Jr., who has carefully followed the Basie career from 1936...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Count Basie playing cards

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Dave Dexter and Count Basie play cards with two unidentified musicians. Dexter is second from right, crouching on a box and looking to the side. Basie...

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

Dave Dexter, Count Basie, and Glenn Wallichs

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Dave Dexter, Count Basie, Glenn Wallichs, and unidentified man looking over documents. Dexter is looking forward with his hand on Basie's shoulder...

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

Dave Dexter, Count Basie, and Glenn Wallichs

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Dave Dexter, Count Basie, and Glenn Wallichs facing forward and posing shoulder to shoulder for a photo. Dexter is wearing a wool suit and tie, Basie...

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

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  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (24)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (10)
  • Allan Bell Collection (1)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (38)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (34)
  • Gelatin silver prints (34)
  • Snapshots (25)
  • Portrait photographs (24)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Film negatives (1)
  • Safety film negatives (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (38)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (18)
  • 1931-1940 (5)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (30)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • Pianists (17)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (12)
  • African American men (9)
  • Band directors (6)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • African American band directors (3)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Mickey Mouse (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Award presentations (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Women singers (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (2)
  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)
  • Nice (France) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (11)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (8)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (5)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (3)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (3)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (3)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (3)
  • Cagney, James, 1899-1986 (2)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (2)
  • Hampton, Lionel (2)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (2)
  • Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995 (2)
  • Belford, Joe (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Brubeck, Dave (1)
  • Burke, Sonny, 1914-1980 (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Donahue, Sam (1)
  • Durbin, Deanna (1)
  • Elliott, Nancy Miller (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Hapmton, Lionel (1)
  • Miranda, Carmen, 1909-1955 (1)
  • Norman, Gene (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Powell, Jimmy, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Rogers, Billie (1)
  • Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004 (1)
  • Sullivan, Ed, 1901-1974 (1)
  • Symphony Sid (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Tatum, Art, 1909-1956 (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thompson, Lucky, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962 (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Warren, Harry, 1893-1981 (1)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (1)
  • Wilson, Don, 1900-1982 (1)
  • (-) Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (38)

Date Published

  • 1950 (13)
  • 1945 (11)
  • 1941 (4)
  • 1946 (3)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1990 (3)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1944 (2)
  • 1975 (2)
  • 1979-09 (2)
  • 1980 (2)
  • 1982 (2)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1936-12 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1976 (1)

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