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Band sitting around a table

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Joe Newman, John Darville, Zoot Sims, Vic Dickenson, Marvin Hannibal Peterson, Earle Warren, Harry Sweets Edison, and an unidentified woman sitting...

Date Published
August-1975
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 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 talks with friends in Nice, France

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Buck Clayton sitting at a table speaking with likely Ben Webster and next to Harry Sweets Edison and an unidentified men, Nice, France.

Date Published
July-1975
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Harry Edison

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Harry "Sweets" Edison seated with Buck Clayton.

Date Published
September-13-1976
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

Image

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, 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 and Jimmy Knepper

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Harry Edison seated with Jimmy Knepper during a recording session.

Date Published
September-13-1976
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Harry Edison and Jimmy Knepper playing

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Harry Edison on trumpet with Jimmy Knepper on trombone during a recording session.

Date Published
September-13-1976
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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 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

Jazz greats on the street

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Buck Clayton standing outside with Freddie Green, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Count Basie and Clark Terry in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
September-1979
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
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  • Group portraits
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (21)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (22)

Genres

  • Snapshots (18)
  • Black & white photographs (15)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (22)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (22)
  • Jazz musicians (21)
  • Trumpet players (10)
  • African American men (9)
  • Men, White (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • Sound studios (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • African American band directors (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Music journalists (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Sandwiches (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Streets (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Geneva (Switzerland) (2)
  • Nice (France) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (16)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (5)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (3)
  • Knepper, Jimmy, 1927-2003 (2)
  • Pierce, Nat (2)
  • Warren, Earle (2)
  • Williams, Joe, 1918-1999 (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Aarons, Al, 1932- (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Capp, Frank (1)
  • Darville, John (1)
  • Dickenson, Vic (1)
  • Elliott, Nancy Miller (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Love, Preston (1)
  • Newman, Joe (1)
  • Peterson, Marvin Hannibal (1)
  • Powell, Jimmy, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Sims, Zoot (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thompson, Lucky, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Vignola, Jean-Pierre (1)
  • Webster, Ben, 1909-1973 (1)
  • Williams, Pinky (1)
  • (-) Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (22)

Date Published

  • 1981 (6)
  • 1990 (6)
  • 1979-09 (4)
  • 1976-09-13 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1975-07 (1)
  • 1975-08 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1982 (1)

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