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"Joe Liggins Leader of the Famous Honeydrippers"

Image

Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.

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

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard

Image

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard laughing and talking in a recording studio. Brown is holding a double bass and shaking...

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

Barry White

Image

Publicity photo of Barry White looking forward and smiling. White is holding one hand up to his chest and is wearing a white suit jacket and shirt...

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

Benny Carter playing saxophone in rehearsal

Image

Benny Carter facing forward and looking to the side while playing saxophone, possibly in a rehearsal. In the background are several musicians playing...

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

Benny Carter playing saxophone on stage

Image

Benny Carter on stage and playing saxophone on stage next to a microphone. Carter is facing forward, looking to the side, and is wearing a jacket and...

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

Benny Carter seated by his instruments

Image

Benny Carter seated, holding music, and looking up while talking. At his feet are a trumpet, saxophone, and clarinet on stands.

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

Benny Carter sitting and playing saxophone

Image

Benny Carter sitting on a stool or bench and playing saxophone. Carter is facing to the side and looking up.

Date Published
1943
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Benny Carter wearing white suit

Image

Publicity photo of Benny Carter leaning forward and looking to the side. Carter is wearing white suit and black tie.

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Benny Carter wearing wool suit

Image

Benny Carter seated and looking forward while smiling. Carter is wearing a wool suit and holding a saxophone across his chest with one hand.

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

Benny Carter with saxophone

Image

Publicity photo of Benny Carter seated at an angle and looking forward. Carter is wearing a tuxedo with bowtie and holding a saxophone in one hand on...

Date Published
November-26-1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

Image

Billie Holiday straightening a tie for Louis Armstrong in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is holding a trumpet in his...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cannonball Adderley

Image

Close up, unfocused publicity photo of Cannonball Adderley wearing suit and holding saxophone.

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cannonball Adderley performing

Image

Low angle publicity photo of Cannonball Adderley wearing suit and playing saxophone.

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Capitol Baseball Team

Image

Capitol Baseball Team posing for group photo wearing uniform shirts and caps with the letter 'C'. Dave Dexter is standing third from left in the back...

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

Claude Jones

Image

Publicity photo of Claude Jones facing forward and smiling in front of horizontal shades. Jones is wearing a dark suit and striped tie.

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

Coleman Hawkins

Image

Publicity photo for Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra featuring photograph of Hawkins from the side, facing forward and smiling. Hawkins is wearing a...

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

Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra

Image

Publicity photo for Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra, "The World's Greatest Tenor Saxophonist," featuring a headshot of Hawkins leaning forward and...

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

Coleman Hawkins and Meade "Lux" Lewis

Image

Coleman Hawkins looking up and to the side while playing saxophone. Meade "Lux" Lewis is playing piano, looking up and to the side at Hawkins.

Date Published
April-22-1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie at the piano

Image

Publicity photo from the side of Count Basie seated at white piano. Basie is placing his hands on the keys and looking up, turning away from the piano...

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

Count Basie at the piano

Image

Publicity photo from the side of Count Basie seated at a white piano. Basie is placing his hands on the keys and turning his head forward.

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

Count Basie Orchestra members in performance

Image

Count Basie Orchestra members in performance including (left) Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, and Jack Washington playing saxophone; Freddie Green playing...

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

Count Basie smiling while seated at a piano

Image

Count Basie seated at the piano during a performance and smiling at the camera. An unidentified musician stands behind Basie.

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

Dave Dexter with Zutty Singleton

Image

Dave Dexter standing in the back corner of a studio talking with Zutty Singleton who is seated at a drum set. Six unidentifeid African American men...

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

Dave Dexter, Jimmie Lunceford, and Bob Rae

Image

Dave Dexter, Jimmie Lunceford, and Bob Rae sitting on a sofa in the Plantation Club (location unknown). Dexter is holding an instrument case, looking...

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

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  • (-) Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (92)

Types

  • photographs (90)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (88)
  • Gelatin silver prints (88)
  • Portrait photographs (62)
  • Publicity photographs (54)
  • Snapshots (36)
  • Group portraits (34)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Drawings (2)
  • Illustrations (2)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Caricatures (1)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Negatives (1)
  • Photomechanical prints (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (52)
  • 1931-1940 (23)
  • 1951-1960 (8)
  • 1971-1980 (6)
  • 1961-1970 (4)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (87)
  • Jazz musicians (87)
  • Pianists (23)
  • Men, White (19)
  • Saxophonists (19)
  • Trumpet players (11)
  • Conductors (Music) (10)
  • Piano (8)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (8)
  • African American women (7)
  • Double bassists (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (7)
  • Jazz singers (7)
  • Double bass (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Male singers (4)
  • Composers (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Television talk show hosts (3)
  • Vibraphonists (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Band leaders (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (2)
  • Television programs (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Arrangers (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Baseball teams (1)
  • Baseball uniforms (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Gospel musicians (1)
  • Gospel singers (1)
  • Keyboard instruments (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • (-) African American men (92)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (3)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (9)
  • Carter, Benny (8)
  • Dexter, Dave (8)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (7)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (4)
  • Hampton, Lionel (4)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (4)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (3)
  • Buckner, Milt (3)
  • Edwards, Ralph, 1913-2005 (3)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (3)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (3)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (3)
  • Lutcher, Nellie (3)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (3)
  • Adderley, Cannonball (2)
  • Garland, Ed (2)
  • Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952 (2)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (2)
  • Kirby, John, 1908-1952 (2)
  • Miller, Johnny (Double bassist) (2)
  • Moore, Oscar (2)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (2)
  • Smith, Willie, 1910-1967 (2)
  • Bailey, Buster (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Brown, Bam (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Buckner, Teddy, 1909-1994 (1)
  • Butts, Jimmy, 1917- (1)
  • Casey, Al (1)
  • Catlett, Sid, 1910-1951 (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Crawford, Jimmy (1)
  • Crawford, Traverse, 1916-1975 (1)
  • Daniels, Howard (1)
  • Darensbourg, Joe, 1906-1985 (1)
  • Davis, Miles (1)
  • Duke, George (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Gaillard, Slim (1)
  • Gaines, Lee, 1914-1987 (1)
  • Glenn, Lloyd (1)
  • Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990 (1)
  • Gray, Wardell, 1921-1955 (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Greer, Sonny (1)
  • Hall, Minor, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Hardwick, Otto, 1904-1970 (1)
  • Heard, J. C. (James Charles), 1917-1988 (1)
  • Holland, Clinton (1)
  • Jackson, Edward (Vocalist) (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Jones, Claude (1)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (1)
  • Jordan, Taft, 1915-1981 (1)
  • Kenton, Stan (1)
  • Lewis, Harry, 1914-1984 (1)
  • Lewis, Meade, 1905-1964 (1)
  • Liggins, Joe (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Miller, Bill, 1915-2006 (1)
  • Millinder, Lucky (1)
  • Monk, Thelonious (1)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (1)
  • Norris, Al (1)
  • Ory, Kid, 1886-1973 (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988 (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Rae, Bob (1)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Salisbury, George, 1918-1986 (1)
  • Sherman, Jimmy (1)
  • Stringer, Dean (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (1)
  • Tompkins, Eddie (1)
  • Trumbauer, Bill, 1923-1978 (1)
  • Wachsteter, George, 1911-2004 (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Washington, Jack, 1910-1964 (1)
  • White, Barry, 1944-2003 (1)
  • Williams, Billy, 1910-1984 (1)
  • Williams, Ira (Vocalist) (1)
  • Wilson, Gerald, 1918-2014 (1)
  • Wynne, Philippé (1)
  • Young, Trummy (1)

Events

  • WDAF's Dixieland Jubilee (1949 : Los Angeles) (3)
  • Cavalcade of Jazz (4th : 1948 : Los Angeles, California) (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (39)
  • 1941 (20)
  • 1950 (16)
  • 1935 (15)
  • 1940 (13)
  • 1975 (6)
  • 1937 (5)
  • 1936 (4)
  • 1949-10-07 (3)
  • 1952-12-31 (3)
  • 1955 (3)
  • 1960 (3)
  • 1965 (3)
  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1944 (2)
  • 1948 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1979 (2)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1940-11-26 (1)
  • 1943 (1)
  • 1945-05-16 (1)
  • 1945-09-04 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1946-04-22 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1961 (1)

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