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Count Basie

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Publicity photo of Count Basie facing forward, wearing tweed jacket, and raising his arms up.

Date Published
1943
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. 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 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 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 his orchestra

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Publicity photo from the side of Count Basie playing piano while looking down and smiling. Basie is wearing a tuxedo.

Date Published
1939
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 at piano

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Publicity photo of Count Basie seated at the piano and turning toward the camera. Basie is wearing a tweed jacket.

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

Count Basie at the piano

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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

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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 in tuxedo

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Count Basie against a wall facing forward, wearing a tuxedo and bowtie, and smiling.

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

Count Basie performing

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Publicity photo of Count Basie smiling and playing piano on stage. Basie is looking up and to the side, wearing a light pinstripe suit. An...

Date Published
1978
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. 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 smiling while seated at a piano

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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

Count Basie with microphone

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Headshot of Count Basie facing forward, holding microphone, and smiling at camera. Basie is wearing a tweed jacket.

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

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

Dave Dexter, John Hammond, Count Basie, and Sonny Burke

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In Hollywood, in 1946, Count Basie smokes his pipe and enjoys the company of his supporters Dave Dexter, Jr., the writer and record producer; John...

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

Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter

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Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter standing around a radio (or possibly a phonograph) looking down at a record in Dexter's hand at Basie's...

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

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Member of

  • (-) Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (33)

Types

  • photographs (33)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (32)
  • Gelatin silver prints (32)
  • Portrait photographs (32)
  • Group portraits (24)
  • Snapshots (22)
  • Publicity photographs (11)
  • Color photographs (1)
  • Film negatives (1)
  • Safety film negatives (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (21)
  • 1971-1980 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (5)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • Pianists (22)
  • Jazz musicians (12)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (12)
  • African American men (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Mickey Mouse (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Women singers (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (2)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (11)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (3)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (3)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (3)
  • Cagney, James, 1899-1986 (2)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (2)
  • Hampton, Lionel (2)
  • Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995 (2)
  • Belford, Joe (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Burke, Sonny, 1914-1980 (1)
  • Donahue, Sam (1)
  • Durbin, Deanna (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Hapmton, Lionel (1)
  • Miranda, Carmen, 1909-1955 (1)
  • Norman, Gene (1)
  • Powell, Jimmy, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Rogers, Billie (1)
  • Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004 (1)
  • Symphony Sid (1)
  • Tatum, Art, 1909-1956 (1)
  • Thompson, Lucky, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962 (1)
  • Warren, Harry, 1893-1981 (1)
  • Wilson, Don, 1900-1982 (1)
  • (-) Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (33)

Date Published

  • 1945 (11)
  • 1950 (10)
  • 1975 (5)
  • 1980 (5)
  • 1944 (4)
  • 1946 (3)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1943 (2)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1936-12 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1978 (1)

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