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Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet

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Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet, comprised of four white women and one white man, play jazz, soul, and funk music, stand together laughing. One band...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Boko Maru

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BokoMaru, a Kansas City jazz and funk band comprised of five white men, stand outside all wearing dark colors. The photo is shot from the ground up...

Date Published
1994
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Deep Banana Blackout

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Deep Banana Blackout, a jazz-funk band comprised of one white woman and seven white men, sit and stand outside on rock boulders. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1995
2003
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Groove Hogs

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The Groove Hogs, a funk, jazz, soul and blues band comprised of ten white men, lie on a floor of alternating black and white square tiles, with their...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Groove Hogs

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The Groove Hogs, a funk, jazz, soul, and blues band comprised of ten white men, stand on or in front of a porch of a slat wood building. Printed in...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Hot Buttered Rhythm

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Hot Buttered Rhythm, a jazz-funk fusion band comprised of six African American men, stand and sit in front of an open garage. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lágbájá

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Yoruban percussionist and saxophonist Lágbájá plays Afrobeat, jazz, funk and soul music. He looks directly at the camera through a hooded and masked...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Ray

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Michael Ray, funk, soul, and jazz trumpet player, grins and holds his trumpet up by his face while he holds his right hand, fingers splayed, below the...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe

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Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, a funk, soul, and jazz band comprised of three African American men, and five white men, stand on stairs in colorful...

Date Published
1994
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Oteil Burbridge

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Oteil is a jazz, funk, soul, and rock musician who plays bass guitar, guitar, drums, banjo and the clarinet, and is the bandleader of the Peacemakers...

Date Published
1998
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Pele Juju

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Pele Juju, a band playing jazz, reggae, folk, world, and country music and comprised of all white women, laugh as they stand or crouch together...

Date Published
1992
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Pharaohs

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Pharaohs with Sir Charles L. "Ki" Handy, in a montage of photographs on top of hand drawn logos of African American (likely) musicians and one white...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Vinx

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Vinx, percussionist and singer, leans with his ankles crossed against a rough wall and looks down to the left toward the light on the left side...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Vinx

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Vinx, percussionist and singer, rests his hands on the back of a light colored top hat he is wearing and looks seriously at the camera in a close-up...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Walter "Wolfman" Washington

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Walter "Wolfman" Washington, jazz, funk, and blues guitarist, laughs and stands with one hand in his pocket and the other resting on the body of a...

Date Published
1986
1988
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Walter "Wolfman" Washington and the Roadmasters

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Walter "Wolfman" Washington and the Roadmasters, a jazz, funk and blues band comprised of two African American men and five white men, who stand in a...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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  • Funk musicians
  • Jazz musicians

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  • Grand Emporium Collection (16)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (16)
  • Black & white photographs (14)
  • Gelatin silver prints (14)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (10)
  • 2001-2010 (8)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Bands (Music) (10)
  • African American men (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Soul musicians (8)
  • African American jazz musicians (4)
  • Blues musicians (4)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Percussionists (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Avant-garde (Music) (1)
  • Black people (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Music--African influences (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Yoruba (African people) (1)
  • (-) Funk musicians (16)
  • (-) Jazz musicians (16)

Subjects, People

  • Ray, Michael (Trumpet player) (2)
  • Vinx (Musician) (2)
  • Washington, Walter (2)
  • Burbridge, Oteil, 1964- (1)
  • Handy, Charles L. (1)
  • Lagbaja (1)

Date Published

  • 2001 (4)
  • 2004 (4)
  • 1994 (3)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 1986 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2003 (1)

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