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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

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Count Basie in a tuxedo.

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

Count Basie

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Portrait of Count Basie from the shoulders up; looking upwards and to the right; wearing a suit and tie.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Count Basie

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Portrait of Count Basie.

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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 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 at 12th Street and Vine

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Count Basie standing at 12th Street and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri. He is standing in front of street signs and is smiling while holding a...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow 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 hamming it up with Buck Clayton, Esme Sarnoff, and John Hammond

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Buck Clayton, Esme Sarnoff and John Hammond laughing while Count Basie hams it up.

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

Count Basie Orchestra at an unidentified venue

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Count Basie Orchestra performing at an unidentified venue. From left to right Count Basie playing piano, Rodney Richardson playing bass, Jimmy Rushing...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Count Basie performing

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Count Basie seated at a piano. Likely Jo Jones on drum set behind Count Basie.

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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 a cigar

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Portrait of Count Basie smoking a cigar.

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Count Basie with a white hat

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Count Basie wearing a white hat; head only and facing the camera.

Date Published
1971
1980
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

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

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  • Jazz musicians
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (18)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (12)
  • Betty Crow Collection (2)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (35)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (28)
  • Gelatin silver prints (28)
  • Group portraits (20)
  • Portrait photographs (20)
  • Snapshots (15)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Publicity photographs (6)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (8)
  • 1931-1940 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (26)
  • African American men (15)
  • Pianists (13)
  • Band directors (11)
  • Trumpet players (7)
  • Men, White (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Piano (4)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (4)
  • African American band directors (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Cigars (1)
  • Cigar smoking (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Portraits (1)
  • Postcards (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Socialites (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) Jazz musicians (35)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)
  • Nice (France) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (9)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (4)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (3)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (3)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (3)
  • Cagney, James, 1899-1986 (2)
  • Dexter, Dave (2)
  • Hampton, Lionel (2)
  • Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995 (2)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Brubeck, Dave (1)
  • Donahue, Sam (1)
  • Durbin, Deanna (1)
  • Elliott, Nancy Miller (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Hapmton, Lionel (1)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (1)
  • Miranda, Carmen, 1909-1955 (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Rogers, Billie (1)
  • Sarnoff, Esme (1)
  • Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004 (1)
  • Symphony Sid (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962 (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (1)
  • Wilson, Don, 1900-1982 (1)
  • (-) Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (35)

Date Published

  • 1950 (8)
  • 1945 (5)
  • 1981 (5)
  • 1990 (5)
  • 1931 (3)
  • 1940 (3)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1982 (3)
  • 1944 (2)
  • 1971 (2)
  • 1979-09 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1978 (1)

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