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Buck Clayton playing in an ensemble during Dick Gibson's Jazz Party

Image

An unidentified African American male clarinetist with Coleman Hawkins, sax; Buck Clayton, trumpet; likely Urbie Green, trombone; and Gus Johnson...

Date Published
September-1968
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with jazz ensemble during Dick Gibson's Jazz Party

Image

An unidentified African American male clarinetist and pianist with Coleman Hawkins, sax; Buck Clayton, trumpet; likely Urbie Green, trombone; Gus...

Date Published
September-1968
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Coleman Hawkins

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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 Buck Clayton performing at the Newport Jazz Festival

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Coleman Hawkins, playing his saxophone with smiling eyes toward the trombonist next to him (only the trombone is visible) and Buck Clayton playing his...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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

Recording session with Jimmy Rushing and Coleman Hawkins

Image

Jimmy Rushing, Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, unidentified African American man (partly out of frame), and possibly Urbie Green and Danny Bank (backs...

Date Published
February-26-1958
February-27-1958
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins talking in the green room

Image

Roy Eldridge speaking with Coleman Hawkins in the green room; New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
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  • African American men
  • Hawkins, Coleman

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (5)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (8)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Snapshots (6)
  • Group portraits (5)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Publicity photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (3)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (8)
  • Jazz musicians (8)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Jazz ensembles (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound studios (1)
  • (-) African American men (8)

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • Vail (Colo.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (4)
  • Green, Urbie (3)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (2)
  • Bank, Danny (1)
  • Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989 (1)
  • Lewis, Meade, 1905-1964 (1)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (1)
  • (-) Hawkins, Coleman (8)

Events

  • Newport Jazz Festival (1956) (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (2)
  • 1950 (2)
  • 1968-09 (2)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1946-04-22 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1958-02-26 (1)
  • 1958-02-27 (1)

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