Ramonda Doakes and Donald Byrd at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
Ramonda Doakes, executive director of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, stands in front of a wood-paneled wall of photographs of musicians holding a...
Ramonda Doakes, executive director of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, stands in front of a wood-paneled wall of photographs of musicians holding a...
Ramonda Doakes fills in Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a fedora, as they stand on stage near a PA speaker outside Mutual Musicians Foundation during a photo...
Rhythm and Blues musician Randy Jacobs, of the Boneshakers, smiles slightly directly at the photographer as he wears a dark fedora. Printed in the...
Trumpet player, likely Randy Sandke, with James Chirillo, guitar, Dennis Mackrel, drums, Doug Lawrence, Jerry Dodgion, Joe Temperley, saxes, and other...
Ray Brown playing bass, Ella Fitzgerald singing into a microphone, and Dizzy Gillespie looking at Fitzgerald from the side during an outdoor...
Ray Charles, an overcoat draped over his shoulders, looks at the floor to his right as he shakes the hand of a seated Myra Taylor who is wearing a...
Ray Charles, wearing sunglasses, faces a microphone in front of him. One of the national acts at the Kansas City Music Hall.
Blues musician Ray Drew in a head-shot photograph, curls his left hand fingers around his chin and looks at the photographer while wearing a captain's...
Rear of crowd and parked cars at Parade Park. One woman is looking toward the camera while the rest of the crowd looks toward the speakers.
ReBirth Brass Band, bayou funk band from New Orleans comprised of eight African American men who wear matching ReBirth t-shirts. Six of the band...
ReBirth Brass Band, a bayou funk band from New Orleans comprised of eight African American men who stand in a group together with their arms crossed...
Buddy Tate seated with Budd Johnson, Earle Warren, Vic Dickenson, Jimmy Knepper and Bob Wilber during a recording session.
Budd Johnson and Earle Warren on sax with Vic Dickenson, Jimmy Knepper, Bob Wilber and Lee Konitz during a recording session; Buck Clayton off to the...
Jimmy Rushing, Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, unidentified African American man (partly out of frame), and possibly Urbie Green and Danny Bank (backs...
Buck Clayton, Harry James and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...
Publicity photo of Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...
Publicity photo of Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...
Publicity photo of Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely as part of the...
Publicity photo of Buck Clayton, Harry James and a group of unidentified musicians performing in a recording studio in Hollywood, California, likely...
Portrait of Red Callender, smiling and facing the camera.
Red Richards seated in a sound studio with a microphone hanging just to his left.
Red Richards playing piano and singing into a microphone.
Reggae At Will, a reggae band from St. Louis, Missouri comprised of six African American men who sit or crouch on the grass and look seriously at the...
Regina Carter stands center stage playing her fiddle as she performs as part of a quartet for the Merging Generations concert in Sheldon Concert Hall...
Keter Betts stands in a closet playing his double bass as he looks down at the Bucky Pizzarelli sitting on a upholstered chair playing his jazz guitar...