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Ahmad Alaadeen, David Basse, and Bernard "Step Buddy" Anderson (trumpet) enjoy performing

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), looks straight at the photographer with a surprised face. David Basse (vocal), standing and singing into a microphone...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Pearl Thuston, Luqman Hamza, Myra Taylor, Clark Terry, and others at the Gem Theater

Image

Group shot of Ahmad Alaadeen (third from right), Pearl Thuston (second from right), Luqman Hamza (far right), Myra Taylor (seated, left), Clark Terry...

Date Published
May-02-2010
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Band listens to Bobby Watson and Tyrone Clark play

Image

The band watches Bobby Watson play an alto saxophone in a tent with open sides. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool in the left foreground...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Buck Clayton All Stars Copenhagen concert

Image

"Buck Clayton All Stars featuring Jimmy Rushing: Copenhagen Concert" ( Emmett Berry, Earle Warren, Buddy Tate, Dicky Wells, Al Williams, Gene Ramey...

Date Published
September-1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing

Image

Jimmy Rushing seated with Buck Clayton.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing

Image

Jimmy Rushing, waving, with Buck Clayton, smiling, seated at tables with an unidentified group of people.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing in England

Image

Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing in suits and trench coats, standing on a street; Buck holding his trumpet and a handkerchief looking mischievous. Jimmy...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Joe Williams

Image

Buck Clayton, wearing an Irish cap, checked suit jacket and wide lapels, speaking with Joe Williams, wearing a dashiki, with a trumpet case on a table...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Joe Williams stand with a friend

Image

An unidentified man stands in front of curtained windows with Buck Clayton and likely Joe Williams.

Date Published
May-1975
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Norene Tate on stage

Image

Norene Tate speaking into a microphone on stage with Buck Clayton.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton seated with Dicky Wells and possibly Nancy Wilson

Image

Buck Clayton seated with Dicky Wells and, possibly, Nancy Wilson.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Big Joe Turner and others

Image

Joe Turner singing on stage with Buck Clayton, Stuff Smith on violin and Jimmy Woode on bass in Paris, France.

Date Published
1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing, and Nancy Wilson

Image

Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing seated by tables, turned away from the camera, with a group of unidentified people. Nancy Wilson is standing and...

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Kenny Clarke, and possibly Nancy Wilson smiling for the photographer

Image

Kenny Clarke with Buck Clayton, possibly Nancy Wilson and two unidentified people.

Date Published
March-1963
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Norene Tate performing with Mary Lou Williams in the background

Image

Norene Tate speaking into a microphone on stage with Buck Clayton pointing at the crowd. Mary Lou Williams and unidentified white man in the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton. Joe Turner. Feel so fine!

Image

"Buck Clayton/Joe Turner: feel so fine".

Date Published
June-02-1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bull Moose Jackson, Buck Clayton, and Panama Francis

Image

Bull Moose Jackson with Buck Clayton and Panama Francis, standing in an office, laughing, wearing suits.

Date Published
1977
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bull Moose Jackson, Buck Clayton, and Panama Francis

Image

Bull Moose Jackson with Buck Clayton and Panama Francis, standing in an office, wearing suits, smiling as they look over their left shoulders.

Date Published
1977
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Carmen McRae and an unidentified woman with Buck Clayton

Image

Buck Clayton seated at an outdoor table and speaking with Carmen McRae and an unidentified woman.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Carolyn Grey and Shorty Sherock

Image

Singer Carolyn Grey sitting on a stool and looking at music while smiling with Shorty Sherock standing behind her playing trumpet. In front is an NBC...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

City Light Orchestra performing outside

Image

City Light Orchestra: David Basse (drums), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), unidentified bass player, unidentified (saxophone), unidentified (trumpet)...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Coaching a jazz singer

Image

Buck Clayton and an unidentified African American female student singing into a microphone during a jazz class, with two African American male trumpet...

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

Eddie Baker's New Breed Orchestra

Image

Eddie Baker's New Breed Orchestra includes Eddie Baker (piano), Herman Walder (saxophone, first row, far right), Ahmad Alaadeen (sax, first row, far...

Date Published
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Eddie Saunders is surprised by Lisa Henry as Ida McBeth looks on

Image

Eddie Saunders, holding a saxophone, opens his mouth in surprise at Lisa Henry, jazz singer, who is mostly obscured by Ida McBeth, jazz singer. Ida...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Eubie Blake dancing with Maxine Sullivan on his birthday

Image

Eubie Blake dancing with Maxine Sullivan with jazz musicians playing for them (Billy Taylor, piano ; Max Kaminsky, trumpet ; Tyree Glenn, trombone...

Date Published
February-11-1972
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

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Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (29)
  • Betty Crow Collection (15)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (9)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (5)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (2)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (72)

Genres

  • Group portraits (62)
  • Snapshots (39)
  • Color photographs (38)
  • Black & white photographs (34)
  • Gelatin silver prints (34)
  • Portrait photographs (17)
  • Publicity photographs (6)
  • Reproductions (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (18)
  • 1941-1950 (9)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (67)
  • African American jazz musicians (61)
  • African American men (28)
  • Saxophonists (27)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (22)
  • Men, White (21)
  • African American women (20)
  • Double bassists (19)
  • Jazz musicians, White (19)
  • Pianists (16)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (12)
  • African American women jazz singers (10)
  • Trombonists (10)
  • Fiddlers (7)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Big bands (3)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (3)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Diplomats (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Music students (2)
  • Native American women (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Trombone (2)
  • Trumpet (2)
  • African American entertainers (1)
  • African American singers (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Dance (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Flute (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Music journalists (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (72)
  • (-) Trumpet players (72)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (19)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Chelsea (London, England) (3)
  • Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho (2)
  • Copenhagen (Denmark) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Zagreb (Croatia) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (27)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (9)
  • Kessler, Stan (8)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (8)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (8)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (7)
  • Hicks, Bryan (7)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (6)
  • McBeth, Ida (6)
  • Ning, Mike (5)
  • Saunders, Eddie (5)
  • Taylor, Myra (5)
  • Francis, Panama (4)
  • Jackson, Bull Moose, 1919-1989 (4)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (4)
  • Tate, Norene (4)
  • Warner, Duck (4)
  • Hamza, Luqman (3)
  • Jones, Carmell (3)
  • Mahogany, Kevin (3)
  • Martin, Arch, 1931-2009 (3)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (3)
  • White, Ned (Musician) (3)
  • Wilson, Nancy, 1937- (3)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Bailey, Mildred (2)
  • Basse, David (2)
  • Burns, David M. (David Mitchell), -2013 (2)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (2)
  • Durrett, Warren (2)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (2)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Klein, Manny, 1908-1994 (2)
  • May, Rod (2)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (2)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (2)
  • Ruppenthal, Wayne (2)
  • Terry, Clark (2)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (2)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (2)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (2)
  • Williams, Joe, 1918-1999 (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (1)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (1)
  • Berry, Emmett (1)
  • Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983 (1)
  • Branstetter, Bob (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Cary, Dick, 1916-1994 (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (1)
  • Clarke, Kenny, 1914-1985 (1)
  • Cohn, Sonny, 1925-2006 (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989 (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Glenn, Roger (1)
  • Glenn, Tyree (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Grey, Carolyn, 1922- (1)
  • Humes, Helen (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Johnson, Sam, Jr. (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Lesberg, Jack (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Lovelle, Herb (1)
  • Lucas, Dennis (Musician) (1)
  • Mair, Jim, 1966- (1)
  • Masse, Jean-Marie (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • McGhee, Charles E. (1)
  • McRae, Carmen (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Parenti, Tony, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Pearson, Al (1)
  • Phillips, Flip (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Ram, Buck (1)
  • Ramey, Gene (1)
  • Russell, Pee Wee (1)
  • Sherock, Shorty, 1915-1980 (1)
  • Smith, Stuff (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Strozier, Mark (1)
  • Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 (1)
  • Venuti, Rick (1)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (1)
  • Ward, Helen, 1916-1998 (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Whitmer, Tim (1)
  • Williams, Al, 1919- (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (1)
  • Woode, Jimmy (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)
  • Young, Lester, 1909-1959 (1)

Events

  • "Duke Ellington Tribute: Jammin' at the Gem" concert series (2010 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)

Date Published

  • 1991 (10)
  • 1995 (10)
  • 2001-09-15 (8)
  • 1961 (7)
  • 1970 (7)
  • 1945 (6)
  • 1950 (6)
  • 1981 (5)
  • 1990 (5)
  • 1951 (4)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1977 (4)
  • 1964-06 (3)
  • 1993-03 (3)
  • 1941 (2)
  • 1942 (2)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1986 (2)
  • 2010-05-02 (2)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1959-09 (1)
  • 1963-03 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1965-06-02 (1)
  • 1972-02-11 (1)
  • 1975-05 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1992-07 (1)
  • 1992-10 (1)
  • 1998-01-07 (1)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)

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