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Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard

Image

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Dick Powell, and Slim Gaillard laughing and talking in a recording studio. Brown is holding a double bass and shaking...

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

Ben Webster plays

Image

Ben Webster playing saxophone with Buck Clayton in his military uniform seated behind him along with Leonard Gaskin, Tiny Grimes, and an unidentified...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bob Haggart and Frank Trumbauer

Image

Double bassist Bob Haggart and saxophonist Frank Trumbauer looking over music in a recording studio. Haggart and Trumbauer are both looking down at a...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Chauncey Downs Orchestra at Fairyland Park

Image

Chauncey Downs Orchestra performing at Fairyland Park on Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The musicians are on stage in a band shell with a...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Chubby Jackson featured with Woody Herman and his orchestra

Image

Publicity photo for Woody Herman and his orchestra featuring photo of Chubby Jackson playing double bass. Jackson is standing and facing forward while...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie, Jo Jones and Walter Page performing

Image

Count Basie seated playing piano with Jo Jones playing drums and Walter Page playing bass; all are looking over the left side of the photo; sheets of...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Don Tiff playing piano at the Strand

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Don Tiff (piano) with members of the Raymond Scott Orchestra performing on stage at the Strand Theater in New York City.

Member of
Don Tiff Collection
Performance photo with note on verso

Ed Garland playing bass

Image

Ed Garland facing forward and looking down while playing bass in the studio. Garland is wearing a white collared shirt and suspenders.

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

Eddie Safranski playing bass

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Eddie Safranski playing bass on stage with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Safranski is leaning forward and smiling. Only one other musician is partly seen...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Elmer James playing double bass

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Elmer James playing double bass and looking to the side over the piano. James is wearing a double breasted suit.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Gene Ramey

Image

Gene Ramey playing double bass on stage while looking down and smiling. Ramey is wearing a dark colored suit and tie.

Date Published
1941
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Hank Wayland

Image

Frederick (Hank) Wayland leaning forward and looking down while playing double bass. Wayland is wearing a white shirt, suspenders, and a black bowtie.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jack Lesberg

Image

Jack Lesberg, Eddie Condon's solid-rocking bass player, shown as he appears in t he March of Time film, "Night Club Boom," has been featured with...

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

John Kirby playing bass

Image

John Kirby looking to the side and playing bass. Kirby is wearing a checkered suit and black tie.

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

John Simmons

Image

John Simmons playing double bass in a rehearsal studio. Simmons is looking to the side and is wearing a checkered shirt.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

King Cole Trio

Image

Publicity photo of King Cole Trio featuring Oscar Moore playing guitar, Nat King Cole sitting at a piano, and Johnny Miller playing bass. All three...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Milt Abel under a tree

Image

Milt Abel crouching under a tree in front of a large building in Philadelphia. He's wearing a light colored suit and a hat.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Ray Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie

Image

Ray Brown playing bass, Ella Fitzgerald singing into a microphone, and Dizzy Gillespie looking at Fitzgerald from the side during an outdoor...

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

Tommy Potter and Charlie Parker

Image

Tommy Potter playing double bass and Charlie Parker playing saxophone. Potter is close to the camera and Parker appears in between Potter and the neck...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Double bassists
  • 1941-1950

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (14)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)
  • Don Tiff Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Performance photo with note on verso (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Snapshots (17)
  • Portrait photographs (11)
  • Group portraits (8)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • (-) 1941-1950 (19)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (15)
  • African American jazz musicians (13)
  • African American men (7)
  • Saxophonists (5)
  • Double bass (4)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • (-) Double bassists (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Brown, Bam (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (1)
  • Gaillard, Slim (1)
  • Garland, Ed (1)
  • Gaskin, Leonard (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Grimes, Tiny, 1916-1989 (1)
  • Haggart, Bob (1)
  • Jackson, Chubby (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kirby, John, 1908-1952 (1)
  • Lesberg, Jack (1)
  • Miller, Johnny (Double bassist) (1)
  • Moore, Oscar (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988 (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Ramey, Gene (1)
  • Safranski, Eddie, 1918-1974 (1)
  • Simmons, John, 1918-1979 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Tiff, Don, 1910-1998 (1)
  • Trumbauer, Frank (1)
  • Wayland, Frederick (Hank) (1)
  • Webster, Ben, 1909-1973 (1)

Events

  • Strand Theatre (New York, N.Y.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (13)
  • 1941 (10)
  • 1950 (8)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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