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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 his orchestra

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Publicity photo from the side of Count Basie playing piano while looking down and smiling. Basie is wearing a tuxedo.

Date Published
1939
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie and Joe Belford at Roseland Ballroom

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Count Basie shaking hands with Joe Belford at the Roseland Ballroom. Basie is smiling and looking up. Belford is wearing a pinstripe suit and...

Date Published
December-1936
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

Dana Suesse seated at a piano with George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman

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Dana Suesse seated at a piano flanked by George Gershwin (left) and Paul Whiteman (right) in New York.

Date Published
October-1932
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. 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

Duke Ellington

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Headshot of Duke Ellington looking to the side. Ellington is wearing a dark suit and tie.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Duke Ellington

Image

Publicity photo of Duke Ellington looking forward and smiling while standing against a wall with hands in his pockets. Ellington is wearing a tuxedo...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Duke Ellington at the piano

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Publicity photo from the side of Duke Ellington sitting at the piano with hands on the keys. Ellington is wearing a tuxedo.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines

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Caricature of Earl Hines's head smiling with a bowtie. Drawn by George Wachsteter.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines

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Publicity photo for Earl Hines and his orchestra featuring photo of Hines sitting and facing forward while smiling. Hines is wearing a white suit and...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines and his orchestra

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Publicity photo for Earl Hines and his orchestra featuring headshot of Hines looking up and smiling. Hines is wearing a white tuxedo and black bowtie.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter

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Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Dave Dexter standing around a radio (or possibly a phonograph) looking down at a record in Dexter's hand at Basie's...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ed Heywood

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Publicity photo of Ed Heywood turning to the side and facing forward while smiling. Heywood is wearing a patterned suit and smiling.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Luzi Korngold, and Henry Blanke

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold dining with his wife, Luzi Korngold, and American film producer and director, Henry Blanke, in the Green Room at Warner...

Date Published
September-01-1936
September-30-1936
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Gus Arnheim

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Headshot of Gus Arnheim facing forward and smiling while wearing tuxedo and white tie.

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Horace Henderson

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Publicity photo of Horace Henderson sitting in front of a piano with one arm resting on the top of the piano. Henderson is facing forward with a...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Horace Henderson seated at a piano

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Horace Henderson photographed from the side sitting at a piano during performance in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson is looking up and smiling, wearing a...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ivy Anderson and Leon Rene rehearsing music

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Ivy Anderson leaning on a piano looking at music and Leon Rene playing the piano while smiling during a rehearsal in a studio. An NBC microphone hangs...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jay McShann

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Publicity photo of Jay McShann sitting at an upright piano with one hand on the keys. The piano top is removed, revealing the inside hammers and...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jay McShann and band members

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Jay McShann seated at the piano with his band standing around it; McShann (at piano) with Bill Nolan, Walter Brown, Charlie Parker, Bob Mabane...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and his band on stage at the Century Room

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Jay McShann on stage at the piano with his band (McShann (piano), Gene Ramey (bass), Walter Brown (vocals), Gus Johnson (drums), Bud Gould (trombone)...

Date Published
February-1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano

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Jay McShann and band performing: Gene Ramey (bass), McShann (piano), Gus Johnson (drums), Walter Brown (vocals), Bud Gould (trombone), unidentified...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with a band

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Jay McShann playing piano with a band (Orville Minor, Bob Mabane, Gus Johnson, Bernard Anderson, Charlie Parker, Gene Ramey); recording for radio...

Date Published
November-30-1940
December-02-1940
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jess Stacy

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Jess Stacy sitting at a dining table and looking to the side with his head resting on one hand. Stacy is wearing a pinstripe suit.

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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  • Pianists
  • 1931-1940

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (29)
  • Jay McShann Collection (5)
  • Don Tiff Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Performance photo with note on verso (1)

Types

  • photographs (36)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (35)
  • Gelatin silver prints (35)
  • Portrait photographs (29)
  • Publicity photographs (17)
  • Snapshots (16)
  • Group portraits (14)
  • Advertising (1)
  • Drawings (1)
  • Illustrations (1)
  • Reproductions (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (1)
  • (-) 1931-1940 (37)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (26)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • African American men (10)
  • Piano (6)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Musical instruments (4)
  • Conductors (Music) (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Composers (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Portraits, American (1)
  • Record labels (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) Pianists (37)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (6)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (5)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (4)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (4)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (4)
  • Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986 (4)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (3)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (3)
  • Mabane, Bob (3)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (3)
  • Ramey, Gene (3)
  • Gould, Bud (2)
  • Henderson, Horace (2)
  • Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 (2)
  • Minor, Orville (2)
  • Reichman, Joe, 1898-1970 (2)
  • Anderson, Ivie (1)
  • Arnheim, Gus (1)
  • Baird, Taswell (1)
  • Belford, Joe (1)
  • Blanke, Henry, 1901-1981 (1)
  • Bruce, Harold (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Fergenson, Harold (1)
  • Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Heywoood, Eddie, 1915-1989 (1)
  • Jackson, John (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957 (1)
  • Korngold, Luzi (1)
  • Miranda, Carmen, 1909-1955 (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • René, Leon, 1902-1982 (1)
  • Stacy, Jess, 1904-1995 (1)
  • Suesse, Dana, 1909-1987 (1)
  • Tiff, Don, 1910-1998 (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Wachsteter, George, 1911-2004 (1)
  • Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 (1)
  • Whiteman, Paul, 1890-1967 (1)
  • Yancey, Jimmy, 1898-1951 (1)

Events

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

Date Published

  • 1940 (23)
  • 1935 (13)
  • 1939 (4)
  • 1937 (3)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1932-10 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1936-09-01 (1)
  • 1936-09-30 (1)
  • 1936-12 (1)
  • 1940-02 (1)
  • 1940-11-30 (1)
  • 1940-12-02 (1)

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