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Actor Conrad Janis speaking

Image

Actor Conrad Janis speaking during an event for USAir at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel; an unidentified white man is on the left and an...

Date Published
January-1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

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

Buck Clayton solo during filming

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Publicity photo of Buck Clayton performing a trumpet solo during filming for The Benny Goodman Story; Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) is standing at...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Filming the Benny Goodman Story

Image

Publicity shot showing the filming crew and audience as Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) performs with the band in a reenactment of the 1938 Carnegie...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Frank Sinatra with Bill Miller

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Frank Sinatra standing in a recording studio looking at music on a piano with Bill Miller and holding his hands in his pockets. An unidentified...

Date Published
1961
1965
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Jordan and Dave Dexter

Image

Louis Jordan, on the far left, sitting at a table with microphones with Dave Dexter, on the far right, and an unidentified man. All three are smiling...

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

Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

Image

Louis Jordan, wearing a patterned suit and tie, holding a letter and standing to the left of an unidentified man in a photo still from the film "Swing...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

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Louis Jordan, wearing a checkered suit, standing on a desk and singing in the middle of a room full of students in a photo still from the film "Swing...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

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Louis Jordan, wearing a checkered suit, shaking the hand of an unidentified woman and standing next to an unidentified man wearing academic robes in a...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

Image

Louis Jordan, wearing a suit and pointing up with his finger, standing between an unidentified man and woman in a photo still from the film "Swing...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Mayor Richard Berkley speaking

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Actor Conrad Janis, unidentified white man, Mayor Richard Berkley (at podium), unidentified African American man (obscured), and Jay McShann (obscured...

Date Published
January-1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Nat King Cole, Helen Humes, Herb Shriner, and Jimmie Lunceford

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Nat King Cole, Helen Humes, Herb Shriner, and Jimmie Lunceford standing around an Armed Forces Radio Service microphone, Cole is wearing a pinstripe...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Robert Preston, Bill Rigney, and Nat King Cole

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Robert Preston, Bill Rigney, Nat King Cole posing for photo in baseball uniforms. Preston is holding a baseball glove and looking up. Rigney is...

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

Scene from The Benny Goodman Story

Image

Publicity photo of a scene from the film where Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) is speaking with Hy Averback (as manager Willard Alexander); also seen...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Steve Allen as Benny Goodman

Image

Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) performing with members of the band, including Buck Clayton, trumpet, as part of the film The Benny...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Steve Allen as Benny Goodman

Image

Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) performing with the band in a reenactment of the 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert; Buck Clayton is...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
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  • Actors
  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (9)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (5)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Group portraits (16)
  • Black & white photographs (13)
  • Gelatin silver prints (13)
  • Publicity photographs (10)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Color photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (8)
  • 1981-1990 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (9)
  • Jazz musicians (9)
  • Men, White (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Big bands (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Clarinetists (4)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Flowers (2)
  • Hotels (2)
  • Male actors (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Banners (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Motion picture cameras (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • (-) Actors (16)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (16)

Subjects, People

  • Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 (5)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (5)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (5)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (2)
  • Janis, Conrad (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Averback, Hy (1)
  • Berkley, Richard L., 1931- (1)
  • Brown, Bam (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Gaillard, Slim (1)
  • Green, Urbie (1)
  • Humes, Helen (1)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (1)
  • Miller, Bill, 1915-2006 (1)
  • Plinger, Elmer (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Rigney, Bill, 1918-2001 (1)
  • Shriner, Herb, 1918-1970 (1)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)

Date Published

  • 1955 (5)
  • 1946 (4)
  • 1945 (3)
  • 1950 (3)
  • 1983-01 (2)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1965 (1)

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