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1986 Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival performers

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Musicians at the 1986 Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival, Pennsylvania. Back row, top left: Bob Haggart, Johnny Varro, Marty Grosz, Ray Sherman, Johnny Mince...

Date Published
1986
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

After hours session

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Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman on clarinet) with Gene Krupa (drums), Buck Clayton (trumpet), George Duvivier (bass), Teddy Wilson...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Basie Alumni Band tour group

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Basie Alumni Band tour group standing behind the tour bus in Switzerland. From left to right: Ed Lewis, Preston Love, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green...

Date Published
January-1984
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Ben Webster plays

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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

Ben Webster saxophone solo

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Ben Webster playing a saxophone solo; with Buck Clayton, trumpet, Henri Chaix, piano, Isla Eckinger, bass, Romano Cavicchiolo, drums, and Alain du...

Date Published
June-03-1967
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Eddie Durham

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Eddie Durham hugging Buck Clayton, both in suits, in front of a door with a light switch on the wall.

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

Buck Clayton and others performing on stage

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Dick Cary, Vic Dickenson, Buck Clayton and Eddie Condon performing on stage, possibly in Melbourne or Osaka.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton conducting

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Buck Clayton conducting an orchestra with Nat Pierce on piano, Frankie Capp on drums, Harry Edison and Al Aaron on trumpets, and from left to right...

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton directing the Reno Club Band at the 1984 Kool Jazz Festival

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Buck Clayton on stage with a group of musicians and two unidentified men (likely: Hank Jones, piano; Freddie Green, guitar; Philly Jo Jones, drums...

Date Published
June-30-1984
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton in Switzerland

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet with Ben Webster, sax, Isla Eckinger, bass, Romano Cavicchiolo, drums and Alain DuBois, guitar, during a concert in Baden...

Date Published
June-03-1967
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton in Switzerland

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet with Ben Webster, sax, Henri Chaix, piano, Isla Eckinger, bass, Romano Cavicchiolo, drums and Alain DuBois, guitar...

Date Published
June-03-1967
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton listening to the band at the 1984 Kool Jazz Festival

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Buck Clayton on stage with a group of musicians (likely: Hank Jones, piano; Freddie Green, guitar; Philly Jo Jones, drums; Eddie Jones, bass; Curtis...

Date Published
June-30-1984
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton playing trumpet in Switzerland

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet on stage with Alain du Bois, guitar, and Georges Furrer, bass in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
February-07-1966
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton playing with Eddie Condon's band

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Buck Clayton performing in a club with Eddie Condon's Band; seen are Eddie Condon, guitar, Leonard Gaskin, bassist, Herbie Hall, clarinet, likely...

Date Published
August-29-1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton speaking at a performance

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Buck Clayton speaking into a microphone with the Swingin' Dream Band including James Chirillo, guitar, Dennis Mackrel, drums, Doug Lawrence, Jerry...

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

Buck Clayton speaking to a jazz guitar student

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Buck Clayton speaking with an unidentified African American male guitar student in a jazz class in New York City. Other students are grouped around...

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

Buck Clayton trumpet solo

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Buck Clayton playing a trumpet solo; with Ben Webster, saxophone, Romano Cavicchiolo, drums, and Alain du Bois, guitar during a concert in Baden...

Date Published
June-03-1967
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck working with two young jazz guitarists

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Buck Clayton seated and working with two young jazz guitarists (one African American man, one white man) in New York City.

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

Mickey Baker, Sweets Edison, and Buck Clayton eating a meal with a group of people.

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Buck Clayton dining with Mickey Baker, Hal Singer, possibly Marie Baker, and an unidentified group of people; Paris, France.

Date Published
1966
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

On stage

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Dick Cary, Vic Dickenson, Bud Freeman, Buck Clayton, Cliff Leeman and Eddie Condon performing on stage; possibly in Melbourne or Osaka.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

On stage in France

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Members of Buck's "French American Band" (Dave Pochonet, drums ; Andre Persiany, piano ; M. DeVillers, saxophone ; Charlie Blareau, bass ; J.P. Sasson...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Outdoor jam session

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Outdoor jam session featuring Buck Clayton, trumpet, and Guy Lafitte on tenor sax with five others in France.

Date Published
May-1967
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck Clayton on the streets of Shanghai with other musicians

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Earl West on a rickshaw with a Asian rickshaw driver; Earl West on a rickshaw with a Asian rickshaw driver. The photo is double exposed; Buck standing...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Scene from The Benny Goodman Story

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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

Watching Ben Webster perform

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View from over Buck Clayton's shoulder as he watches Ben Webster play sax; with Henri Chaix (piano), Alain du Bois (guitar), Isla Eckinger (bass)...

Date Published
June-03-1967
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
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  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (25)

Types

  • photographs (25)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Group portraits (24)
  • Snapshots (9)
  • Portrait photographs (3)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (1)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (25)
  • Jazz musicians (25)
  • Trumpet players (23)
  • African American men (20)
  • Men, White (17)
  • Jazz musicians, White (16)
  • Saxophonists (16)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (14)
  • Double bassists (13)
  • Pianists (8)
  • Trombonists (7)
  • Big bands (3)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Horn players (2)
  • Music students (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Rickshaws (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Woodwind instrument players (1)
  • (-) Guitarists (25)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  • Paris (France) (1)
  • Shanghai (China) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Du Bois, Alain (6)
  • Webster, Ben, 1909-1973 (6)
  • Cavicchiolo, Romano (5)
  • Eckinger, Isla (4)
  • Chaix, Henri (3)
  • Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973 (3)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (3)
  • Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 (2)
  • Cary, Dick, 1916-1994 (2)
  • Dickenson, Vic (2)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (2)
  • Freeman, Bud, 1906-1991 (2)
  • Fuller, Curtis, 1934- (2)
  • Gaskin, Leonard (2)
  • Jones, Eddie (2)
  • Jones, Hank, 1918-2010 (2)
  • Jones, Philly Joe (2)
  • Love, Preston (2)
  • Aarons, Al, 1932- (1)
  • Alden, Howard (1)
  • Averback, Hy (1)
  • Baker, Marie (1)
  • Baker, Mickey (1)
  • Barrett, Dan (1)
  • Beal, Eddie, 1910-1984 (1)
  • Blareau, Charlie (1)
  • Boughton, Joe (1)
  • Capp, Frank (1)
  • Chirillo, James (1)
  • Clark, Mahlon B., 1923-2007 (1)
  • Cutshall, Cutty (1)
  • Dodgion, Jerry (1)
  • Durham, Eddie, 1906-1987 (1)
  • Duvivier, George (1)
  • Estes, Gene (1)
  • Furrer, Georges (1)
  • Getz, Stan, 1927-1991 (1)
  • Green, Urbie (1)
  • Grimes, Tiny, 1916-1989 (1)
  • Grosz, Marty (1)
  • Haggart, Bob (1)
  • Hall, Herb, 1907-1996 (1)
  • Hamilton, Scott, 1954- (1)
  • Henry, Haywood (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • Krupa, Gene, 1909-1973 (1)
  • Lafitte, Guy (1)
  • Lamond, Don (1)
  • Lawrence, Doug (1)
  • Leeman, Cliff (1)
  • Lewis, Ed, 1909-1985 (1)
  • Mackrel, Dennis (1)
  • McKinley, Ray (1)
  • Miller, Eddie, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Newman, Joe (1)
  • Persiany, André (1)
  • Pierce, Nat (1)
  • Plinger, Elmer (1)
  • Pochonet, Gerard (1)
  • Polcer, Ed (1)
  • Reinhart, Randy (1)
  • Reuss, Allan (1)
  • Sandke, Randy (1)
  • Sasson, J. P. (1)
  • Schroeder, Gene (1)
  • Singer, Hal (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Temperley, Joe (1)
  • Tompkins, Ross (1)
  • Van Eps, George (1)
  • Varro, Johnny (1)
  • Villers, Michel de, 1926- (1)
  • Von Ohlen, John (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Wess, Frank, 1922-2013 (1)
  • West, Earl (1)
  • Wettling, George, 1907-1968 (1)
  • Wilder, Joe (1)
  • Williams, Jackie, 1933- (1)
  • Williams, Pinky (1)
  • Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986 (1)
  • (-) Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (25)

Events

  • Kool Jazz Festival (1984 : New York, N.Y.) (2)
  • Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival (1986) (1)

Date Published

  • 1967-06-03 (5)
  • 1981 (4)
  • 1990 (4)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1964 (2)
  • 1984-06-30 (2)
  • 1934 (1)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1959-08-29 (1)
  • 1966 (1)
  • 1966-02-07 (1)
  • 1967-05 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 1984-01 (1)
  • 1986 (1)

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