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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

Ahmad Alaadeen and Julie Youmans

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen stands with Julie Youmans, author and photographer at an unidentified venue and event.

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Steve Irwin, Yoko Takemura and Jo Boehr stand arm-in-arm outdoors at night

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, Steve Irwin, Yoko Takemura, and Jo Boehr stand arm-in-arm and smile at the photographer outdoors at night.

Date Published
September-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Barney Moss and Buck Clayton in front of Connolly's Star Dust Room

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Barney Moss wearing a camera and holding a flash with Buck Clayton holding his trumpet standing outside of Connolly's Star Dust Room with Buck Clayton...

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

Buck Clayton and friends

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Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Nancy Miller Elliot and Freddie Green seated together in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
September-1979
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton listens to Frank Driggs explain

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Buck Clayton listens to Frank Driggs as an unidentified man also listens with tall buildings behind them.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton posing for a photo against a fence

Image

Buck Clayton, leaning on a fence in a three-piece plaid suit and a fedora hat, getting his photograph taken by an unidentified white man.

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

Charlie Gabriel grabs the hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams

Image

Charlie Gabriel holds his saxophone with his right hand as he grabs the right hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his left hand. Charlie turns his...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Cheathams, Dinky Morris, and others

Image

Jeannie Cheatham, seated in a yellow chair, with Jimmy Cheatham standing beside her and Dinky Morris and another unidentified man seated beside her...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Count Basie and Nancy Elliott

Image

Count Basie seated with a cigarette in front a dressing room mirror in which Nancy Elliott can also be seen taking the photo.

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Frank Driggs and Buck Clayton thinking it through

Image

Frank Driggs looking down as Buck Clayton looks over his left shoulder in front of speakers. Buck where a plaid fedora and a checked suit jacket with...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Jay McShann playing piano on stage

Image

Jay McShann on stage playing piano; facing the right of the photo; unidentified white man crouching down behind him, possibly a photographer.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann with Myra Taylor

Image

Jay McShann leaning in and sharing a laugh with Myra Taylor during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival Media Day; both seated with people seen...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jo Jones, Buck Clayton, Frank Driggs, and a friend in front of the stage

Image

An unidentified white man with his arm around the shoulder of Jo Jones standing next to Buck Clayton, wearing a plaid fedora, a necklace, a sweater...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Louis Armstrong and lilacs

Image

Louis Armstrong, wearing a white helmet of some sort and holding and armful of lilacs arrives in Sweden greeted by a military looking person and...

Date Published
June-10-1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Marcus, Claude, and Bill stand together for a photograph as others look on

Image

A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Milt Abel taking a photo

Image

Photo of Milt Abel from the side and slightly behind while taking a photo with the camera held up to his eye. The camera has a flash cube tower...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel taking a photo

Image

Milt Abel taking a photograph of an unknown subject. Unidentified white woman is in front of Abel and to the side looking at what Abel is...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Yoko Takemura and Ahmad Alaadeen stand arm-in-arm after an outdoor concert on the Country Club Plaza

Image

Yoko Takemura and Ahmad Alaadeen stand arm-in-arm smiling at the photographer as Chris Clarke and Tyrone Clark pack up instruments in the background...

Date Published
September-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American jazz musicians
  • Photographers

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (8)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (3)
  • Jay McShann Collection (3)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (2)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Group portraits (14)
  • Color photographs (10)
  • Black & white photographs (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (9)
  • Snapshots (6)
  • Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (2)
  • 1991-2000 (2)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (18)
  • African American men (13)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Double bassists (5)
  • Cameras (4)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Auditoriums (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Flowers (2)
  • Japanese American photographers (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Schools (2)
  • Women photographers (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Helmets (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Lilacs (1)
  • Male actors (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (19)
  • (-) Photographers (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  • Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (3)
  • Driggs, Frank (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (2)
  • Elliott, Nancy Miller (2)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (2)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (2)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (2)
  • Takemura, Yoko (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (1)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Janis, Conrad (1)
  • Morris, Dinky (1)
  • Moss, Bernie, 1908-1988 (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Youmans, Julie (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1976 (2)
  • 2001-04-08 (2)
  • 2003-09 (2)
  • 1964-06 (1)
  • 1965-06-10 (1)
  • 1979-09 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 1983-01 (1)
  • 1989-06 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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