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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

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard

Image

Bam Brown, Zutty Singleton, Oscar Levant, and Slim Gaillard standing shoulder to shoulder. All are wearing dark suits and smiling. Gaillard is holding...

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

Barney Bigard and musicians rehearsing

Image

Ed Garland playing bass, Barney Bigard playing clarinet, Dave Dexter looking down and smiling, Zutty Singleton (drummer) looking to the side and...

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

Barney Bigard and musicians rehearsing

Image

Ed Garland playing bass, Barney Bigard playing clarinet, Dave Dexter looking down and smiling, Zutty Singleton (drummer) standing and grinning, Norman...

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

Barney Bigard and musicians rehearsing

Image

Bud Scott playing guitar, Ed Garland playing bass, Shorty Haughton playing trombone, Barney Bigard playing clarinet, Fred Washington seated and...

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

Dave Dexter with Zutty Singleton

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Dave Dexter standing in the back corner of a studio talking with Zutty Singleton who is seated at a drum set. Six unidentifeid African American men...

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

Louis Armstrong with his audience

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Louis Armstrong smiling and interacting with his audience of mostly white children while holding his trumpet; performing with Zutty Singleton, Bobby...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Publicity still from "New Orleans"

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Publicity still from film "New Orleans" featuring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday (center) with Red Callender (bass), Zutty Singleton (drums)...

Date Published
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity still from "New Orleans"

Image

Publicity still from film "New Orleans" featuring Louis Armstrong (trumpet, looking down over piano), Zutty Singleton (drums), Red Callender (bass)...

Date Published
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Zutty Singleton

Image

Zutty Singleton looking up and smiling while playing drums. Singleton is holding a hi-hat with one hand and a drumstick with the other.

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

Zutty Singleton

Image

Zutty Singleton looking up and smiling while playing a drum. Singleton is sitting on a chair and holding drumsticks in both hands.

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

Zutty Singleton

Image

Zutty Singleton looking to the side with a surprised expression while playing drums. Singleton is holding drumsticks in both hands and is wearing a...

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

Zutty Singleton and Sugar Chile Robinson

Image

Zutty Singleton holding a snare drum and looking down at Sugar Chile Robinson while smiling. Robinson is touching the drum and looking up at Singleton...

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

Zutty Singleton sitting beside a drum set

Image

Zutty Singleton sitting beside a drum set.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American jazz musicians
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (12)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (14)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (14)
  • Gelatin silver prints (14)
  • Portrait photographs (12)
  • Snapshots (11)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Film stills (2)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (12)

Subjects

  • Drummers (Musicians) (5)
  • African American men (4)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (3)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Gifted children (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (14)

Subjects, People

  • Scott, Bud, 1890-1949 (5)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (3)
  • Bigard, Barney (3)
  • Bowden, Norman (3)
  • Dexter, Dave (3)
  • Garland, Ed (3)
  • Haughton, Shorty (3)
  • Washington, Freddie (3)
  • Brown, Bam (2)
  • Callender, Red (2)
  • Gaillard, Slim (2)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (1)
  • Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972 (1)
  • Ory, Kid, 1886-1973 (1)
  • Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (1)
  • Robinson, Sugar Chile, 1940- (1)
  • (-) Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (14)

Date Published

  • 1945 (10)
  • 1941 (6)
  • 1950 (6)
  • 1947 (2)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1940 (1)

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