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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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Poster advertising concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on Monday, April 11, 1938, featuring Count Basie and His Orchestra along with Jimmy...

Date Published
April-11-1938
Member of
Brian Thurn 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

Count Basie with Harry Sweets Edison

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Count Basie and Harry "Sweets" Edison performing on stage at the Apollo Theater.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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

Postcard featuring Count Basie

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Count Basie postcard; Basie is photographed face on in a spotlight and he is casting a large shadow on the wall behind him.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984
  • 1931-1940

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (5)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (7)
  • posters (1)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Group portraits (5)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Concert posters (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Screen prints (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1931-1940 (8)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Pianists (5)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • African American band directors (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dance music (1)
  • Postcards (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Women singers (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 14th Street (1)
  • Central Street (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Belford, Joe (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (1)
  • Miranda, Carmen, 1909-1955 (1)
  • (-) Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (8)

Date Published

  • 1940 (3)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1936-12 (1)
  • 1938-04-11 (1)
  • 1939 (1)

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