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Buck Clayton and company

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Count Basie standing with Dicky Wells, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Freddie Green and Earle Warren in Harlem, New York.

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Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Freddie Green

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Freddie Green, with drink and cigarette in hand, speaking with Buck Clayton in Harlem, New York.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Humphrey Lyttelton

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Humphrey Lyttelton standing with Buck Clayton just outside of a door in Southampton, England.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Patricia Hinton plugging their ears as Allan McMillan plays trumpet

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Buck Clayton and Patricia Hinton plugging their ears as Allan McMillan plays trumpet.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Ruby Braff on stage

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Buck Clayton and (likely) Ruby Braff both playing trumpet on stage; a hand and part of a trombone (likely Benny Morton) can be seen in front of them...

Date Published
July-01-1954
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Bud Johnson and others

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet with Budd Johnson, saxophone and unidentified white musicians in a band.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, George Avakian, Sammy Kaye and others judge a performance

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Buck Clayton seated on a judging panel with George Avakian, Sammy Kaye and an unidentified man with a crowd behind them.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck playing trumpet

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet next to an unidentified drummer who's face is covered at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Coleman Hawkins and Buck Clayton performing at the Newport Jazz Festival

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Coleman Hawkins, playing his saxophone with smiling eyes toward the trombonist next to him (only the trombone is visible) and Buck Clayton playing his...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo postcard of Buck

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Photo postcard of Buck Clayton playing trumpet.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Willie "the Lion" Smith and Buck Clayton wait for the crowd at Newport Jazz Festival

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Willie "Lion" Smith seated with Buck Clayton and an unidentified man in the seats at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

With Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey

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Benny Goodman performing with Tommy Dorsey, Buck Clayton and Budd Johnson and others at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991
  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (12)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (12)
  • Gelatin silver prints (12)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1951-1960 (12)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (12)
  • Jazz musicians (12)
  • Trumpet players (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Music journalists (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)

Subjects, People

  • Avakian, George (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Braff, Ruby, 1927-2003 (1)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Greene, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (1)
  • Hinton, Patricia (1)
  • Johnson, Budd (1)
  • Johnson, Buddy, 1915-1977 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kaye, Sammy, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Lyttelton, Humphrey, 1921-2008 (1)
  • McMillan, Allan W., 1900-1991 (1)
  • Morton, Benny (1)
  • Smith, Willie, 1897-1973 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (1)
  • (-) Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (12)

Events

  • Newport Jazz Festival (1956) (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (1)
  • 1954-07-01 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1964 (1)

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