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"'Tiny Hill' America's Biggest Band Leader"

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Publicity photo of Tiny Hill leaning forward and looking up to the side while smiling. Hill is wearing a light colored jacket and tie. A caption reads...

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

"Butch" Stone, Saxophonist with Les Brown and his Orchestra

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Headshot of "Butch" Stone looking up and to the side while smiling. Stone is wearing a black tuxedo and bowtie.

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

"Great Day in Harlem"

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"A Great Day in Harlem": Art Kane portrait of fifty-seven jazz musicians in Harlem; Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1958
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

"Joe Liggins Leader of the Famous Honeydrippers"

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Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.

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

"Ordonians" dance band

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"Ordonians" dance band on stage during a performance at an officer's club in India. Musicians shown include Frank Oakley sitting at the piano, Jimmy...

Date Published
January-1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Pee Wee" Hunt

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Illustration of "Pee Wee" Hunt featuring his head and upper chest. Hunt is looking forward and smiling, wearing a tuxedo and white bowtie.

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Pee Wee" Hunt and Kenny Sargent

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Casa Loma Orchestra band leaders "Pee Wee" Hunt and Kenny Sargent wearing dark suits and smiling. Hunt is standing on the left wearing glasses and...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Pee Wee" Hunt Casa Loma Orchestra

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Publicity photo for "Pee Wee" Hunt and the Casa Loma Orchestra featuring a headshot of Hunt looking forward and smiling. Hunt is wearing a pinstripe...

Date Published
1935
1936
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Ship Ahoy" A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

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Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, Red Skelton, and Eleanor Powell posed in a publicity shot for the film "Ship Ahoy." Dorsey is playing trombone while Rich...

Date Published
1942
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"We Haz Jazz" at Briarwood Elementary School with Ahmad Alaadeen

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Ahmad Alaadeen plays a soprano saxophone and stands in the middle a group of third-graders and their teacher holding instruments during their stage...

Date Published
February-09-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

"Wingy" Manone

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"Wingy" Manone standing behind a table with radio equipment holding one hand to his ear while looking forward. Manone is wearing a trench coat and...

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

"Wingy" Manone

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"Wingy" Manone holding music in front of a microphone and smiling. Manone is wearing a dark suit and patterned tie.

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

"Wingy" Manone

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"Wingy" Manone singing into an overhead microphone while holding a trumpet in a studio. An unidentified clarinet player is in the background.

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

"Wingy" Manone and Jack Teagarden

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"Wingy" Manone playing trumpet and Jack Teagarden playing trombone on the roof of the Hotel Paso del Norte in El Paso, Texas.

Date Published
1927
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Wingy" Manone and Nappy Lamare

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Nappy Lamare playing guitar and "Wingy" Manone playing trumpet in a studio with microphones in the background and foreground. Lamare is looking back...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Wingy" Manone playing trumpet

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"Wingy" Manone playing trumpet before an audience. Manone is standing on the stage in front of a chair and music stand, wearing a dark suit.

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

"Wingy" Manone's Band

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A group photo of "Wingy" Manone's Band in a recording studio. Seated (left to right) are Nappy Lamare, "Wingy" Manone, and Matty Matlock. Standing...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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

21-sax salute at Charlie Parker's graveside

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Eddie Saunders, wearing a bucket hat, Horace Washington, Gerald Dunn, and Ahmad Alaadeen during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

21-sax salute at Charlie Parker's graveside

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Luqman Hamza (mostly out of frame), Emanuel Cleaver (mostly out of frame), Robert Rashad, wearing a flat cap, Eddie Saunders, wearing a bucket hat...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

21-sax salute at Charlie Parker's graveside

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Luqman Hamza, Emanuel Cleaver, Robert Rashad, wearing a flat cap, Eddie Saunders, wearing a bucket hat, Horace Washington, an unidentified woman...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

A visit with Angela Lascelles, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Freeman, Buck Clayton and Gerald Lascelles

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Dizzy Gillespie seated with Bud Freeman, Buck Clayton, Gérard Lascelles and the back of Angela Lascelles; Paris, France.

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

Abe Lyman

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Headshot of Abe Lyman looking to the side and smiling. Lyman is wearing a white suit jacket and tie.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Actor Conrad Janis speaking

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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

Adam Page and Duck Warner at the Gem Theater

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Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party...

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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