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Babs Gonzales

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Photo of Babs Gonzales taken from the cover art on his 1967 album "I paid my dues"; set a against a blue background he's resting his chin on a hand...

Date Published
1967
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Babs Gonzales

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Babs Gonzales with a cigarette looking to the left of the photo.

Date Published
1960
1969
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Baby Lee at the Grand Emporium

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Baby Lee, from the left, sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand and points with her left hand at Divas Night Out at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
January-08-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Band listens to Bobby Watson and Tyrone Clark play

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The band watches Bobby Watson play an alto saxophone in a tent with open sides. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool in the left foreground...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Benny Goodman and his orchestra with Helen Ward Featured Vocalist

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Publicity photo of Helen Ward and Benny Goodman facing forward and smiling. Ward is wearing a satin dress and leaning against Goodman who is wearing a...

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

Benny Strong

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Publicity photo of Benny Strong looking to the side with a neutral expression. Strong is wearing a pinstripe suit and checkered tie.

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

Bettye Jo Miller at the Phoenix

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Bettye Jo Miller, wearing an animal print dress, laughs and claps her hands from behind a microphone at the piano at the Phoenix.

Date Published
March-07-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

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Bettye Miller singing while playing the piano during her birthday party. An unidentified man is seated behind her.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

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Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Big Joe Turner performing

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Big Joe Turner performing at a show. He is playing piano while looking up toward a microphone. He is wearing a suit and closing his eyes while smiling...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Billie Holiday

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Signed portrait of Billie Holiday.

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

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

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Billie Holiday straightening a tie for Louis Armstrong in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is holding a trumpet in his...

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

Billy Eckstein at the Apollo

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Billy Eckstine on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

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

Billy Eckstein on stage

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Billy Eckstine singing into a microphone at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

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

Billy Eckstine with an unidentified woman

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Billy Eckstine standing at the door of a car with an unidentified woman. They are on a street in front of a chain link fence. Eckstine is smiling and...

Date Published
August-1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Billy Eckstine with an unidentified woman and Billie G. Moore, Jr.

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Billy Eckstine standing with an unidentified woman and Billie G. Moore, Jr., in front of a car. They are on a street in front of a chain link fence...

Date Published
August-1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore

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Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore speaking to an unidentified man in military uniform. Crosby and Shore are both holding papers in their hands and smiling...

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

Blaze at the Grand Emporium

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Blaze, makes fists, purses her lips and dances during the KC Blues and Jazz After Fest Jam at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
July-23-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bob Eberly and Dave Dexter

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Bob Eberly [née Bob Eberle], an unidentified man, and Dave Dexter seated at a table, looking down over music.

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

Bob Eberly featured with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra

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Publicity photo of Bob Eberly [née Bob Eberle] leaning forward and looking to the side. Eberly is wearing a suit with black tie and white handkerchief...

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

Bob Eberly with Pat Dexter and two others

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Bob Eberly leaning over Pat Dexter, sitting in the center with two unidentified white women at a restaurant dining table. The woman on the left is...

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

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

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Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell standing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. Dexter is holding a record with the Capitol label and O...

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

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

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Dave Dexter, Bob Eberly, and Helen O'Connell standing behind a microphone. Dexter is handing a record to an unidentified white man on the side. All...

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

Bram Wijnand singing while playing piano at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Bram Wijnand singing while playing piano at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. He is looking down at the keyboard. Various...

Date Published
March-1993
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Bryan Hicks and Brian Morahan at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Bryan Hicks and Brian Morahan at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Morahan is playing drums. Hicks is singing into a...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

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