Africans

Buck Clayton with two unidentified African women, one with a veil; possibly in Conakry, Guinea.

Four Stars of Zaire, a band comprised of four men from Zaire, who stand together indoors in front of a doorway and smile at the camera.

Four Stars of Zaire, a band comprised of four men from Zaire, who stand together and smile at the camera.

Bull Moose Jackson with Jackie Williams, John Phillips and an unidentified group of two women and two men, one of the women veiled; possibly in...

A guitarist with Four Stars of Zaire wearing traditional clothing, smiles as he plays a guitar.

Mongoose, a band of six Black, possibly African, men stand outside on stairs, one band member of each step, in front of palm trees. They wear...

Mongoose, a band of six Black, possibly African, men stand outside among palm trees wearing traditional clothing.

Guinean guitarist Ousmane Kouyate sits and holds an electric guitar between his legs as he looks off into the distance. He wears a floral print vest...

Soukous Stars, a soukous band of five men, stand each with one foot on a white foot stool and their other hand in a pocket of their mostly leather...

A seated, mixed gender audience, white and black, probably in Khartoum, Sudan.

Tarika, a band from Madagascar, stand together holding their instruments and smiling at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Virunga, an African orchestra of seven men, stand or sit arm-in-arm holding their instruments and laughing as they wear their performance costumes...