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"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

"Stuff" Smith

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Publicity photo of "Stuff" Smith holding a violin under one arm and looking forward while smiling. Smith is wearing a black tuxedo and bowtie.

Date Published
1935
1940
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

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

1988 Playboy Jazz Festival Line-Up

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Publicity photo featuring the 1988 Playboy Jazz Festival line-up: Ray Charles, Jay Beckenstein, Timeless All-Stars, Jon Faddis, Jeannie and Jimmy...

Date Published
June-19-1988
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham 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

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

375th Army Service Forces Band

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The 375th Army Service Forces Band (Buck Clayton, seated, far right) posing with all their instruments in New York.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. 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

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

Adolph Roulette and Ahmad Alaadeen

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Adolph Roulette, wearing a fedora, and Ahmad Alaadeen stand outside Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

African-American band members looking at sheet music

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An unidentified band of African American Musicians, possibly the "Sensationals," gathered among their instruments, looking at the sheet music for "Are...

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

After hours session

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Publicity photo of Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman on clarinet) with Gene Krupa (drums), Buck Clayton (trumpet), George Duvivier (bass), Teddy Wilson...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a fedora, stands with his left side to a wall and smiles at the photographer as he holds a saxophone sideways down by his...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a fedora, stands with his left side to a wall as he holds a saxophone sideways down by his right leg,

Date Published
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen

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Close-up of Ahmad Alaadeen's face as he blows into a soprano saxophone.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the 2000 Governor's Humanities Award

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Ahmad Alaadeen smiles as he holds a microphone and award certificate in hands, standing in front of a table of panelists. This was a combined event...

Date Published
November-07-2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the 2000 Governor's Humanities Award

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Ahmad Alaadeen receiving a framed proclamation award from an unidentified white woman. This was a combined event for the Tradin' 4s (Series Four)...

Date Published
November-07-2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the Community Heritage Award

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The photographer caught Ahmad Alaadeen with his eyes closed as he is smiling and holding a microphone in his right hand and the 2000 Community...

Date Published
October-12-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the Community Heritage Award

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Ahmad Alaadeen smiling and holding a microphone in his right hand and the 2000 Community Heritage Award in a folder in his left hand as he accepts the...

Date Published
October-12-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen among a group of UMKC Jazz Studies students

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat and holding a tenor saxophone, (third from right), stands with UMKC jazz studies teacher Michael Parkinson (far...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and a band get ready to perform during an event sponsored by the Missouri African American Cultural Initiative

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Everette Freeman (piano), Tyrone Clark (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a kufi hat, and Danny Campbell helping organize charts at Ahmad's...

Date Published
May-25-1997
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

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