1. Charlie Persip playing a drum set in front of a stack of amplifiers Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1982 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
2. Melba Liston in performance at Sweet Basil, NYC, playing trombone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1981 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
3. Hamiet Bluiett with saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1977 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
4. Headshot of Sun Ra in hat Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1977 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
5. Archie Shepp with saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1976 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
6. Don Moye with face painted and bells on neck Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
7. Lester Bowie with trumpet with the Art Ensemble of Chicago Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
8. Malachi Favors with face painted Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
9. Jack DeJohnette plays electric piano during a seminar Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1974 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
10. Frank Clayton playing double bass with Karl Berger Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
11. Art Farmer playing a trumpet Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
12. Red Garland with sunglasses on Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
13. Victoria Spivey wearing a sweater seated at a piano with a microphone next to her and a guitar laying on top of the piano Creator: Sh. Date: April 9, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
14. Jack De Johnette drums on stage for Miles Davis at Rutgers Jazz Festival, 1969 Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1969 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
15. An African American man wearing a suit coat playing the guitar Creator: LaVere, Steve. Date: 1968 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
16. James Moody with saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1968 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
17. Paul Chambers with double bass Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: June 5, 1966 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
18. Ray Charles, wearing sunglasses and singing into a microphone Creator: Ray, Bill. Date: May 7, 1966 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
19. Drummer Rashied Ali plays tenor sax in the study of Archie Shepp Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1965 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
20. Portrait of Marion Brown Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1965 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
21. Sunny Murray laughing Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1965 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
22. Portrait of Skip James, wearing a hat while holding a napkin in his hand Creator: Marshall, Jim, 1936-2010. Date: 1964 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
23. Album cover photo of Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell Creator: Rosenbaum, Art. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
24. Jimmy Reed with guitar on stage with masked sitting people Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007. Date: 1961 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
25. Portrait of Lightnin' Hopkins, singing and playing a guitar Creator: LaVere, Stephen C. Date: 1960 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
26. Randy Weston with sunglasses and sheet music Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1960 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
27. Big Bill Broonzy singing while playing a guitar Creator: Gahr, David. Date: 1958 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
28. Portrait of Little Junior Parker Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007. Date: 1958 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
29. Mugshot of Bukka White at the Shelby County Penal Farm Creator: LaVere, Stephen C. Date: 1952 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
30. B.B. King with Billy Harvey's band at Club Handy Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007. Date: 1950s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
31. Beale Streeters : Earl Forest, Billy Duncan, Bobby Bland and Johnny Ace at WDIA Studios, Memphis, early 1950's Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007. Date: 1950s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
33. Ike Turner and his band [Kings of Rhythm] : Memphis (Tenn.) Creator: George Burns Studio Date: 1950 approx. Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
34. Roscoe Gordon with rooster on shoulder grabbing record from Sam Phillips Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007. Date: 1950s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
35. Portrait of Roy Brown, African American musician Creator: Kriegsmann, James J. Date: December 1, 1948 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
36. Lead Belly, shown from the back, playing for an audience Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
38. Josh White, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie performing at Cafe_ Society in New York City Creator: Delta Haze Coporation. Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
39. King Biscuit Time : KFFA, Helena, Arkansas, early 1940's, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Anderson & Robert Jr. Lockwood Creator: Gladin, Ivey. Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
40. Little Bill Gaither, Memphis Slim and Big Bill Broonzy in photography studio, Chicago (Ill.) Creator: Studio Portrait Date: February 1940 approx. Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
41. Louis Barre Band, including Lester Young on tenor saxophone, recording in the Columbia Records Studio Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
42. Picture of Billie Holiday wearing a dress seated on a chair with Sonny White, Lawrence Lucie, John Williams, Kermit Scott, Jimmy Powell, Harold Doc West dressed in suits and hats standing around her Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
43. Clyde Bernhardt, pseudonym Ed Barron, with trombone Creator: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983. Date: 1937 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
44. Portrait of Louis Armstrong in a suit playing a trumpet Date: 1935 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
45. King Oliver & his Harlem Syncopators Creator: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983. Date: March 1931 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
46. Signed picture of Don Redman conducting for Alice Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
47. Signed picture of Layton and Johnstone Creator: Georges, S. Date: April 1930 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
49. An African American man with a hat standing holding drumsticks with his left arm raised with a drum set behind him, two microphones to his right and the neck of a guitar showing on his left Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
50. African American men singing into microphones, one playing a guitar Creator: Flerlage, Raeburn. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required