Library: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library / Collection: Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection / Genre: black-and-white photographs / Subject - Topics: African American musicians.

1.
Billy Talor with Tuff Green's Rocketeers

Creator:: Hooks Brothers.
Date:: 1993
Format:: Still image
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2.
Rock's Trio of Tuff Green's Rocketeers

Creator:: Hooks Brothers.
Date:: 1993
Format:: Still image
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3.
Charlie Persip playing a drum set in front of a stack of amplifiers

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1982
Format:: Still image
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4.
Melba Liston in performance at Sweet Basil, NYC, playing trombone

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1981
Format:: Still image
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5.
Hamiet Bluiett with saxophone

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1977
Format:: Still image
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6.
Headshot of Sun Ra in hat

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1977
Format:: Still image
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7.
Archie Shepp with saxophone

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1976
Format:: Still image
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8.
Don Moye with face painted and bells on neck

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1975
Format:: Still image
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9.
Lester Bowie with trumpet with the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1975
Format:: Still image
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10.
Malachi Favors with face painted

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1975
Format:: Still image
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11.
Portia Marshall Washington Pittman, daughter of Booker T. Washington, sitting by a bouquet of flowers

Date:: February 1975
Format:: Still image
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12.
Jack DeJohnette plays electric piano during a seminar

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1974
Format:: Still image
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13.
Frank Clayton playing double bass with Karl Berger

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1973
Format:: Still image
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14.
Grears Mid-Nite Ramblers in Oasis Ballroom, Michigan City, Indiana

Date:: July 1972
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

15.
Jimmy Heath and band performing, Oct. 29 1972

Date:: October 29, 1972
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

16.
Art Farmer playing a trumpet

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1971
Format:: Still image
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17.
Red Garland with sunglasses on

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1971
Format:: Still image
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18.
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
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19.
Jack De Johnette drums on stage for Miles Davis at Rutgers Jazz Festival, 1969

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1969
Format:: Still image
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20.
Little Sonny at Ugano's

Creator:: Wimberly.
Date:: August 1969
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

21.
An African American man wearing a suit coat playing the guitar

Creator:: LaVere, Steve.
Date:: 1968
Format:: Still image
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22.
James Moody with saxophone

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1968
Format:: Still image
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23.
Paul Chambers with double bass

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: June 5, 1966
Format:: Still image
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24.
Ray Charles, wearing sunglasses and singing into a microphone

Creator:: Ray, Bill.
Date:: May 7, 1966
Format:: Still image
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25.
Drummer Rashied Ali plays tenor sax in the study of Archie Shepp

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1965
Format:: Still image
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26.
Portrait of Marion Brown

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1965
Format:: Still image
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27.
Sunny Murray laughing

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1965
Format:: Still image
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28.
Lonnie Johnson playing guitar at Gerde's Folk City (New York, N.Y.)

Date:: March 5, 1964
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

29.
Portrait of Skip James, wearing a hat while holding a napkin in his hand

Creator:: Marshall, Jim, 1936-2010.
Date:: 1964
Format:: Still image
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30.
Album cover photo of Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell

Creator:: Rosenbaum, Art.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
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31.
Big Joe William : American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:: Wolf, Heinz.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

32.
Guitar Pete Franklin : African American blues musician

Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

33.
Lonnie Johnson : American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:: Wolf, Heinz.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

34.
Lonnie Johnson : American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:: Wolf, Heinz.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

35.
Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:: Wolf, Heinz.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

36.
Willie Dixon : American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:: Wolf, Heinz.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

37.
Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:: Wolf, Heinz.
Date:: 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

38.
African American musicians holding musical instruments next to circus tents

Date:: October 1962
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

39.
Jimmy Reed with guitar on stage with masked sitting people

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1961
Format:: Still image
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40.
Sidney Maiden : African American blues musician

Date:: 1961
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

41.
African American blues musicians, clockwise from upper left: Fred McDowell, Yank Rachell, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis, and Nathan Beauregard

Date:: 1960s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

42.
Earl T. Roach, New Orleans and Broadway star

Date:: June 10, 1960
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

43.
John Coltrane in Europe, 1960s

Date:: 1960s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

44.
Portrait of Lightnin' Hopkins, singing and playing a guitar

Creator:: LaVere, Stephen C.
Date:: 1960
Format:: Still image
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45.
Randy Weston with sunglasses and sheet music

Creator:: Ross, Raymond.
Date:: 1960
Format:: Still image
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46.
African American man playing guitar, with other men singing into microphones

Date:: September 1958
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

47.
Big Bill Broonzy singing while playing a guitar

Creator:: Gahr, David.
Date:: 1958
Format:: Still image
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48.
Portrait of James Brown

Date:: 1958
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

49.
Portrait of Little Junior Parker

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1958
Format:: Still image
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50.
Big Maybelle on stage behind a microphone with Johnny Otis Orchestra

Date:: February 24, 1956
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

51.
John Coltrane playing saxophone with Miles Davis and band in Germany in 1956

Date:: 1956
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

52.
Johnnie Guitar Watson with Johnny Otis Band performing in Los Angeles, Feb. 24, 1956

Date:: February 24, 1956
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

53.
Miles Davis playing trumpet with John Coltrane and band in Germany, 1956

Date:: 1956
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

54.
An African American man playing the guitar

Date:: 1955
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

55.
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins

Date:: 1955
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

56.
Mugshot of Bukka White at the Shelby County Penal Farm

Creator:: LaVere, Stephen C.
Date:: 1952
Format:: Still image
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57.
Lionel Hampton and orchestra : Groove for G.I.'s in Philadelphia, Pa.

Date:: May 26, 1951
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

58.
African American singers and musicians performing at concert in Saint Augustine (Fla.)

Date:: 1950
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

59.
B.B. King with Billy Harvey's band at Club Handy

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
Format:: Still image
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60.
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
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61.
Clarence Gatemouth Brown with guitar

Date:: 1950s
Format:: Still image
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62.
Ike Turner and his band [Kings of Rhythm] : Memphis (Tenn.)

Creator:: George Burns Studio
Date:: 1950 approx.
Format:: Still image
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63.
Roscoe Gordon with rooster on shoulder grabbing record from Sam Phillips

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
Format:: Still image
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64.
Johnnie Hughes Combo : Philadelphia Pa.

Creator:: Photo Art Studios.
Date:: October 29, 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

65.
Portrait of Brother Bones, holding bones between his fingers

Date:: April 6, 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

66.
Ruth Brown, and her band performing on stage at Powello's Cafe

Date:: October 16, 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

67.
Swan Silas Bass Singers in Knoxville, Tenn, 22 May 1949

Date:: May 22, 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

68.
Jimmy Walker [Homesick James] and B. Watson : musicians, Chicago, 1948

Date:: 1948
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

69.
Portrait of Roy Brown, African American musician

Creator:: Kriegsmann, James J.
Date:: December 1, 1948
Format:: Still image
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70.
The Toppers at Philadelphia Theater

Date:: November 20, 1948
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

71.
Billie Holiday wearing a dress and necklace seated next to Louis Armstrong wearing a suit standing and playing a trumpet

Date:: 1947
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

72.
Signed picture of T-Bone Walker to Lucius Long

Creator:: Adair.
Date:: April 15, 1946
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

73.
Fats Waller on piano with cigarette

Date:: April 10, 1945
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

74.
Man playing a vibraphone, with other men holding different instruments watching him

Creator:: Mosely , John W.
Date:: October 20, 1945
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

75.
J.D. King and Jimmy Forester playing saxophone with the Andy Kirk Orchestra

Date:: between 1944 and 1945
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

76.
Signed picture of Sammy Price

Creator:: Progress.
Date:: January 13, 1943
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

77.
Earl Hines and Billie Eckstine playing and singing in a band on stage

Creator:: Rossner, Harry.
Date:: May 31, 1941
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

78.
Kenny Sticks McVey and his orchestra on stage in Casa Manana, Texas

Date:: 1941
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

79.
Lead Belly, shown from the back, playing for an audience

Creator:: Knopf, Hans.
Date:: 1941
Format:: Still image
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80.
Eddie Boyd at piano

Creator:: Moss Photo.
Date:: 1940s
Format:: Still image
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81.
Jimmie Lunceford and band, singing into a microphone

Date:: June 1940
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

82.
Josh White, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie performing at Cafe_ Society in New York City

Creator:: Delta Haze Coporation.
Date:: 1940s
Format:: Still image
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83.
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
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84.
Little Bill Gaither, Memphis Slim and Big Bill Broonzy in photography studio, Chicago (Ill.)

Creator:: Studio Portrait
Date:: February 1940 approx.
Format:: Still image
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85.
Louis Barre Band, including Lester Young on tenor saxophone, recording in the Columbia Records Studio

Date:: 1940
Format:: Still image
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86.
Picture of Billie Holiday in a dress with Jimmy Powell holding an alto saxophone, Roy Eldridge playing a trumpet, Sonny White playing the piano and John Williams with all the men wearing suits and three of them wearing hats

Date:: 1940
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

87.
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
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88.
Vocalion recording session with Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Billie Holliday singing, Jimmy Powell and Carl Frye on alto sax, Kermit Scott on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Williams on bass and Doc West on drums

Date:: February 29, 1940
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

89.
Musicians gathered around a piano in the Little Rathskeller club

Creator:: Strouse, Stanley.
Date:: June 8, 1939
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

90.
Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer

Date:: December 2, 1939
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

91.
Clyde Bernhardt, pseudonym Ed Barron, with trombone

Creator:: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983.
Date:: 1937
Format:: Still image
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92.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:: April 19, 1937
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

93.
An autographed picture of the Four Ink-Spots musical group performing on 5/18/35

Date:: May 18, 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

94.
Jimmy Claybrooks & his Rythm Aces, posing with their instruments, in Laurella Studio, De Soto, Mo.

Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

95.
Les Hite's Orchestra : autographed photo from Marvin to Jim

Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

96.
Portrait of Louis Armstrong in a suit playing a trumpet

Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
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97.
Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) and Leroy Carr : Chicago (Ill.)

Creator:: Driggs, Frank.
Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

98.
Elijah Shaw with marimba

Creator:: Harrison's Studio.
Date:: 1933
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

99.
Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932

Creator:: Jones-Purdyes Photographers.
Date:: 1932
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

100.
Charles Anderson : trumpet player on rooftop

Date:: 1932
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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