Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums as he wears sunglasses. In front of Bill and to his left is a seated unidentified sax player blowing into his alto saxophone. To his left in the center of the stage is an unidentified bass player with his head slightly bent forward but his eyes looking up straight at the photographer. Behind the bass player and to his left is William Fisher playing the piano and looking out between the piano and the lifted lid. In front of William Fisher and slightly to his left is an unidentified seated trumpet player blowing into his horn. Around the edge of the stage is a scalloped stage decoration of two horse heads facing each other with a jockey's cap in between them. On the door to the back right there is a "J" over a "C" logo on the window to indicated the Jockey Club.

Member of

Dolores Hobley Collection

Language English

Date Published

1951

1960

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Subject, Old

African American jazz musicians

Jazz musicians

Drummers (Musicians)

Saxophonists

Double bassists

Pianists

Trumpet players

Bars (Drinking establishments)

African American men

Image Credit

James B. Gantt

Time Period

1951-1960

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City (Mo.)

Subject (Geographic, LCSH)

Kansas City (Mo.)

Notes

No date; likely circa 1930, Purchased from Dolores Hobley, c. early 2010s. Stamped on back, "JAMES B. GANTT. VA. 2739. 500 W. 34th St. Kansas City 2, Mo.", Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original

1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm

Filename

umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-011.tif

Genres

Gelatin silver prints

Black & white photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs