Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Description

The Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Clayton's wife, Patricia. The collection, which spans from 1928 to Clayton's death in 1991, contains material related to the jazz composer/arranger/trumpeter's personal and professional life.

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LaBudde Special Collections

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Count Basie performing

Count Basie seated at a piano. Likely Jo Jones on drum set behind Count Basie.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0015

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Emmet Berry and Ed Lewis performing with the Basie Band

Emmet Berry and Ed Lewis performing with Basie Band.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0015

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Buck Clayton playing his trumpet at 21 years of age

Buck Clayton on trumpet (inscribed to Simeon Clayton).

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0015

Buck Clayton Band at Pantages, Portland, Oregon, 1933

Buck Clayton, trumpet, bandleader, and his Harlem Gentlemen (Jack Bratton, trumpet; Happy Lewis, trombone; Herbert Myers, Couchy Roberts, Arcemia Taylor, saxophone; Joe McClutchen, violin; Frank Pastley, banjo; Reginald Jones, bass; Eddie Beal, piano; Baby Lewis, drums). At the Pantages Theatre, Portland, Oregon. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0015

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Buck Clayton portrait, 1933

Portrait of Buck Clayton.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0015