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 holding his trumpet

Buck Clayton holding a trumpet.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1386.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Ben Carter

Signed portrait of actor Ben Carter.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0708.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton with ensemble on stage

Trummy Young[?], Sidney Bechet, Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells[?], Benny Morton, George Wettling, Pops Foster, Joe Marsala, Max Kaminsky and an unidentified group of musicians performing on stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0522.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Freddie Green

Close up photograph of Freddie Green with head stock of guitar covering part of his face.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1529.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Jazz saxophonist, possibly Coleman Hawkins

A close up photograph of possibly Coleman Hawkins, eyes closed, blowing into the saxophone, only reed and neck of saxophone shown.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1531.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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375th Army Service Forces band

Group portrait of the 375th Army Service Band; Camp Shanks, New York. Band personnel (H. Jackson, percussionist; T. Waters, L. Faulk, D. Taylor, A. Lanier, clarinets; Lt. Col. Hanson, C.W.O. J.J. Stanbrough, conductor; C. Bottoms, G. Mars, R. Williams, A. Blair, W. Clayton, trumpets; C. Atkinson, drum major; C. Fugua, drums; F. Williams, clarinet; I. Brown, H. Alieyne, F. Scott, B. Crawford, Lorenza Smith, saxophones; M. Ellington, C. Stokes, baritone; C. Albright, French horn, M. Oliver, W. Starks, drums; L. Carrington, tuba, A. Wallace, euphonium; B. Alston, M. Larkin, D. Minor, trombone; W. Ruffin, euphonium; E. Smith, tuba.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1533.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015