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
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1446.png
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
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1447.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Kenny Kersey and Buck Clayton hanging out with the combo

Buck Clayton lighting a cigarette and smiling; Kenny Kersey on piano with an unidentified group of musicians (African American and white).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1448.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins talking in the green room

Roy Eldridge speaking with Coleman Hawkins in the green room; New York.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1399.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart in the green room

Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart; New York.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1400.png
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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Club Downbeat

Club Downbeat marquee at night advertising a performance of Dizzy Gillespie and a poster advertising a performance of the Barbara Carroll Trio.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0655.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Outside of Club Downbeat

Club Downbeat marquee at night advertising a performance of Dizzy Gillespie.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0656.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Portrait of Pat Clayton

Portrait of Pat Clayton in silk shirt.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0065.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Portrait of Buck and Pat Clayton

Portrait of Buck and Pat Clayton.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0066.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Roy Eldridge and others

Roy Eldridge, Jonah Jones, Rex Stewart and Trummy Young performing on stage in New York.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0585.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Trummy Young, Illinois Jacquet and others

Shot from behind of Trummy Young, trombone, Kenny Kersey, Buck Clayton, Illinois Jacquet and others on stage in New York.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0586.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Helen Humes sings

Shot from off stage of Helen Humes singing with Trummy Young, trombone, Buck Clayton, trumpet and unidentified bassist in New York.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0587.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Illinois Jacquet

Illinois Jacquet on stage playing saxophone with unidentified bassist and pianist seen.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0588.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Coleman Hawkins playing saxophone

Coleman Hawkins on stage playing saxophone with Roy Eldridge, trumpet and unidentified bassist and pianist in New York.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0589.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015