Artist Publicity Photos

Title: Artist Publicity Photos

Abstract: Promotional material was selected for this project from a collection that not only documents the career of this jazz authority and media personality, but also serves as a rich source for the study of broadcast radio and "jazz" in Washington, D.C., during Grant's 48-year career (1945-1993).

: Group portrait of Mary Lou Williams, Pha Terrell and Andy Kirk and his orchestra; Andy Kirk conducts his orchestra. Letterpress text beneath image: "MARY LOU WILLIAMS and PHA TERRELL / featured with / ANDY KIRK and His Orchestra - Direction / JOE GLASER / R. C. A. Building 30 Rockefeller Plaza / New York, N. Y." Inscribed in image: "GORDON / CONNER / [?----]LAND", Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-09T17:40:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 b01f108-001display.jpg: 11358 bytes, checksum: 418f37919f16dbd0a082d211d67b6476 (MD5) b01f108-001master.tif: 23022796 bytes, checksum: 2115b8c8a57e072ea7c63849d429100b (MD5) b01f108-001thumb.jpg: 10930 bytes, checksum: 74d534d221bda958569082b388cbcded (MD5) manifest.xml: 5363 bytes, checksum: f06edb7056f50c2e8288a4ee25119fd1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-10-01, First row: band leader Andy Kirk, pianist Mary Lou Williams and vocalist Pha Terrell in front of microphone labeled "NBC". Second Row L to R: Ted Brinson, guitar; Booker Collins [?], bass; Ben Thigpen [?] (Ed Thigpen's father), drums; Theodore Donnelly [?], trombone; Dick Wilson, alto saxophone; John Williams, alto saxophone; John Harrington, saxophone; unidentified baritone saxophone player. Trumpets L to R: Earl Thompson, Paul King, Harry 'Big Jim' Lawson.