Photos 1948-1949
From left: Benny Goodman (cl); Ray Brown (b); Wardell Gray (ts); Chuck Wayne (el-g); Stan Hasselgard (cl).
From left: Mel Zelnick (d) Billy Bauer (g), Wardell Gray (ts), and Benny Goodman (cl)
From left: Benny Goodman (cl); Billy Bauer (g); Wardell Gray (ts).
From left: Mary Lou Williams (p); Clyde Lombardi (b); Benny Goodman (cl); Billy Bauer (el-g); Clyde Lombardi (b); Wardell Gray (ts).
Wardell Gray and Åke "Stan" Hasselgård in 1948
Wardell Gray (ts), Fats Navarro (tr) and Allen Eager (ts) during Blue
Wardell Gray reviews score as Fats Navarro looks on during Blue
Wardell blows with the Count Basie band at the Royal Roost, September 29, 1948.
"Bop Goes to the Stork Club", January 7, 1949.
"Bop Goes to the Stork Club", January 7, 1949.
This is Benny's bop Septet as it appeared at the Hollywood Palladium in early 1949. From left:
Benny Goodman and Wardell Gray, 1949.
in summer, 1948 at the Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY.
[Photo credit: Popsie Randolph.]
Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY, poss. July 2, 1948.
[Photo credit: Popsie Randolph.]
Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY, poss. July 2, 1948.
[Photo credit: Popsie Randolph.]
Note recording session in New York City on September 13, 1948.
[Photo credit: Francis Wolff]
Note recording session in New York City on September 13, 1948.
[Photo credit: Francis Wolff; Mosaic Images LLC]
From left: Rossiere “Shadow” Wilson (d); Bill Johnson (tb); Emmett Berry (tp); Paul Gonsalves (ts); Clark Terry (tp); Ted Donnelly, Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp); Earl Warren (as); George Matthews, Dickie Wells (tb); Bernard “Bernie”/“Burnie” Peacock (as); Ronald “Jack” Washington (bar); Wardell Gray (ts).
[Photo credit: Popsie Randolph.]
From left: Francis Beecher (g), Clyde Lombardi (b), Wardell Gray (ts),
Sonny Igoe (d) and Benny Goodman (cl).
[Photo credit: Popsie Randolph.]
From left: Wardell Gray (ts), Sonny Igoe (d) and Benny Goodman (cl).
[Photo credit: Popsie Randolph.]
Wardell Gray (rear), Buddy Greco, Francis Beecher, Benny Goodman, Doug Mettome, Clyde
Lombardi, Sonny Igoe. [Photo credit: Otto Rothschild.]
