Photos 1945-1947
Earl Hines Orchestra possibly December 1944/January 1945.
Left to right: Sonny Criss, Wardell Gray, and Tim Kennedy at Multnomah Falls, Oregon
From left: Irving Ashby (g); Charlie Drayton (b); Wardell Gray (ts); Benny Carter (as);
Irving Ashby, Peggy Lee, and Wardell Gray at
The famous Wardell Dexter “The Chase” publicity photo from the Summer of 1947.
Jam Session at the Last Word Club, 1947. From left to right:
Gray is on the far right wearing dark glasses.
From The World of Earl Hines by Stanley Dance.
(photo credit: Bernice Slaughter).
From Jumptown - The Golden Years of Portland Jazz, 1942-1957 by Robert Dietsche.
Oregon State University Press, 2005.
poss. Jackie Mills or Don Lamond (d); Howard McGhee (tp).
Gene Norman's Just Jazz Concert, Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, CA, April 29, 1947.
From: Black Beauty, White Heat 1920-1950 A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz by Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine.
William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1982.
Gene Norman's Just Jazz Concert, Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, CA, April 29, 1947.
Photo by Gene Lester.
From the cover of the Jazz Heritage Lp “The Chase and the Steeplechase”.
Sonny Criss (as); Clarence Jones (b); Wardell Gray (ts); Kenny Bright (tp).
From There And Back: The Roy Porter Story by Roy Porter and David Keller, Louisiana State University Press, 1991.