Jazz musicians Erskine Hawkins, Joe Morris, and Lionel Hampton backstage at the Orpheum, Los Angeles, 1940s

Title: Jazz musicians Erskine Hawkins, Joe Morris, and Lionel Hampton backstage at the Orpheum, Los Angeles, 1940s
Date Created: [1940s?]
Date: 1940/1949
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Summary: Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.
Joe Morris was an American rhythm and blues trumpeter, writer, arranger and bandleader. He managed, at various times, the Congo Club and Club Alabam.
Erskine Hawkins was an American bandleader and trumpet player.
Description: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
L to R: Hawkins, Morris, Hampton.

Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Names: Hawkins, Erskine, 1914-1993
Morris, Joseph Lee, 1922-1958
Hampton, Lionel
Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 34.0426662
Latitude: -118.255703
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: YRLSC_gordonphotos_0140
Collection 1867 Box 1 Folder 5
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ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025p5qd
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