Black-and-white photograph of jazz musicians Bobby Bradford and Stanley Crouch performing at The Little Big Horn in Pasadena, California. Bradford is playing the trumpet and Crouch is playing the drums.
Black and white photograph of the Buster Cooper Sextet at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Cooper is playing trombone, and behind him is a drum set (the drummer is not visible) and an unidentified saxophonist.
Black and white photograph of the free-jazz Art Ensemble of Chicago. Pictured are guitarist John Ambercrombie, double bass player Eddie Gomez, trumpeter Lester Bowie, & drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Photograph shows Max Roach in a suit playing drums. The drum sticks show motion from the slow shutter speed in the dim light. The location was Howard Rumsey's club Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach, California.
Black and white photo of Benny Goodman and unidentified musicians playing at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, between 1979 (when the festival moved to Los Angeles from Chicago) and 1986.
Black and white photograph of Art Farmer on flügelhorn with Billy Higgins on drums. Taken May 5 1977 at Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California.