Warren Durrett Collection

Description
Durrett was a big band leader, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Kansas City. Collection contains a series of musician headshots, musicians performing (including Durrett's orchestra), and personal photographs.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Type: Image
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Type: Image
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Type: Image
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing at the Carriage Club

Warren Durrett standing in front of a piano to the left of his orchestra in a suit and bowtie, with an unidentified white woman singer in front of the band at a microphone. The band members (white men) are in red suit jackets and black pants and bowties, organized in three rows behind stands, with the last row standing. Back row: five trumpets with mutes. Middle row: drums, four trombones. Front row: Three saxophones (second obscured by singer), clarinet, saxophone. Other instruments (bass clarinet, saxophone, flute, clarinet) on floor by front row performers. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-075.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing at the Carriage Club

Warren Durrett standing in front of a piano to the left of his orchestra in a suit and bowtie in a conducting stance, with a white woman singer in a black dress seated in front him. The band members (all white men) are in red suit jackets and black pants and bowties, organized in three rows behind stands, with the last row standing. Back row: five trumpets with mutes. Middle row: drums, four trombones. Front row: Three saxophones, clarinet, saxophone. Other instruments (bass clarinet, saxophone, flute, clarinet) on floor by front row performers. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-076.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing at The Landing

Warren Durrett conducting his orchestra on a makeshift stage. The band members (all white men) are wearing dark red jackets and black pants and bowties, and are standing in three rows behind music stands. Back row: four trumpets. Middle row: four trombones (fourth obscured by another band member). Front row: double bass, saxophone, clarinet, three saxophones. Lights point down onto the band and three microphones in front of the band, with a stage lamp pointing upwards at one of them. A sign on the wall behind the band reads: "WDAF 6[obscured] RADIO."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-077.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing with singer

Warren Durrett standing to the left of his orchestra (one African American man, the rest white men), looking at an unidentified white woman vocalist who is standing at a microphone in front of the band. Band members are in suits and bowties, in three rows behind stands, last row standing. Back row: double bass, four trumpets. Middle row: drums, four trombones. Front row: four saxophones, bass clarinet. Behind the band are plants, chandeliers, and windows.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-078.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and others in a recording studio

Three unidentified white men standing behind and Patty Tucker (standing on a short box) and Marilyn Maye in a studio. They are behind a microphone and a music stand, likely recording vocals for a jingle, with a second music stand to the side at a lower height. A white man dressed in a suit and tie stands to the right, holding what appears to be a stop watch in one hand, and a script in the other, looking down towards the script. Another microphone is behind him, and a television is mounted on the wall to the far right.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-079.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and others in a recording studio

Patty Tucker, two unidentified white men, Marilyn Maye, and another unidentified white man in a recording studio. The first four are staring at a music stand with a microphone in front of it, while a separate microphone hangs in front of the man on the right, who is holding sheet music in his hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-080.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Patty Tucker, Marilyn Maye, Carol Johnston, and others in a recording studio

Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and two unidentified white men in a recording studio. The three women are looking at music on a music stand, and one of the men, in a suit and tie, is looking at the other man, who is standing at a microphone. The man at the microphone is staring at a sheet of paper in his hand, and he has a cigarette in his other hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-081.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Patty Tucker, Marilyn Maye, Carol Johnston, and others in a recording studio

Unidentified white woman at a microphone in a recording studio, staring toward the camera, with a sheet of paper in her hand. In the background, Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, and an unidentified white man (mostly obscured), and Patty Tucker (mostly obscured, standing on a short box), are behind another microphone and a music stand. The man is holding sheet music in his hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-082.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Marilyn Maye, Carol Johnston, and two men in a recording studio

An unidentified white man speaking into a microphone, holding a paper in his hand. In the background, Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, and a second unidentified white man (mostly obscured) stand behind a music stand and a second microphone.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-083.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and three men in a recording studio

Carol Johnston, Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and an unidentified white man in a recording studio, singing in front of a music stand. Two other unidentified white men stand to the right behind a microphone, and one man is staring at paper he is holding in his hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-084.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Marilyn Maye, Patty Tucker, and others in a recording studio

Marilyn Maye, an unidentified white man in a bowtie, Patty Tucker, another unidentified white man, and an unidentified white woman in a recording studio, singing in front of a music stand, with two microphones hanging in front of them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-085.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059