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.
Member of
LaBudde Special Collections
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Warren Durrett and his orchestra with woman singer

Warren Durrett performing at the piano with his orchestra, with an unidentified white woman singer seated to the right in a polka dot dress. Band members (all white men) are performing in suits and striped bowties behind them: trombone with mute, trumpet with mute, two clarinets, flute, bass clarinet, double bass, and drums. Saxophones are visible on the floor next to some of the wind players. A microphone is in front of everyone, and a large curtain is behind the band.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-112.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett performing with his orchestra at the Pla-Mor

Warren Durrett seated at the piano, performing with his orchestra (white men in photo). Scores rest on top of the piano lid, along with a sign reading "Warren Durrett and His Orchestra." Standing in the background at a music stand is a performer on double bass, and two other faces are visible back to the right.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-107.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Woman vocalist with the Warren Durrett orchestra at the Pla-Mor

Unidentified white woman vocalist seated next to the piano and to the Warren Durrett orchestra. Warren Durrett is standing in front of the orchestra at a microphone. The performers (all white men) are in three rows behind music stands. Back row: three trumpets, one with mute. Second row: double bass, drums, electric guitar and amplifier, two trombones with mutes. Front row: two saxophones, two unclear (obscured by Durrett). A large curtain hangs behind the band.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-108.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett orchestra performing for a crowd

Warren Durrett orchestra (white men) performing in rows behind music stands. Back row: two violins, double bass, four trumpets. Middle row: two violins, drums, four trombones. Front row: two violins, three saxophones. Solo clarinet standing in front, performing into a microphone. The performance is at an event, and white men (some with skinny ties) and white women are conversing and mingling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-105.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Woman singing with the Warren Durrett orchestra at the Pla-Mor

Unidentifie white woman singing in front of a microphone in front of the Warren Durrett orchestra (all white men). Durrett is visible on the left, playing the piano. A music stand is to the right, and behind the singer is an elevated platform, on which there is a musician playing double bass. There is an ornately carved pillar by the bassist.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-106.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing at the 1947 Kangaroo Hop

Warren Durrett performing on saxophone with his orchestra, standing next to the piano. A back row of band members is standing, including bass, trumpets, and trombones. Seated in front of them are saxophonists. A woman in a dress is seated in front of the band, and there are couples dancing on the floor.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-163.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing at the 1945 Turkey Hop

Warren Durrett standing in a suit in front of his orchestra. To the left is a woman in a dress standing at a microphone. The band members are behind stands that read "W.D." There is a bassist, guitarist, and a drummer in the back, and saxophonists seated in front of them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-164.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra performing in Estes Park

Warren Durrett Orchestra (all white men in the photo) standing and performing at their music stands reading "WD". There is a piano at the left, a bassist, and a row with Warren Durrett and four other men playing saxophone, obscuring the row of musicians behind them. They are on a wooden platform stage, with an American flag on the wall behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-166.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett near Oak Grove

Warren Durrett standing and smiling, giving thumbs up in front of a small wooden outbuilding with the number 3 above the door. He is in a field with tall grass, trees, and houses in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-167.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett resting in front of a fireplace

Warren Durrett in a jacket and a patterned sweater, leaning back on a fireplace mantle with a cigarette in his mouth. Two figurines of women are on the ends of the mantle, the wall is coated in leaf-patterned wallpaper, and there is a painting of flowers above the fireplace.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-169.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett accepting an award

Warren Durrett in a suit and bowtie, standing on stage, grabbing an award from a man with his left hand, and shaking the man's right hand. They are behind a microphone, and behind them to the left is a man clapping, holding paper, and another man to the right, almost entirely obscured. There is a chair and a piano on stage, and a drum get on risers, with curtains in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-177.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Studio portrait of an older couple

Studio photograph of an unidentified white woman and man, exposed from torso up, white elsewhere. The woman is wearing a dress with a flower, and the man is wearing a suit and tie. They are both wearing glasses and looking at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-178.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett in a tuxedo seated at the piano

Warren Durrett in a tuxedo seated at a piano with the lid propped open, hammers visible. Curtains and painted flowers and trees are on the wall behind him.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-175.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett accepting an award

Man in a suit standing and speaking on stage with a card in his hand, held out towards Warren Durrett, who is standing in a suit and bowtie with an award cradled in his left arm. They are on a stage behind a microphone, and behind them are wooden chairs, a piano, and a drum kit on a riser, with curtains in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-176.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett on Peachtree Street in Atlanta

Warren Durrett in a suit and tie, walking down the street in front of a shop on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. To the left is an unidentified white man walking in the other direction in a suit and a hat.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-170.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059