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 crouching in the snow

Warren Durrett in a winter coat and gloves, crouching down in the snow, in front of trees and houses.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-171.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett headshot

Warren Durrett seated at the piano, smiling. Behind him is a trombone with a bass to the right, and a curtain in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-172.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett headshot

Headshot of Warren Durrett in a tuxedo jacket and bowtie. Everything besides his face is slightly out of focus.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-174.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett performing at 1946 Hobo Day

Warren Durrett with sunglasses and rolled up sleeves, seated at the piano, performing outside. A man is standing in the background, and there are trees behind him.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-165.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Studio portrait of Dorothy Morris

Dorothy Morris looking stern, in a coat, backlit from above left, in front of a dark studio backdrop.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-181.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Studio portrait of Ruth Anne Gay

Ruth Anne Gay in a dress with shoulder length wavy hair, face cocked to the right, in front of a photo studio backdrop.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-183.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Studio portrait of Izedore Crose

Izedore Crose, smiling, head cocked slightly, with long curly hair, in front of a grey studio backdrop.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-182.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Studio portrait of Nell Weesmer

Nell Weesner, smiling, with curly hair, in dark clothing with a brooch in front of a light backdrop.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-180.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Milo Durrett and the 31st Regiment band

31st Regiment Band in uniform, standing in four rows, on the steps of a large brick building with columns, holding their instruments. Back row: sousaphone; five trombones; another sousaphone. Second row from top: two men, unclear which instruments; three French horns; one saxophone; one more unclear. Third row from top: unclear; five clarinets; unclear (oboe?). Front row: Milo Durrett, holding a conductor's baton; six trumpets; R.J. Bieber, holding a walking staff. On the ground in front of them is a Bass drum with attached cymbal and a snare drum, with sticks and a beater. Writing beneath the band, on the image itself, reads: "Milo A. Durrett / Master Technical Sergeant / Conductor. 3st Regiment Band Parris Island South Carolina. Tech. Sgt. R.J. Bieber / Ass't. Leader."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-185.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Contact sheet of the Warren Durrett Orchestra performing at Alameda Plaza

Contact sheet with ten images, numbered: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 (10 crossed out), 12 (11 crossed out), 12A. 3: Woman with fists clenched, singing into a microphone, in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra, seated and playing their music behind stands. 4: Warren Durrett at the piano with sheet music, a lamp, and a sign reading "Warren Durrett Orchestra." 5: Woman seated next to the piano, in front of the trombone section of the Warren Durrett Orchestra, one player standing. 6: Photo from behind of Warren Durrett seated at the piano, playing, facing his orchestra members. 7: Saxophone section (five members) standing up at their music stands and playing 8: Saxophone section standing up at their music stands and playing, with Warren Durrett and a microphone off to the left. 9: Close shot of saxophone section standing up at their music stands and playing. 11: Trumpet section (five members) seated at their stands and playing with mutes, bass player to the left. 12: Close shot of trumpet section seated at their stands and playing with mutes, bass player to the left. 12A: Clarinetist standing and playing, saxophonist seated to the right, woman singer and another player seated to the left.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-186.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Bob Ousley talking with another man in a recording studio

Bob Ousley holding a cup in his left hand, talking to a man in a decoratively patterned shirt in a recording studio. Chairs and acoustic panels are on the wall behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-194.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Warren Durrett Orchestra in a recording studio

Warren Durrett Orchestra seated in folding metal chairs in a recording studio. Saxophones are visible in the front and left, trombones in the back right, and trumpets mostly obscured to the left of the trombones. Tall microphone stands hang down in the middle of the performers, with someone seated at a podium looking at the score. There are instrument cases strewn all over the floor and acoustic paneling on the walls behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-195.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Two men in a recording studio

Man in a patterned shirt and man in a striped shirt and a visor standing in a recording studio with their arms resting on a large equipment case. There are microphones behind them, in front of the wall.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Musicians in a recording studio

Man in a decoratively patterned shirt and a sweater seated behind a music stand in a recording studio. There is another musician back to the left with arms folded, and a third musician farther back, beyond a dividing partition, with an electric bass. There are microphones around and acoustic panels on the wall behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_durrett_photo-197.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0059
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Studio portrait of man in Navy uniform

Headshot of an unidentified white man in Navy hat and uniform, smiling, looking off slightly towards the left, in front of a light studio backdrop.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0059