Musician Collection

Mariachi crossing the street Beatles style, Mexico
Traditional Mariachi group crossing the street in Beatles style, Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico

Mexican Mariachi group doing a siesta, Mexico
Traditional mexican Mariachi group in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (MR)

Illustration, jazz band, six men wearing bow ties and waistcoats playing trumpet, trombone, drums, clarinet, banjo and double bass, front view

Jazz Beach Party in Miami
Jazz musicians and dancers from a club in Miami hit the surf after a hot performance. The band members are still carrying their instruments

The Beatles on a Boat's Bow
The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr (left to right), on the bow of a boat in Miami Beach

Man with trumpet from Mariachi group, Mexico
Traditional mexican Mariachi group in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (MR)

Beach Party
A group of surfers on a beach with a Ford Mustang car

Monument to Franz Liszt, 1902, by sculptor Hermann Hahn, Carrara marble, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Illustration, string quartet, four sitting men in tuxedos playing two violins, a viola and cello, front view

Illustration, mariachi band consisting of four guitarists in grey Mexican hats and matching suits, front view

The enraged musician (XXXL)
The enraged musician engraved by E.Stalker around 1840.AbobeRGB

Arab Wedding Procession
Members of an Arab wedding procession

Al Jolson with Minstrel Troupe and Band
(Original Caption) Group portrait of minstrel troupe at outdoor stage, picturing Lew Dockstaders (front row center) and Al Jolson (second from left). Photo circa 1900

Bix Beiderbecke
(Original Caption) Portrait of Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist and composer of the late 1920s who had a significant impact on the history of music before his death at the age of 28

Man playing mandolin

Armenian Genocide
Armenian boy band in Constantinople

Children (4-5) playing in orchestra
(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Tommy Dorsey Playing The Trombone
(Original Caption) Tommy Dorsey playing the trombone during a recording session. Undated photo circa 1940s

Jazz Musician Billy Eckstine
(Original Caption) Picture shows Billy Eckstine, American Jazz musician, shown singing and wearing a suit. Undated phot circa 1950s

Jazz Musician Billy Eckstine
(Original Caption) Picture shows a posed head shot of jazz musician Billy Eckstine. Undated photo circa 1950s

Barnum's Museum by Thomas Benecke
During winter in New York, a sleighing party crowds the street in front of Barnum's Museum

Engraving of the Triumphal March from the Verdi Opera Aida
Undated engraving

Girl Dancing the "Charleston"
Harriet Fowler wins the "Charleston Contest" in the 1920's

Jazz Musician Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) was a very influential clarinetist and soprano saxophonist

Couple Going for New Dancing Record
Eldora Reese and Charles Houston starts out for a new dance marathon record

Lucie Rosen Playing Theremin Instrument for NBC Radio
(Original Caption) Young woman playing the theremin

Jazz Band Performing in Berlin
(Original Caption) Berlin, Germany: Photo shows a happy Jazz Band in Berlin, Germany. Undated photograph, circa 1920

Actress Anna May Wong Holding Instrument
Actress Anna May Wong holding a Japanese shamisen and sitting underneath a caged bird

Lucie Bigelow Rosen Playing Theremin
(Original Caption) Lucie Bigelow Rosen playing the Theremin. Pitch is controlled by hand movements

Mosaic Artifact of One of the Kings of Ur
(Original Caption) 7/26/1923: Photo shows the Mosaic "standard" of one of the kings of Ur, depicting on one side the Army of the Sumerians

Louis Armstrong with His Chicago Band
(Original Caption) Louis Armstrong (b.1900), jazz trumpeter, at the beginning of his career, and his Chicago band. Photograph, ca. 1925

Jazz band playing to babies (6-11 months)
Jack Pettis, Harold Rehring, Donald Bryan and Leonard Kavash, the Bernie Jazz artist, tried to entertain Mary Mahoney, Patricia McGahan, Florence Mahoney and Charles Douglas

James Caesar Petrillo
JAMES CAESAR PETRILLOPRESIDENT OF THE AMERICANFEDERATION OF MUSICIANS.1928 PHOTOGRAPH

Jazz Musicians in Jam Session
(Original Caption) Recently a group of famous band leaders got together for a jam session at the Manhattan Center in New York City

Jazz Musician Cab Calloway
Jazz musician Cab Calloway wearing a white zoot suit and holding a baton

Stripper Dancing in Berlin Night Club
(Original Caption) 1930's- Berlin, Germany: Berlin night club of the early 1930's with strip tease act. Valina Vallona does her thing at the Picadilly Club

Duke Ellington on White House Steps
(Original Caption) 10/1/1931-Washington, DC- Duke Ellington leaves the White House after meeting President Herbert Hoover

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt Watches Banjo Players
(Original Caption) 8/12/1933-White Top Mountain, Virginia- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown with the group of Virginia "Ridge Runners" who entertained her

Jazz Musician Earl Hines Crowning Boxer Joe Louis
(Original Caption) 8/8/1935-Chicago, IL- This is about the nearest sphinx-like Joe Louis ever comes to a smile

Benny Goodman
(Original Caption) 8/1/1938-New York, NY- Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing Music, " arrives from Europe on the liner Normandie

Three Young Boys Playing Musical Instruments
(Original Caption) 11/11/1938: Dick Burkert, Stan Edwards, and Abe Leidtka in "Juvenile Harmony"

Duke Ellington
(Original Caption) 5/10/1939-New York, NY- Duke Ellington, famous negro band leader and composer, is shown arriving on the S.S

Dancers Rehearsing for Mission Fiesta
Dancers in traditional dresses practice to a mariachi band for the Mission Fiesta in San Gabriel

Blues Singer Lead Belly
Close-up of jazz musician Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. Photograph, May 1966

Man Playing Banjo
(Original Caption) KY-Photo shows an African-American singer playing banjo. Model: L. Reed. Undated. (Photo by �� Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive)

Red Heads Red-Hot-For-Roosevelt
Irene Lobel, Shirley Miller, and Rose Murphy (left to right), red-headed members of the All-American, All-red-headed Red-Hot-For-Roosevelt organization

Balinese Musicians Playing Gamelan
Balinese musicians playing an ornately carved Gamelan

Aircraft Carrier Crew Listening to Concert
(Original Caption) 12/4/1943- Somewhere in the Pacific- Gathering around an impromptu stage on the flight deck of a navy aircraft carrier

Cab Calloway and Young Boy
(Original Caption) 1944- Picture shows Cab Calloway with young boy in song & dance number. Both men are wearing white tuxedos and top hats

Band Leader Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan and his Orchestra in Columbia's Meet Miss Bobby Socks, 1944

Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five
Louis Jordan and his Orchestra in Meet Miss Bobby Socks 1944

Racially Integrated Dance Party
(Original Caption) 6/9/1944-The Southern California sun is shining outside, but these gators and girl friends are in the groove and out of this world. (Original Caption)

Couples Dancing at Steeplechase Park
(Original Caption) 6/11/1944-JAM SESSION.... There is even a corner for the hepcats at Steeplechase Park

Giant Cash Register in Times Square
(Original Caption) New York: Erected in the middle of Times Square, this giant cash register will serve to record the sales in the 5th War Loan Drive which got under way in New York yesterday

Larry Adler, Jack Benny, and Soldier
(Original Caption) 8/29/1944-Southwest Pacific: Larry Adler (left), Harmonica Virtuoso, gets together on a duo with Pfc

Julie Andrews Writing Music on Wall
(Original Caption) 5/25/1947- Instead of the usual playroom, Julie has a music room in the Andrews home. Everything in the room pertains to music

Spike Jones Plays Drums
Spike Jones wears a comically small hat as he plays the drums

Princess Diana Meeting Duran Duran Members
(Original Caption) 7/20/1983-London: Princess Diana of Wales shakes hands with John Taylor of the Duran Duran pop group 7/20

Joan Rivers Interviews Boy George
(Original Caption) 12/1/1983-Hollywood, California: Joan Rivers interviews pop musician Boy George, of Culture Club, on "The Joan Rivers Show." Rivers

Celebrities at Awards Dinner
A portrait of Lionel Richie and Grammy Award winning producer Quincy Jones sharing a laugh with the American Society of Composers, Authors

Cyndi Lauper Holding Music Awards
Pop star Cyndi Lauper holds her two American Music Awards, which she won for Favorite Female Artist Pop/Rock and Favorite Female Video Artist Pop/Rock

Ravi Shankar Playing Sitar
(Original Caption) 5/14/1985: Indian musician Ravi Shankar playing the sitar

New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic performance at the renovated Carnegie Hall during the concert hall's gala reopening

Prairie Home Companion's Keillor
Garrison Keillor hosts the last "A Prairie Home Companion" show in 1987 before he retired for several years

Miles Davis Performing at Jazz Festival
(Original Caption) 6/20/1987-New York- Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis performs 6/19 at the JVC jazz fest, New York's biggest annual music celebration

The Rolling Stones at Press Conference
(Original Caption) 7/11/1989-New York: The Rolling Stones assemble at Grand Central Terminal to announce a long-awaited tour and a new album, Steel Wheels

John Mellencamp
(Original Caption) 4/8/1990-Indianapolis, IN- John Mellencamp waves to the audience after finishing his set during the Farm Aid IV concert at Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis

Stephen Stills, Jackson Browne and Arlo Guthrie
(Original Caption) 4/8/1990-Indianapolis, IN- Stephen Stills, Jackson Browne, and Arlo Guthrie (L-R) sing "This Land Is Your Land

Engraving of a Traditional 18th-Century Chamber Orchestra
(Original Caption) Chamber music ensemble at the time of Johann Sebastian Bach (Typical Chamber orchestra accompanying the piano concertos by the composer

Mountain Musicians Play by Waterfall
(Original Caption) Hillsville Fiddlers in Virginia at Jackson's Ferry. A group of mountain musicians at Holladay's Mill. Undated photograph

Carl Sanburg Playing The Guitar
(Original Caption) Portrait of American folk musician Carl Sandburg, playing the guitar. Undated publicity handout

Musician Playing String Instrument
(Original Caption) African musician with string instruments

Musician Stephen Collins Foster
American musician and poet Stephen Collins Foster who wrote Oh! Susanna and Old Folks at Home also known as Swanee River

Native Americans Dance Amongst Teepees
A group of Native Americans perform an Elk Medicine dance in Glacier National Park

The Beatles Arrive in London
A portrait of The Beatles with their manager, Brian Epstein, arriving in London where they are welcomed by a crowd of two hundred fans

Engraving of Frog and Insect Musicians
(Original Caption) Illustration, "BREAKING UP OF OUR SUMMER CONCERT, " with the caption, "Good-by, old fellow

Chamber Music Group with Calligraphic Composition
(Original Caption) Music: Allegorical picture showing an 18th Century Chamber music group with calligraphic composition, reading: "Musick; Musick (sic) is an insearchable and excellent Art

Boy Listening To Tuba Player
Two-year-old Bobby McAdoo after moving closer to the Tuba during a performance opening School Week in San Francisco

Sidney Bechet and Jazz Musicians
Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) talks to Swedish jazz stars Putte Wickman and Alice Babs. Bechet was a very influential clarinetist and soprano saxophonist

Bobby Sherman
(Original Caption) Pop star and TV actor Bobby Sherman

Jazz Musician Dave Brubeck at Piano
Picture shows jazz musician, Dave Brubeck, seated at a piano. He is leaning over with his arms on top of the piano and wearing his trademark black glasses. Undated photo circa 1950s

Artie Shaw Wiping his Eyes During Testimony
(Original Caption) Photo shows Artie Shaw as he wipes the tears from his eyes during testimony. He shed a few tears while recounting his rise to fame from a poor beginning

Jitterbugging at Loew's Victoria Theater
(Original Caption) 06/25/1953-New York City, NY: Loew's Victoria Theater, 125th St. & 7th Ave.. Jitterbugging

Marilyn Monroe Waving
Marilyn Monroe during a night show for the 25th Marine Division in Korea

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