Jazz band with Horace Turner on trumpet, Bobby Boswell seated with trombone, Bobby Head on piano and Tommy Turrentine on trumpet

ca. 1940-1958

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Jazz band with Horace Turner on trumpet, Bobby Boswell seated with trombone, Bobby Head on piano and Tommy Turrentine on trumpet
  • Title
  • Jazz band with Horace Turner on trumpet, Bobby Boswell seated with trombone, Bobby Head on piano and Tommy Turrentine on trumpet
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1940-1958
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.154
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.154
  • Description
  • Jazz band with four trumpet players, a trombone player, a drummer, a piano player and a bandleader. The musicians are young men, perhaps high school students. They are dressed informally and playing in a large institutional room. Horace Turner is one trumpet player, Bobby Boswell is seated with trombone, Bobby Head is on piano and Tommy Turrentine is also on trumpet. Tommy Turrentine, Jr. is listed as a musician in the 1951 city directory, giving an approximate date for the photograph.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Musicians--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Boys--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jazz musicians--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jazz music--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Turner, Horace.
    Boswell, Bobby.
    Head, Bobby.
    Turrentine, Tommy.
    Bands (Music)--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jazz bands--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Musical instruments--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh