Four piece brass jazz band including William Wimpie" Mosley, Joe Porter, and Leroy Brown"

ca. 1940-1958

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Four piece brass jazz band including William Wimpie" Mosley, Joe Porter, and Leroy Brown"
  • Title
  • Four piece brass jazz band including William Wimpie" Mosley, Joe Porter, and Leroy Brown"
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1940-1958
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.158
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.158
  • Description
  • Four piece brass jazz band including William Wimpie" Mosley, Joe Porter, and Leroy Brown. Leroy Brown, saxophone player, is listed as a musician in Pittsburgh city directories by 1948. The men wear white tie and tails. Their instruments include two trombones, a trumpet, a clarinet, and a saxophone."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Group portraits--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jazz bands--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jazz musicians--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jazz music--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Mosley, William.
    Porter, Joe.
    Brown, Leroy.
    Entertainers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Musical instruments--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Bands (Music)--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