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Promotional poster for Erskine Hawkins with the Birmingham Heritage Band, Los Angeles Convention Center, June 30, 1990.

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Advertisement for Fess Whately's Saxo-Society Orchestra of Industrial High School, circa 1930: "A Neat Appearing Group of Men that Will Grace Any Function."

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Erskine Hawkins performs with the Birmingham Heritage Band at the annual Function at the Junction in Ensley, Alabama, July 23, 1988. Amos Gordon conducts in the band. Henry Blankenship sings.

Begun in 1985 in Ensley's Tuxedo Junction Park, the…

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Dr. Tolton Rosser directs the Birmingham Heritage Band at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame's 1998 induction ceremony, Birmingham, Alabama.

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Brothers Charles ("Chuck") and Arthur ("Babe" or "Bayboy") Clarke perform with the Men of the Great Lakes Experience Navy Band, World War II. Like musicians across the country -- including many Birmingham jazz players -- the Clarke brothers found a…

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Jimmy Chappell Orchestra at the Pickwick Club, Birmingham, Alabama.

Courtesy Carol Clarke.

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Free jazz saxophonist Arthur Doyle, Birmingham, Alabama, 2000.

Photo by Craig Legg, courtesy Craig Legg.

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Birmingham saxophonist Jimmy Colvin

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Inaugural inductees to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham, Alabama, 1978. From left to right: Sammy Lowe (trumpeter, arranger), Erskine Hawkins (trumpeter, bandleader), Frank Adams (reeds, educator), Amos Gordon (reeds, educator), Haywood…

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In addition to the Birmingham Heritage Band, Newman Terrell performed with the Bama State Collegians and the Fess Whatley orchestra. In the 1950s -- with Birmingham musicians Walter Miller and Melvin Caswell -- Terrell relocated to Liberia, Monrovia,…

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Frank Adams Band at a Birmingham Nightclub, 1950s. Left to right are Ivory "Pops" Williams. Selena Mealings, Frank Adams, and Martin Barnett.

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Paul Bascomb postcard, stamped 1965. Caption on back of card: “PAUL BASCOMB … Born in Birmingham, Ala. Attended Alabama State College and originated the ‘Bama State Collegians’ Band and the famous Erskine Hawkins Band. His brother, Dud Bascomb, is a…

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Fess Whatley’s Sax-o-Society Orchestra, c. 1940s.

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Bandleader John T. "Fess" Whatley stands at far left in the center row. Many of Whatley's students would go on to professional careers as jazz musicians.

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Industrial High School Band, 1930-1931. Band director John T. “Fess” Whatley at far right.

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