Duke Ellington Orchestra: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Image of nine musicians playing a cornet, a piano, four saxophones, and three trombones. The print represents musicians in the Duke Ellington Orchestra: Rex Stewart (cornet), Duke Ellington (piano), Barney Bigard (saxophone), Johnny Hodges (saxophone), Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton (trombone), Otto Hardwick (saxophone), Juan Tizol (trombone), Harry Carney (saxophone), and Lawrence Brown (trombone).

DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA REX DUKE BIGARD HODGES "TRICKY SAM" HARDWICK TIZOL CARNEY BROWN.

This print is from a set of 15 lithographs of jazz musicians by Charles Delauney, entitled Hot Iconography, first printed in 1939.

Charles Delaunay (1911–1988) was a French author and jazz expert. Delaunay was the co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France, a French organization of jazz fans dedicated to the promotion of "traditional" jazz, swing, and blues. In 1931, the Jazz Club Universitaire was founded, and later became the Hot Club de France in 1932.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 1939
• depicted: Bigard, Barney
• depicted: Hodges, Johnny
• depicted: Nanton, Joe "Tricky Sam"
• depicted: Hardwick, Otto
• depicted: Tizol, Juan
• depicted: Carney, Harry
• depicted: Brown, Lawrence
• depicted: Ellington, Duke
• Object Name: print
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 59.5 cm x 44.5 cm; 23 7/16 in x 17 1/2 in
• Measurements: overall: 23 1/8 in x 17 5/16 in; 58.7375 cm x 43.97375 cm
• place made: France
• ID Number: 2001.0182.14
• accession number: 2001.0182
• catalog number: 2001.0182.14
• Credit Line: Gift of Chris Gillis
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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