Image / Joe Williams, New York, 1955-1970

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Title: Joe Williams, New York, 1955-1970
Alternative Title: Jazz and Popular Music vocalists
Date Created and/or Issued: [1955-1970]
1955/1970
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Joe Williams wearing a white sweater.
Joe Williams was an African American jazz singer. He sang with big bands such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and also with his own combos. He sang in two films with the Basie orchestra, and sometimes worked as an actor.
Printed on back of photo: Joe Williams (1918- American Jazz musician, singer. Schomburg Center for research in Black culture. The New York Public Library. Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Crossing Cards. Trumansburg, N.Y. 14886.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b22_f13_003a.tif
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Subject: African American actors
African American singers
Williams, Joe, 1918-1999
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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