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Title
Drummer Buddy Rich with band at the Plantation Club, Los Angeles, 1940s
Date Created and/or Issued
[1940s?]
1940/1949
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Rights Information
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Description
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Drummer Buddy Rich standing on stage (2nds from left) with his band with women seated at a table on the floor. Seated, left to right: Maudine Simmons, unidentified woman, Alyce Key, Catherine Basie, and Charlotte Strickland (light-colored flowers in hair).
The Plantation Club was located at 108th St. and S. Central Avenue.
Type

Identifier
276
Collection 1867 Box 2 Folder 3
ark:/21198/zz0025pb83
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Entertainment
People
African American jazz musicians--California--Los Angeles
Drummers (Musicians)--United States
Jazz musicians--United States
Nightclubs--California--Los Angeles
Key, Alyce, 1911-2010
Basie, Catherine Morgan, 1914-1983
Strickland, Charlotte West
Rich, Buddy, 1917-1987
Creswell, Maudine Simmons, b. 1912 or 13
Plantation Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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