Bob Cooper was a West Coast jazz musician known primarily for playing tenor saxophone, but also for being one of the first to play jazz solos on oboe.
Cooper, c. 1947
Bob Cooper and June Christy, ca. 1947
Stanley Newcomb Kenton was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though Kenton had several pop hits from the early 1940s into the 1960s, his music was always forward-looking. Kenton was also a pioneer in the field of jazz education, creating the Stan Kenton Jazz Camp in 1959 at Indiana University.
Kenton in January 1947
Stan Kenton, Billboard magazine, October 1942
Stan Kenton with bassist Eddie Safranski, 1947 or 1948
Sam Donahue and orchestra, Kenton on right, New York, 1946