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Douglass Center Drum and Bugle Corps (photo courtesy of Erma Bridgewater)
Douglass Center Drum Corps enters the Illini Union (photo courtesy of Erma Bridgewater)
Douglass Center Drum Corps in rehearsal (photo courtesy of Erma Bridgewater)
Guitar lesson in progress at Douglass Center (photo courtesy of Erma Bridgewater)
Mac Scott and His Footwarmers (photo courtesy of Erma Bridgewater)
Pete Bridgewater Quintet (photo courtesy of Erma Bridgewater)
Pete Bridgewater Quartet at the Cloverleaf Club, 1963: Clyde "Sweets" Perkins on drums, Pete Bridgewater on bass, Tony Zamora on tenor sax, Ernest Hite on piano (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora's Uhuru Ensemble: John Alexander, Nathaniel Banks, Tony Zamora, Vann Johnson, Vinson Johnson (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora Ensemble: guitarist LaMonte Parsons, drummer Count Demon, trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, singer Dee Dee Garrett, saxophonist Tony Zamora, organist Milton Knox- holding Cecil's flugelhorn! (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Count Demon (aka William Evans) at Treno's (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora Ensemble: drummer Maurice McKinley, trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, saxophonist Tony Zamora, organist Milton Knox (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Maurice McKinley and Cecil Bridgewater (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Vinson Johnson, Ron Bridgewater, Donald Smith (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora, Cecil Bridgewater, Ron Bridgewater (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora
Cecil Bridgewater and Tony Zamora at Treno's (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora with his Uhuru Ensemble, Crystal Lake Park, 1970 (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Willie Amoaku (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Waymon "Punchy" Atkinson (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Demons of Jazz. Billy Howe, trumpet; Count Demon, drums; Waymon "Punchy" Atkinson, tenor saxophone; Bob Reeves, bass; and Joe Bradley, piano (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Preston Jackson (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora Ensemble: Glenn Cronkite, drums; Maurice Davis, trumpet; Bennie Tyree, vocalist; Donald Smith, organ (holding Maurice's trumpet). (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Tony Zamora Ensemble at the NCO Club, Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois: Milton Knox, LaMonte Parsons, Cecil Bridgewater, Dee Dee Garrett, Tony Zamora (photo courtesy of Tony Zamora)
Bud Roderick Band, 1945, at the Club Commons in the Illini Union Building: Austin McDowell (lead alto), Marty Rubenstein (piano), Hal Lutenbach (drums), Jack May (tenor), Bud Roderick (leader and tenor saxophone), Ernie Taylor (bass/arranger), Stan Rahn (baritone saxophone/vocals), Carl Leech (ride trumpet); Back Row: Bill Brophy (lead trumpet), Fred Hubble (alto saxophone) (photo courtesy of Jack May)