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Jazz musician Billy Rolle playing the saxophone in Coconut Grove - Miami, Florida

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Image Number

FA1182

Photographer

Nusz, Nancy, Collector.

Date

1985

Date Note

Photographed in November 1985.

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Collection

Folklife collection
Series 1640, Metro-Dade 1985-1986 ; Box 4, FF3

Geographic Term

Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)
Metropolitan Dade County (Fla.)

Personal Subjects

Rolle, Billy, 1927-

Physical Description

1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.

Jazz musician Billy Rolle playing the saxophone in Coconut Grove - Miami, Florida

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Title

Jazz musician Billy Rolle playing the saxophone in Coconut Grove - Miami, Florida

Subject

Musical instruments

Performances (Entertainment events)

Performing arts--Florida--Dade County--Miami

Arts (Performing)--Florida--Dade County--Miami

Songs, Jazz and Ragtime

Ethnicity, African American

Ethnicity, African diaspora

Wind instruments

Woodwind instruments

Saxophone

Music--Performance

African American entertainers--Florida--Dade County--Miami

Jazz

Jazz musicians

Instrumentalists

Wind instrument players

Woodwind instrument players

Saxophonists

African American men--Florida--Dade County--Miami

African American musicians--Florida--Dade County--Miami

Creator

Nusz, Nancy, Collector.

Date

1985

Identifier

FA1182

Image URL

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Thumbnail

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Date Note

Photographed in November 1985.

Geographic Term

Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Metropolitan Dade County (Fla.)

Color

b&w

Physical Description

1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.

Series Title

Folklife collection

Folklife Collection Series 1640, Metro-Dade 1985-1986 ; Box 4, FF3

Shelf Number

Shelf number: SNS1640B4F3.

Subject - Person

Rolle, Billy, 1927-

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Chicago Manual of Style

Nusz, Nancy, Collector. Jazz musician Billy Rolle playing the saxophone in Coconut Grove - Miami, Florida. 1985. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/106375>, accessed 11 June 2026.

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Nusz, Nancy, Collector. Jazz musician Billy Rolle playing the saxophone in Coconut Grove - Miami, Florida. 1985. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/106375>

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(State Archives of Florida/Nusz)

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