[Allen Toussaint and Vernel Bagneris.]

[Ruth Brown, Vernel Bagneris, Marva Hicks and Allen Toussaint.]

[Allen Toussaint, Ruth Brown, Marva Hicks and Vernel Bagneris.]

[Allen Toussaint, Ruth Brown, Marva Hicks and Vernel Bagneris.]

[Vernel Bagneris, Marva Hicks, Allen Toussaint and Ruth Brown.]

[Allen Toussaint, Ruth Brown, Marva Hicks and Vernel Bagneris.]

[Ruth Brown, Allen Toussaint, Marva Hicks and Vernel Bagneris.]

[Vernel Bagneris.]

[Vernel Bagneris and Marva Hicks.]

[Vernel Bagneris and Ruth Brown.]

[Vernel Bagneris, Ruth Brown and Marva Hicks.]

[Allen Toussaint.]

[Vernel Bagneris, creator of "One Mo' Time".]

["Staggerlee" theater still.]

[Sholem Secunda, Maurice Schwartz, and Aaron Zeitlin.]

[Steve Allen.]

[The cast of "I Love My Wife" with producer Terry Allen Kramer.]

[Choreographer Marvin Gordon, writer Jerome Weidman, composer Duke Ellington and director Richard Altman at a rehearsal for "Pousse-Café".]

[Vincent Youmans, producer and composer of "Great Day".]

[Jerome Robbins, Leland Hayward, and Irving Berlin.]