Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. Adam Page is visible behind...
Bobby Bland, Lee Oskar, and others perform as one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium. Bobby Bland looks to his left shoulder towards Lee Oskar as Lee looks down and plays an amplified...
Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the bench but sitting on the arm of the bench with...
Elder Statesmen of KC Jazz including Oliver Todd sitting at the piano on the far left of the photograph, then Ben Kynard blowing into a saxophone seated in front of the piano, then Henry Hoard looking...
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke pose for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Back row: Holding a bass is Landon Murray. Wearing a fedora and a tie is Bill Whitehead. Kenny Richardson holds a saxophone and...
Grand Marquis during the Big Joe Turner Birthday Bash at BB's Lawnside BBQ: Bryan Redmond, wearing a zoot suit and holding a tenor saxophone stands next to Ben Ruth who is smiling and holding his...
Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a microphone. Ben Kynard and an unidentified...
Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside on steps and smile at the photographer.
Marilyn Maye bends to speak with Lonnie McFadden and Ronnie McFadden, the McFadden Brothers, at Club 427 in Kansas City, MO. Ronnie and Lonnie are looking up at Marilyn as they sit at a table behind...
Oliver Todd seated at and playing a white baby grand piano with his right side toward the photographer is looking intently at the wind players. Standing in front of the piano is an unidentified white...
A neon "Open" sign in the window is above Pat Morrissey's head as he sits, wearing a turtleneck sweater, suspenders, and two-tone wingtip shoes, closing his eyes and blowing into a trumpet during the...
Phil Callier and the Jhamm Band, with John Wier on trumpet, stand in front of a wall of graffiti at the Grand Emporium.
Ramonda Doakes, executive director of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, stands in front of a wood-paneled wall of photographs of musicians holding a plastic cup and smiling at the photographer in the...
Scamps at playing on a stage at Unity Temple on the Plaza: Art Jackson and Eddie Saunders, seated with their eyes closed playing their saxophones; Lucky Wesley looking to his right and smiling as he...
Stan Kessler, hair pulled back in a low ponytail, stands blowing into a trumpet next to a standing Kim Park blowing into a saxophone at the American Heartland Theater. An unidentified drummer and drum...
Stan Kessler and Kim Park taking a breath as they each get ready to blow into a trumpet and a saxophone, respectively at the American Heartland Theater.
