Aaron Neville at the Kansas City Spirit Fest
Aaron Neville, one of the national acts to perform at the Kansas City Spirit Festival, wearing a leopard print tank top, stands and sings into a microphone he holds in his left hand.
Adam Page at the Gem Theater
Adam Page, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, looks down at the neck of a guitar during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the Community Heritage Award
The photographer caught Ahmad Alaadeen with his eyes closed as he is smiling and holding a microphone in his right hand and the 2000 Community Heritage Award in a folder in his left hand as he accepts...
Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the Community Heritage Award
Ahmad Alaadeen smiling and holding a microphone in his right hand and the 2000 Community Heritage Award in a folder in his left hand as he accepts the award from the Missouri House of Representatives...
Ahmad Alaadeen at the Gem Theater
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a Kufi cap, speaks into a microphone attached to a podium during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Ahmad Alaadeen holding his Community Heritage Award
Ahmad Alaadeen, smiling and standing as he holds a framed copy of the Missouri House of Representatives' Resolution that he's the recipient of the Missouri Humanities Council's 2000 Governor's...
Al Pearson at the Gem Theater
Al Pearson, wearing a dark suit, closes his eyes and blows into a trumpet during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. Curtains are visible in the background.
Allen Monroe at the Kansas City, KS Blues Street Fest
Allen Monroe, keyboards reflected in the lenses of his glasses, wears a Vietnam veteran ball cap and looks directly at the photographer with a microphone to the left of his face at the Kansas City, KS...
Andrew Love at the Uptown Theater
Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns, one of the national acts to perform at the Uptown Theater, blows into a saxophone.
Arthur Jackson at the Grand Emporium
Arthur Jackson, wearing a tuxedo and a beret, closes his eyes as he blows into a tenor saxophone at the Speed Huggins Benefit in the Grand Emporium.
BB Dickerson at the Grand Emporium
B.B. Dickerson, of the Same Ole Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks up as he plays an electric bass.
BB King at KC Spirit Festival
B.B. King from below, smiles as he plays an electric guitar. One of the national acts at the KC Spirit Festival.
Ben Kynard performs at Mutual Musicians Foundation
Ben Kynard's face with his eyes closed, cheeks bulged out, as he blows into a saxophone mouthpiece at Mutual Musicians Foundation.
Bernard Allison at the Grand Emporium
Bernard Allison, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a cowboy hat, grins to his left as he plays an electric guitar.
Bernard Allison at the W.C. Handy Awards
Bernard Allison, wearing a cowboy hat with a wide hat band, smiles at the photographer as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. An unidentified white male...
Big Jack Johnson at the Grand Emporium
Big Jack Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grimaces while he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar. He's wearing a fedora hat.
Bilbo Walker at the Grand Emporium
Robert "Bilbo" Walker, one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
Bill Carter at the Club Mardi Gras
Bill Carter, wearing a straw hat, looks out as he plays a guitar at the Club Mardi Gras, 19th & Vine, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bill Carter at the Gem Theater
Bill Carter, wearing a fedora and a light-colored tux with dark lapels and sides stripes, faces forward with his eyes shifted to the right, as he plays his guitar behind a microphone during the Living...
Bird Fleming at Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase
Bird Fleming, from the left, wearing traditional African clothing, smiles as he plays a Djembe drum with a ksink attached at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual...
Biscuit Miller at the Grand Emporium
Biscuit Miller, of the Lonnie Brooks Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grins directly at the photographer as he plays an electric bass.
Bnois King at the Grand Emporium
BNois King, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a flat cap, looks down as he plays a guitar.
Bo Diddley at Roadhouse Ruby's South
Bo Diddley, one of the national acts to perform at Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, looks up to his left as he realigns a capo on the neck of his square guitar.
Bobby Adams at the Grand Emporium
Bobby Adams, wearing a ball cap, looks at the photographer as he twirls a drumstick above the drum set he is playing at the Grand Emporium.
Bobby Watson at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Bobby Watson, wearing a fedora and suspenders, closes his eyes as he plays an alto saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.