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...
Bruce Katz plays a grand piano with his head drawn back while Carey Bell blows into an amplified harmonica that he clutches in his hands at the 4th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue...
Eddie Tigner looks out over the piano where he's seated at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Eddie Tigner, wearing a Route 66 ball cap, looks seriously out over a microphone while he plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Everett Freeman, Jr. sitting sideways to the piano and smiling at the photographer with his left elbow resting on the keyboard at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine.
Everette DeVan, wearing a Nehru collar shirt, looks out past the microphone and the keyboard he is playing (while playing with Bo Diddley, not in photo) at Roadhouse Ruby's South.
Everette DeVan looks down at a keyboard he plays during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Henry Butler, wearing sunglasses, sits and plays a grand piano during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The stage lights are above his head. The audience is visible between the legs of the...
Henry Clay, wearing a bowler hat, plays a piano with a microphone attached above the keys at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Henry Townsend, face just visible above a piano, wears a ball cap and sings intensely into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jay McShann is laughing so hard his eyes are closed at Grand Emporium. He's wearing a suit and tie and his right suspender is visible under his suit jacket. The wall decorations are visible behind him...
Johnnie Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at Roadhouse Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, wearing an Irish cap and a piano lapel pin, looks seriously and tight-lipped to his left.
Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, smiles from behind a microphone at Blayney's.
Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, sings into a microphone as he plays a keyboard during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. He's facing to the photographer's right.
Lawrence Wright of the band The Outlets, smiles down at the photographer while wearing a suit with a musical staff tie, at the Grand Emporium during the Kansas City Blues Society May Jam.
Lawrence Wright stands behind a keyboard, looking straight at the photographer, and lays his left hand over his heart as he holds a plaque high with his right hand at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
Luqman Hamza, back to the photographer, sits at a Yamaha piano and looks over his right shoulder to sing into the microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Luqman Hamza plays the piano, sitting sideways to the photographer's right at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine.
Luqman Hamza looks to his right and smiles at the photographer as his hands play the keys of a piano at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
Pinetop Perkins, one of the national acts to record at Blue Heaven Studios, wearing a pilot's hat smiles to his left by the microphone.
Pinetop Perkins, from the left, sits on stage at a grand piano, wearing a bowler hat while he performs at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The audience is visible between the legs of the piano...
Pinetop Perkins, wearing a bowler hat, smiles at the photographer as he sits at a piano during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Ray Charles, wearing sunglasses, faces a microphone in front of him. One of the national acts at the Kansas City Music Hall.
Rosco Gordon, wearing a leather flat cap, a leather jacket with fringe, and leather pants, smiles down at his hands while playing a grand piano during the 4th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at...
Roy Searcy, wearing a pinstripe suit and a fedora hat, grins at the photographer with a cake in front of him that has written in frosting, "God Bless You Roy - Kansas City Loves You Happy 81 Birthday"...
