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...
Dr. John, one of the national acts to perform at the Kansas City Spirit Festival, wearing a fedora, sits at a piano fitted with a microphone and looks to his right to smile directly at the...
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.
Gene Taylor, one of the national acts to perform at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, wearing a baseball cap, leans forward over the piano that he is playing.
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.
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 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...
Leon Russell, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from his left, wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, looks down at the keyboard as he plays.
Leonard Ladd of the Roland Allen Band, wearing an Otis Spann t-shirt, sticks his tongue out and looks at the keys as he concentrates on playing a keyboard at the Grand Emporium during the KCBS April...
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"...
Roy Searcy, right side to the camera, wearing a fedora and a pinstripe suit, is smiling to his right towards a microphone as he plays a piano during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Roy Searcy salutes with his right hand from the brim of his Fedora hat in a striped suit at the Living Blues Party in the Gem Theater at 18th & Vine. He is facing to the photographer's left.
