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...
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.
Bob Enos, of the band Roomful of Blues, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, shrugs his shoulders and smiles as he cringes and holds a trumpet in his right hand.
Boney Fields, one the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a bowler hat, blows into a trumpet he holds with a handkerchief.
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...
George Robinson, of the band Simplexity, wearing a ball cap with a "G" on it, closes his eyes as he blows into a trumpet in front of a microphone at the Levee.
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...
John Wier looks at the center of a trumpet as he performs at the Grand Emporium.
Kermit Ruffins, wearing a fedora, from his right side, blows into a trumpet lifted high during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Lester "Duck" Warner sit and plays a trumpet in a fedora hat in front of a drum set at Mississippi Graces in Kansas City, KS.
Lester "Duck" Warner, wearing a fedora and a bead necklace, blows into a trumpet at a microphone at the Grand Emporium. The photograph includes Lester from the chest up.
Lonnie McFadden blows into a trumpet he is holding with a handkerchief. His eyes are closed and he is facing to the left of the photographer. A crowd is visible seated behind Lonnie wearing a tuxedo...
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 outlines his face with the back of his hands as he rests his elbows on a table at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
Oliver Todd rests the left side of his face on his folded hands at a table at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
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...
Pat Morrissey looks down as he holds a trumpet vertical to his chest with a handkerchief in his left hand, but the mouthpiece on his lips, as his right hand reaches for the bell of the trumpet at...
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...
Shawn Cassidy looks over the bell of a trumpet he is playing at the Grand Emporium.
Wayne Jackson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks straight ahead as he holds a trumpet high that he blows into.
