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, wearing a straw hat, looks out as he plays a guitar at the Club Mardi Gras, 19th & Vine, in Kansas City, Missouri.
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...
Bill Carter's Blues Revue, a blues band, sit or stand in front of a wall of signatures and smile or look solemnly at the photographer at the Grand Emporium.
Bill Perry, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a straw hat and overalls, closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar.
Bill Stuve's head and hands, a member of the band, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks seriously to his left at the neck of a string bass...
Billy Boy Arnold, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sits at the bar next to the owner, Roger Naber. Both smile at the photographer.
Billy Lee Lewis of the Tommy Castro Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, opens his mouth wide when he looks to his left and plays a drum set.
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, 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.
Blaze, makes fists, purses her lips and dances during the KC Blues and Jazz After Fest Jam 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.
Bob Bowman, wearing a suit and tie, studies the fingers of his left hand as they suppress the strings of a bass he is playing during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. A microphone stand is...
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.
Bob Margolin sits and sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, while he plays a microphoned slide dobro guitar. Charlie Musselwhite is seated to Bob's left playing the harmonica during the Kansas...
Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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 Carson looks serious as he holds an electric guitar high on his chest and watches the fingers of his left hand on the neck of the guitar as he plays at the Grand Emporium.
Bobby Watson, wearing a fedora and suspenders, closes his eyes as he plays an alto saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Bobby Watson, facing to the right of the photographer, blows into a saxophone at the Battle of the Saxes in the Grand Emporium.
Bobby Womack, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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.
Boozoo Chavis, wearing a cowboy hat, looks down at the microphone as he plays the accordion during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Brad Andrew of the Marcia Ball Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes as he blows into a tenor saxophone at a microphone.
Bram Wijnands, wearing a tux, sits at a keyboard with a microphone at his face with a sequin curtain behind him at the Hurricane:
