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.
Bobby Womack at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Bobby Womack, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Boozoo Chavis at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Boozoo Chavis, wearing a cowboy hat, looks down at the microphone as he plays the accordion during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Clarence Gatemouth Brown at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Clarence Gatemouth Brown, wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, from his left side, smiles as he bows a violin during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. There is an eagle embroidered on the collar of...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a checked suit, looks down as he plays a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador plaque at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Fest. Blanche...
David "Honeyboy" Edwards at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
David "Honeyboy" Edwards grins over the microphone as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. He's wearing a Maverick Musical Occasions t-shirt and a Y2K ball cap.
Eddie Saunders and Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Eddie Saunders, holding his saxophone on his lap and Sonny Kenner playing a guitar, put their heads together and smile while performing at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Eddie Saunders at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Eddie Saunders, wearing a beret, blows into a saxophone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Eugene Smiley at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Eugene Smiley looks mischievously at the photographer as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Fathead Newman at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
David "Fathead" Newman stands and blows into a tenor saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Glen Therman at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Glen Therman, wearing a perspiration soaked shirt and a flat cap, looks intensely to his left as he plays a bass during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Henry Butler at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
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 Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Henry Townsend at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
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.
Hubert Sumlin at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Hubert Sumlin, wearing a fedora with a striped hatband and sunglasses, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar as he performs during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Ike Turner at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Ike Turner grins as he plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Illinois Jacquet at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Illinois Jacquet, wearing a checked suit jacket, profile of his left side, holds a tenor saxophone and snaps his fingers during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jimmy D. Lane at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Jimmy D. Lane, wearing a cowboy hat, looks over his left shoulder as he tunes his guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jimmy Lee Robinson at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Jimmy Lee Robinson, wearing a cowboy hat and a bolo tie, looks down and sad behind a microphone as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Joshua Nelson at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Joshua Nelson smiles as he holds a microphone in his right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Kermit Ruffins at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Kermit Ruffins, wearing a fedora, from his right side, blows into a trumpet lifted high during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Lawrence Wright receives the lifetime achievement award at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
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...
Lionel Young at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Lionel Young, wearing a straw cowboy hat, sunglasses, and beads in his hair, sings into a microphone and plucks a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Little Milton Campbell at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Little Milton Campbell, rolling his top lip over his lower lip, as he plays an electric guitar during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.