Pearl Thuston Brown sits in the audience wearing a fur hat and clapping her hands at the Mutual Musicians Foundation building listening to Toni Oliver sing as a band back her up at the Jay McShann...
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...
Renee Satterwhite, wearing a silk print shirt, looks down at the neck of a guitar as she plays at the Grand Emporium.
Ronnie McFadden stands blowing into the saxophone in a suit at Crown Center.
Roy Searcy leans on the piano with his hands crossed so that his face is visible between the keyboard and the lifted lid at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. He wears a hat with a slim metal band.
Rusty Tucker closes his eyes as he blows into a trumpet at Unity Temple on the Plaza. The photograph is from the elbows up.
Rusty Tucker, his right side to the camera, blows into a muted trumpet with his cheeks bulged out and his eyes closed at the Unity Temple on the Plaza.
Sandy Brown, from her right, plays a piano with her mouth to a microphone during the 2nd Annual Kansas City Blues Society Acoustic Showcase at B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ.
Scamps on stage at Crown Center ready to play, a large decorative snowflake behind them: Lucky Wesley playing the upright bass; Henry Hoard sitting and holding an alto saxophone; Rusty Tucker seated...
Scamps at playing on a stage at Unity Temple on the Plaza: Art Jackson and Eddie Saunders, seated with their eyes closed playing their saxophones; Lucky Wesley looking to his right and smiling as he...
Sonny Kenner, looks down at the neck of the guitar he's playing during the Living Blues Party Gem, Theater. The guitar is scratched and worn. Sonny wears a suit with an open-collar shirt.
Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda Shell gather together at noon on the steps of the...
Tim Perryman, wearing a striped suit with wide lapels, blows into a trombone at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams; 93rd birthday party.
Tyrone Clark stands with his right side facing the photographer as he plucks the upright bass at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday party.
Tyrone Cox, wearing a Mutual Musicians T-shirt, looks to his left as he plucks the guitar at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
Wallace Jones' left side, eyes closed, as he plays the drums at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
The Wild Women: Myra Taylor, Lori Tucker, and Millie Edwards with Bill Maness; stand around a seated Wild Woman, Geneva Price, as they all smile directly at the photographer.
The Wild Women: Mary Moore, Myra Taylor, Millie Edwards, and Geneva Price sit close together and smile at the photographer at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
