Janiva Magness, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, laughs as she sings into a microphone she is holding in her left hand.
Jason Willming, wearing a suit, tie, and flat cap, closes his eye as he plays an electric guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Mutual Musicians Foundation Landmark Ceremony: Jay McShann sitting, smiling and playing the piano, facing left to the camera, a cane hanging over the keyboards and a microphone to Jay's right.
Jay McShann is laughing so hard his eyes are closed at Grand Emporium. He's wearing a suit and tie and his right suspender is visible under his suit jacket. The wall decorations are visible behind him...
Jay McShann is standing between the piano bench and the piano, smiling and taking a bow outdoors at the Kansas City Spirit Festival. Gerald Spaits, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Will Matthews stand to Jay's...
Amy, Jay McShann's granddaughter, plays the saxophone with another unidentified African American man at the Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Jay McShann Wake. An unidentified woman stands behind...
Jeff Jones looks at the photographer as he plays the keytar at the Grand Emporium.
Jessie Mae Hemphill, wearing an elaborate cutwork jacket and a bejeweled cap, smiles over her left shoulder at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blue Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase...
Jim Maier closes his eyes and blows into a tenor saxophone during Battle of the Saxes at the Grand Emporium.
Jim O'Neal, in front of shelves of books at KC Public Downtown Library, smiles toward the photographers.
Jim O'Neal, James Fraher, and Dawayne Gilley hold The Big Picture which is a photograph from September 18, 1999, of the Kansas City Jazz and Blues people in front of the Mutual Musician Foundation...
Jimmie Vaughan, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes and grimaces as he plays an electric guitar.
Jimmie Vaughan holds his mouth wide open and his eyes closed as he plays guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jimmy Carpenter, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing sunglasses, leans over and blows into a baritone saxophone.
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, 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.
Jimmy Thackery, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of a guitar that he is playing.
Jimmy Way, of the Chris Duarte Group, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stares intently straight ahead as he plays a cymbal on the drum set he is playing. Locks of hair stick...
Joanna Connor, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles over her right shoulder as she plays an electric guitar.
Joe Bonamassa, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grits his teeth as he plays a Flying V electric guitar.
Joe Cartwright turns his head to his left to look at the photographer at Crown Center. The corner of the piano is visible in the foreground.
Joe Louis Walker, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, lifts his head and smiles as he plays an electric guitar.
John Albertson, weekend bartender, smiles at the photographer from behind the bar at the Grand Emporium.
John Bridgewater wearing a fedora, leather vest, and an animal print shirt, looks down at his hands as he sweats and plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.
John Cutler of the band Parlay, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, head wrapped in a bandana, watches his hand on the neck of an electric bass that he is playing.
