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...
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.
A bass player stands in the corner of the Mutual Musicians Foundation wearing a straw hat and looking down at the bass. Luqman Hamza sits at the piano smiling down to his left. Karrin Allyson share...
Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the bench but sitting on the arm of the bench with...
Dwight Jenkins, part of the Sonny Kenner Band, wears an flat cap, plays a drum set, and sings into a microphone on his left at the Mill Creek Brewery.
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...
Elija Frazer looks directly at the photographer as he plays a drum set wearing a tuxedo and smoking a pipe during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Frank "Iron Jaw" Oakley, L.C. Gant, and Dawayne Gilley are smiling at the photographer from their seats during the Kansas City Blues Society's 20th Anniversary at the Grand Emporium. The crowd is...
Harold Brown, of the Same Ole Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, happily opens his mouth wide and looks out over a drum set he is playing while he plays a shaker in this...
Jaisson Taylor, wearing a dragon-print shirt, smiles at the photographer as he plays a drum set at the Grand Emporium.
Jassion Taylor looks intently at a drum set he sits behind during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Spoon Wilson and D.C. Bellamy, standing wearing beefeater costumes, and an unidentified African American woman, have crowned Little Hatch the king during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival...
Larry Garner, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified white male keyboard player, and a drummer, and an African American male...
LC Gant, wearing a flat cap, smiles and looks above his glasses over his right shoulder as he plays a drum set at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside on steps and smile at the photographer.
Lil Brother's face with a pipe in his mouth and wearing a jacket is seated at the drum set at the Grand Emporium.
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...
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...
Phil Callier and the Jhamm Band, with John Wier on trumpet, stand in front of a wall of graffiti at the Grand Emporium.
Phil Callier, wearing a fedora and suit vest, lifts his chin and laughs as he plays a drum set at the Grand Emporium.
The Scamps on stage at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Fest in 2004. Lucky Wesley is standing on the right side of a stage, smiling, wearing a French cap, and holding a plaque that reads, "Kansas...
Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon stand side by side with their arms around each other smiling at the photographer in front of the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, MO.
Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in front of the bar and smile at the photographer.
Spoon Wilson, wearing a fedora and a sleeveless tank undershirt, grimaces as he plays a set of drums during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Wallace Jones' left side, eyes closed, as he plays the drums at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
