Eugene Smiley looks mischievously at the photographer as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
David "Fathead" Newman stands and blows into a tenor saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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.
Harry Hypolite, wearing a Kufi hat, leans back as he plays guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. A profile shadow is visible behind him.
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 sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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.
Henry Townsend, wearing a bowler hat, suit and striped shoes, sits and looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Marquise Knox stands on stage behind...
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 grins as he plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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.
Iron Jaw Oakley, wearing a fedora and an open shirt, holds a cigarette between his lips and a harmonica in his right hand beside a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
J.J. Johnson, wearing a bowler hat and a diamond "J" necklace, closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Jassion Taylor looks intently at a drum set he sits behind during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano playing for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
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 D. Lane, wearing a cowboy hat and a guitar on the state of Mississippi necklace, seriously looks forward as he plays the guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues 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.
Jimmie Lee Robinson closes his eyes and purses his lips as he plays guitar at Club Paradox during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
John Wilson, wearing an "all star DAD" ball cap and overalls, sings into a microphone he holds in his right hand during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Joshua Nelson smiles as he holds a microphone in his right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Keb Mo, wearing a fedora, scrunches his face as he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
Kermit Ruffins, wearing a fedora, from his right side, blows into a trumpet lifted high during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
King Alex, wearing an Irish cap, looks down at the guitar neck as he sits and plays during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Parts of two other band musicians are visible behind him.
King Clarentz, wearing a headband, Dashiki, knee-high laced boots with jeans tucked into the boots, smiles from his seat on stage as he plays an electric guitar during Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
