Allen Monroe at the Kansas City, KS Blues Street Fest
Allen Monroe, keyboards reflected in the lenses of his glasses, wears a Vietnam veteran ball cap and looks directly at the photographer with a microphone to the left of his face at the Kansas City, KS...
DownBeat Magazine shoot at Mutual Musicians Foundation
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...
Elder Statesmen of KC Jazz at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
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...
Everett Freeman, Jr. at the piano in the Blue Room
Everett Freeman, Jr. sitting sideways to the piano and smiling at the photographer with his left elbow resting on the keyboard at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine.
Everette DeVan and Eddie Saunders play
Everette DeVan plays the piano as Eddie Saunders plays the saxophone at the Board of Directors Inauguration, Mutual Musicians Foundation. Both are seated with their back to a wood paneled wall. Both...
Everette DeVan at Roadhouse Ruby's South
Everette DeVan, wearing a Nehru collar shirt, looks out past the microphone and the keyboard he is playing (while playing with Bo Diddley, not in photo) at Roadhouse Ruby's South.
Everette DeVan at the Gem Theater
Everette DeVan looks down at a keyboard he plays during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Everette DeVan performing at Mutual Musicians Foundation
Everette DeVan's left side as he smiles down at his hands on the keys of a piano at the Board of Directors Inauguration at Mutual Musicians Foundation building. Carl Fusaro's left side is also visible...
Gerald Dunn, Luqman Hamza, and Geneva Price at the Blue Room
Gerald Dunn is blowing into an alto saxophone as he looks at Geneva Price. Luqman Hamza is playing a piano behind Geneva and turning his head to the right to look at the photographer. Geneva is...
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.
Jay McShann at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004
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.
Jay McShann laughing so hard his eyes are closed
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 listens to Allen Monroe play the piano at the Jackson County 175 Anniversary Awards
Allen Monroe, facing to the right of the photographer, plays a white console piano with his left foot crossed over his right knee, wearing a Fair Isle sweater as Jay McShann looks on seated at a table...
Jay McShann taking a bow at the KC Spirit Fest
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...
Jay McShann's granddaughter plays at Jay's wake
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...
Lawrence Wright at the Gem Theater
Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, sings into a microphone as he plays a keyboard during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. He's facing to the photographer's right.
Luqman Hamza at the Gem Theater
Luqman Hamza, back to the photographer, sits at a Yamaha piano and looks over his right shoulder to sing into the microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Luqman Hamza at the piano in the Blue Room
Luqman Hamza plays the piano, sitting sideways to the photographer's right at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine.
Luqman Hamza performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza
Luqman Hamza looks to his right and smiles at the photographer as his hands play the keys of a piano at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
Oliver Todd, Ben Kynard, Carl Fusaro, Henry Hoard, Marcellus Lee and Elmer Price perform at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
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...
Pat and Donald Cox perform at Mutual Musicians Foundation
Pat Cox holds a mike to her face and looks right at the photographer as Donald Cox looks down at a keyboard at Mutual Musicians Foundation.
Pearl Thuston Brown plays at Mutual Musicians Foundation
Pearl Thuston Brown plays the piano wearing a fur hat with Tyrone Clark playing bass behind her. An unidentified man sits behind them at the Mutual Musicians Foundation building for the Jay McShann...
Performing at Jay McShann's Jam
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...
Roy Searcy at Mutual Musicians Foundation
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.