Myra Taylor, Ben Kynard and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
Myra Taylor wearing a fur lined cap and eyeglasses hanging from a necklace around her neck smiles with her hand around the shoulder of a seated Lionel Hampton. Lionel's mouth is open and he's looking...
Myra Taylor, Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore sing
Myra Taylor seated and Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore standing beside Myra all singing into two microphones at the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th & Woodland.
Myra Taylor, Lydia, Chad and Jasmin Kassem at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008
Lydia Kassem stands behind as Chad Kassem kneels beside, holding Jasmin Kassem, Myra Taylor all dressed up and sitting in a wheelchair during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. All are...
Myra Taylor, Tim Whitmer, Kim Park, Carl Bender, James Albright and Jürgen Welge at Unity Temple on the Plaza
Myra Taylor sits in a wheelchair as Tim Whitmer sits behind her, Kim Park stands behind Tim Whitmer with his hands on Tim's shoulders, Carl Bender stands behind Kim Park and James Albright, James...
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 at Knuckleheads
Pearl Thuston Brown sits and plays a keyboard as she sings into the microphone at Knuckleheads. A drum set and equipment are visible behind her. She is facing to the photographers left.
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...
Peggy Scott Adams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Peggy Scott Adams, wearing an Asian inspired blouse, stands facing the photographer, mouth wide open, with the microphone held low by her right side during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. A...
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...
Phillip Walker and Myra Taylor at Knuckleheads Saloon
Phillip Walker, one of the national acts to perform at Knuckleheads Saloon, wearing a flat cap, hugs his electric guitar on his lap and leans toward Myra Taylor who is also seated and is singing into...
Raindogs and Saffire the Uppity Blues Women
Raindogs & Saffire the Uppity Blues Women, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand in a group grinning at the photographer are Jim Herbert, Gaye Adegbalola, Phil Smith, Mike Roark...
Ramonda Doakes and Donald Byrd at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
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...
Ray Charles and Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Music Hall
Ray Charles, an overcoat draped over his shoulders, looks at the floor to his right as he shakes the hand of a seated Myra Taylor who is wearing a sparkling fez-type cap. They were one of the national...
Renee Satterwhite at the Grand Emporium
Renee Satterwhite, wearing a silk print shirt, looks down at the neck of a guitar as she plays at the Grand Emporium.
Robert Lockwood, Jr. at the W.C. Handy Awards
Robert Lockwood Jr., wearing a fedora, listens intently to an unidentified African American woman across the table from him. An unidentified African American man is to Robert's right, facing right, on...
Rosie Ledet at the Grand Emporium
Rosie Ledet, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles at the photographer as she plays an accordion that is fully stretched out.
Sandra Hall at the Grand Emporium
Sandra Hall, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks pensively at her praying hands as her hands hold a glittery shawl.
Sandy Brown at B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ
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.
Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks, one of the national acts at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Ronnie Baker Brooks, wearing a baseball cap with Jimi Hendrix Experience embroidered on the...
Shemekia Copeland at the Grand Emporium
Shemekia Copeland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, pouts her lips with smiling eyes as she looks over her left shoulder and holds a microphone chest high in her right hand.
Sista Monica at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Sista Monica's lips are puckered as she points to herself with her left hand and holds a microphone in her right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. She's wearing sunglasses.
Sweet Betty Echols at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Sweet Betty Echols, looking serious, sings into a microphone she hold in her right hand at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Thornetta Davis at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Thornetta Davis stands and looks to her right as she sings, wide mouthed, into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Wild Women and Bill Maness
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.
Wild Women and Bill Maness at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006
The Wild Women including Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards, and Myra Taylor, sit on stage in chairs singing into microphones under posters of festival kings while Bill Maness plays a keyboard...