Bruce Katz plays a grand piano with his head drawn back while Carey Bell blows into an amplified harmonica that he clutches in his hands at the 4th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue...
Dr. John, one of the national acts to perform at the Kansas City Spirit Festival, wearing a fedora, sits at a piano fitted with a microphone and looks to his right to smile directly at the...
Eddie Tigner looks out over the piano where he's seated at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Eddie Tigner, wearing a Route 66 ball cap, looks seriously out over a microphone while he plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Gene Taylor, one of the national acts to perform at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, wearing a baseball cap, leans forward over the piano that he is playing.
Henry Clay, wearing a bowler hat, plays a piano with a microphone attached above the keys at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
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.
Jay McShann, wearing a baseball cap, smiles to his left as Evie Quarles leans towards his left shoulder during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival. Evie's glass rest on the top of her head.
Johnnie Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at Roadhouse Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, wearing an Irish cap and a piano lapel pin, looks seriously and tight-lipped to his left.
Kelley Hunt and Johnnie Johnson were a national act that performed at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS. Kelley Hunt sings into a microphone as she stands behind and looking at Johnnie Johnson playing the...
King Alex Littlejohn smiles proudly wearing a pinstripe, double-breasted suit next to three unidentified band members. One member wears a large cross necklace, one wears a fedora, and one sits playing...
Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, smiles from behind a microphone at Blayney's.
Lawrence Wright of the band The Outlets, smiles down at the photographer while wearing a suit with a musical staff tie, at the Grand Emporium during the Kansas City Blues Society May Jam.
Lawrence Wright stands behind a keyboard, looking straight at the photographer, and lays his left hand over his heart as he holds a plaque high with his right hand at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
Leon Russell, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from his left, wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, looks down at the keyboard as he plays.
Leonard Ladd of the Roland Allen Band, wearing an Otis Spann t-shirt, sticks his tongue out and looks at the keys as he concentrates on playing a keyboard at the Grand Emporium during the KCBS April...
Pinetop Perkins, wearing a fedora with a flower in the hat band, looks seriously down at the keys he is playing. Bob Margolin wearing sunglasses also looks serious as he stands to Pinetop's left and...
Pinetop Perkins leans toward Evie Quarles, seated to his left as both smile at the photographer during the All Stars Blues Jam at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, KS. Evie's glasses rest on her upper...
Pinetop Perkins, one of the national acts to record at Blue Heaven Studios, wearing a pilot's hat smiles to his left by the microphone.
Pinetop Perkins, from the left, sits on stage at a grand piano, wearing a bowler hat while he performs at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The audience is visible between the legs of the piano...
Pinetop Perkins, wearing a bowler hat, smiles at the photographer as he sits at a piano during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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...
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...
Ray Charles, wearing sunglasses, faces a microphone in front of him. One of the national acts at the Kansas City Music Hall.
Rosco Gordon plays a grand piano and sings into a microphone as Doug James waits, sitting on a high stool at the head of the piano looking down at the floor while holding a baritone saxophone between...
