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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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...
Rosco Gordon, wearing leather pants, leather fringed jacket, and a flat cap, stands and sings into a microphone to the right of Duke Robillard, who is smiling as he plays an electric guitar during the...
Rosco Gordon, wearing a leather flat cap, a leather jacket with fringe, and leather pants, smiles down at his hands while playing a grand piano during the 4th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at...
Roy Searcy, wearing a pinstripe suit and a fedora hat, grins at the photographer with a cake in front of him that has written in frosting, "God Bless You Roy - Kansas City Loves You Happy 81 Birthday"...
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.
Roy Searcy, right side to the camera, wearing a fedora and a pinstripe suit, is smiling to his right towards a microphone as he plays a piano during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Roy Searcy salutes with his right hand from the brim of his Fedora hat in a striped suit at the Living Blues Party in the Gem Theater at 18th & Vine. He is facing to the photographer's left.
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.
Scamps on stage at Crown Center ready to play, a large decorative snowflake behind them: Lucky Wesley playing the upright bass; Henry Hoard sitting and holding an alto saxophone; Rusty Tucker seated...
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...
Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda Shell gather together at noon on the steps of the...
