Guy Forsyth, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks intensely forward as he sings into a microphone and plays a dobro.
Hal Melia closes his eyes, bends slightly forward, and blows into a tenor saxophone at the Battle of the Saxes in the Grand Emporium.
Hamilton Loomis, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from below, grimaces as he plays an electric guitar.
Hank Walther, of the band Roomful of Blues, one to the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora, leans over a keyboard he is playing and looks seriously at his hands on the...
Harry Hypolite sits in the middle of the 39th Street Blues Band in a double-breasted white suit and satin Nehru collar shirt, wearing a cap, in the Blue Room, 18th & Vine. Big John [Amaro] stands...
Harry Ware, wearing a striped suit, smiles with his head turned to his right at the photographer as he plays a piano at American Heartland Theater.
Hawkeye Herman, one of the national acts to perform at Or Hadash in Overland Park, KS, closes his eyes and grimaces as he plays an acoustic guitar.
Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Herb Palmer shakes Roger Naber's hand during the 20th anniversary celebration of one of the juke joints in Kansas City called the Grand Emporium. Roger wears a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and...
A white male member of the blues band, Hipnotics, sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the national acts to perform during the Acoustic Blues Showcase at BB's Lawnside BBQ, wearing a baseball cap, sits among the audience of mostly white men as he sings...
James Albright bowing an upright bass, lips tightly pressed, eyes toward the floor in front of the bass, wearing an argyle sweater as he performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
James Albright looks seriously at the neck of a bass guitar as he stands in front of a microphone wearing headphones at the Myra Taylor recording session at Airborne Audio Productions.
James Fraher, wearing a ball cap and holding a camera to his face, is not visible behind the camera during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
James Fraher looks down at a camera he's setting up on a tripod in the doorway of the Mutual Musicians Foundation for the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot.
James Fraher, Ramonda Doakes. John Brisbin, Dawayne Gilley stand arm in arm in the doorway of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, 1823 Highland Avenue to participate in the Living Blues Weekend Photo...
James Harman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone he's standing behind.
James Harman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from below, he closes his eyes and scrunches his face as he blows into an amplified harmonica he clutches in both of his hands.
James Solberg from below, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a tiger-print hat, leopard print ascot, and sunglasses, opens his mouth wide as he plays an electric guitar...
Jason Willming, wearing a suit, tie, and flat cap, closes his eye as he plays an electric guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Jerry Portnoy, part of the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, looks down intensely as he plays an amplified harmonica at the Carlsen Center in Johnson County Community College.
Jim Herbert of the blues bands, Rain Dogs, wears a fedora and suspenders as he concentrates on the neck of a guitar as he plays.
Jim Maier closes his eyes and blows into a tenor saxophone during Battle of the Saxes at the Grand Emporium.
Jim O'Neal, in front of shelves of books at KC Public Downtown Library, smiles toward the photographers.
Jim O'Neal, James Fraher, and Dawayne Gilley hold The Big Picture which is a photograph from September 18, 1999, of the Kansas City Jazz and Blues people in front of the Mutual Musician Foundation...
