Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a checked suit, looks down as he plays a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador plaque at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Fest. Blanche...
Cotton Candy at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Cotton Candy, wearing a dramatic hat and looking directly at the photographer, sings into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006
Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An unidentified guitarist is visible behind her.
D.C. Bellamy at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002
D.C. Bellamy, wearing a straw fedora, closes his eyes as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Danny Cox at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004
Danny Cox, wearing a cowboy hat, smiles as he sings into a microphone and plays guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Dave "Snaker" Ray at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Dave "Snaker" Ray sits and seriously looks down to his left past the microphone as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
David "Honeyboy" Edwards grins over the microphone as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. He's wearing a Maverick Musical Occasions t-shirt and a Y2K ball cap.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006
David "Honey Boy" Edwards, wearing a ball cap, sings into a microphone and plays a guitar as he sits on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
David Basse at Rhythm & Ribs
David Basse, wearing a fedora and sunglasses, sits at a drum set as he plays during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
Dennis Binder at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006
Dennis Binder, wearing a fedora, looks to his right, as he sits on stage and plays a keyboard on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Diana Krall at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Diana Krall, wearing sunglasses, behind a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Diunna Greenleaf at Knuckleheads
Diunna Greenleaf grins as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Eddie Saunders and Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Eddie Saunders, holding his saxophone on his lap and Sonny Kenner playing a guitar, put their heads together and smile while performing at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Eddie Saunders at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Eddie Saunders, wearing a beret, blows into a saxophone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Eddie Tigner at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
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.
Eddie Turner at Knuckleheads
Eddie Turner looks up as he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Elvin Bishop at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Elvin Bishop, wearing overalls, looks intently at an electric guitar he's playing during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Ernie Johnson at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004
Ernie Johnston stands on stage playing an electric guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Eugene Smiley at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Eugene Smiley looks mischievously at the photographer as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Fathead Newman at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
David "Fathead" Newman stands and blows into a tenor saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Glen Therman at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Glen Therman, wearing a perspiration soaked shirt and a flat cap, looks intensely to his left as he plays a bass during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Harry Hypolite at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Harry Hypolite, wearing a Kufi hat, leans back as he plays guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. A profile shadow is visible behind him.
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.