Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. Adam Page is visible behind...
Al Pearson, wearing a dark suit, closes his eyes and blows into a trumpet during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. Curtains are visible in the background.
Al Pearson, wearing an earring and blowing into a flugelhorn at the Jazz Carol Festival at the Community Christian Church.
Elder Statesmen of KC Jazz including Oliver Todd sitting at the piano on the far left of the photograph, then Ben Kynard blowing into a saxophone seated in front of the piano, then Henry Hoard looking...
George Robinson, of the band Simplexity, wearing a ball cap with a "G" on it, closes his eyes as he blows into a trumpet in front of a microphone at the Levee.
Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a microphone. Ben Kynard and an unidentified...
Kermit Ruffins, wearing a fedora, from his right side, blows into a trumpet lifted high during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Lester "Duck" Warner sit and plays a trumpet in a fedora hat in front of a drum set at Mississippi Graces in Kansas City, KS.
Lester "Duck" Warner, wearing a fedora and a bead necklace, blows into a trumpet at a microphone at the Grand Emporium. The photograph includes Lester from the chest up.
Lonnie McFadden blows into a trumpet he is holding with a handkerchief. His eyes are closed and he is facing to the left of the photographer. A crowd is visible seated behind Lonnie wearing a tuxedo...
Marilyn Maye bends to speak with Lonnie McFadden and Ronnie McFadden, the McFadden Brothers, at Club 427 in Kansas City, MO. Ronnie and Lonnie are looking up at Marilyn as they sit at a table behind...
Oliver Todd outlines his face with the back of his hands as he rests his elbows on a table at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
Oliver Todd rests the left side of his face on his folded hands at a table at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
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...
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...
Rusty Tucker closes his eyes as he blows into a trumpet at Unity Temple on the Plaza. The photograph is from the elbows up.
Rusty Tucker, his right side to the camera, blows into a muted trumpet with his cheeks bulged out and his eyes closed at the Unity Temple on the Plaza.
Scamps at playing on a stage at Unity Temple on the Plaza: Art Jackson and Eddie Saunders, seated with their eyes closed playing their saxophones; Lucky Wesley looking to his right and smiling as he...
