Evie Quarles Collection

This collection consists of 866 images captured by Kansas City-based blues and jazz photographer, Evie Quarles. Quarles provided annotations for the photographs, identifying people, place, date, and event, rendering the collection highly discoverable to researchers.

Items in Collection: 866

Topics

Jazz, Big Band, & Music Industry

Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

Bobby Watson, looking directly at the photographer, blows into a microphoned alto saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published

2001-07-20

Bobby Watson blows into an alto saxophone that has a microphone in front of it during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published

2003-06-28

Bobby Watson holds an alto saxophone and smiles to his left at Claude "Fiddler" Williams closing his eyes and playing the fiddle at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, for Fiddler's 93rd Birthday Party. The...

Date Published

2001-02-19

Bobby Watson, facing to the right of the photographer, blows into a saxophone at the Battle of the Saxes in the Grand Emporium.

Date Published

2000-08-17

Digital Collections

Bobby Watson at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Bobby Watson at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2003

Bobby Watson helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 93rd birthday

Bobby Watson in the Battle of the Saxes

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives