Evie Quarles Collection

Ann Rabson looks out over the keyboard she is playing and sings into a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. A drum set and a brick wall are visible behind her.

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...