Betty Crow Collection

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. They are playing bass, piano, trumpet, and drums. The musicians are standing on a stage in front of red curtains.

Unidentified musicians performing on stage on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. They are playing piano, trombone, saxophone, trumpet, bass, and drums. They are on a stage under red lights in front of...

Unidentified musicians performing on stage on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. They are playing piano, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, and guitar. They are on a stage under red lights in front of a...

Unidentified musicians performing on stage on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. They are playing piano, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, and guitar. They are on a stage under red lights in front of a...

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Seven musicians are standing or sitting with drums, saxophone, trumpet, and violin. They are on a stage in front of dark...

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Nine musicians are playing piano, vibraphone, bass, trumpet, saxophone, and trombone. They are on a stage in front of dark...

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three men are playing bass, trumpet, and drums. They are on a stage in front of dark curtains.

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. A woman is playing trombone into a microphone. Six other musicians are standing and sitting around her holding saxophones. They...

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Four musicians are playing bass, trumpet, and drums. They are on a stage in front of a dark curtain.

Unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Four men are playing saxophone, bass, trumpet, and drums. They are on a stage with a cityscape backdrop.

Five unidentified musicians performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. They are playing trombone, trumpet, and saxophones. They are standing behind a row of music stands on a small stage with a...

Unidentified musicians rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified musicians are singing and playing vibraphone, drums, bass, and trumpet in a room with...

Unidentified musicians rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified musicians are singing, playing drums, bass, and trumpet in a room with barren white...

Unidentified musicians rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified musicians are playing vibraphone, bass, and trumpet in a room with barren white walls.

Unidentified musicians rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified musicians are playing bass and trumpet in a room with barren white walls.

Unidentified musicians rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified musicians are singing and playing vibraphone, drums, bass, and trumpet in a room with...

Unidentified musicians rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified musicians are singing and playing vibraphone, drums, bass, and trumpet in a room with...

An unidentified person playing trumpet at an event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Another musician is standing on the right holding music under one arm.

Walter Page's Blue Devils band posing for a photo in the recording studio of radio station KFJF in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From left to right: Oran "Lips" Page (trumpet), Henry "Buster" Smith (alto...

Wayne Ruppenthal playing trumpet at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Ruppenthal is looking forward as he plays. Other people are sitting around the stage. Various...

WPA dance band in front of an unidentified building in Kansas City, Missouri. Fifteen unidentified men are standing on a porch outside a building holding their instruments, including trumpets...