Betty Crow Collection

Diane "Mama" Ray and Big John Amaro performing at an event. Ray is looking to the side and smiling while holding a cigarette in her hand. Amaro is sitting at a keyboard with a microphone on top. Two...

Diane "Mama" Ray and Tom DeMasters performing at the Blue Note Café in Kansas City, Missouri. Ray is singing into a microphone in one hand. DeMasters is playing guitar and looking up at Ray. They are...

Diane "Mama" Ray performing at an event. She is closing her eyes while singing into a microphone in her hand. Billie G. Moore, Jr. is dancing in front of her. With an unidentified woman. They are in a...

Diane "Mama" Ray, Big John Amaro, and an unidentified man performing at an event. Ray is looking to the side and smiling while holding a microphone in her hand. Amaro is sitting at a keyboard in back...

Doug Auwarter and Kevin Mahogany performing at the Blue Note Café in Kansas City, Missouri. Auwarter is looking to the side while playing drums. Mahogany is wearing a blue suit and singing into a...

Dr. John performing at the Liberty Memorial Jazz Festival. Big John Amaro is playing piano while singing into a microphone. Several unidentified musicians are playing saxophone behind stands with...

Duke Samuels playing bass at a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. Samuels is wearing a gray jacket and looking down while he plays.

Dwight Foster and Al "Delightful De" Bartee with unidentified performers at an event at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Foster and Bartee are standing in the center back wearing tuxedos...

Dwight Foster and Al "Delightful De" Bartee performing at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Foster is looking forward while playing saxophone. Bartee is looking to the side while playing...

Dwight Foster and Al "Delightful De" Bartee performing at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Foster is looking to the side while playing saxophone. Bartee is looking to the side while...

Dwight Foster playing saxophone at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Ned White is standing in back, wearing a green shirt. Mike Ning is behind foster, playing piano...

Dwight Foster with unidentified performers at an event at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Foster is standing far left wearing a tuxedo. Four unidentified people are posing for a photo and...

Eddie Saunders and Jim Mair performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Saunders is wearing sunglasses and looking to the side while holding a saxophone. Mair is looking at Saunders...

Eddie Saunders and Jim Mair performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Saunders is wearing sunglasses and looking up while playing an alto saxophone. Mair is looking down while...

Eddie Saunders and Rusty Tucker performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Saunders is singing into a microphone in one hand and holding a saxophone in another hand. Tucker is...

Elbert "Coots" Dye and Milt Abel performing at an unidentified event. Dye is sitting at a piano and smiling while playing. Abel is playing bass in back. Both are wearing tuxedos and are in a room with...

Elbert "Coots" Dye and Milt Abel performing at an unidentified event. Dye is sitting at a piano and smiling in front of a microphone. Abel is playing bass in back. Both are wearing tuxedos and are in...

Elsa Hart and Billie G. Moore, Jr., at an outdoor event. They are sitting in folding chairs on a lawn in front of other people sitting or walking around the lawn. Hart is looking to the left and Moore...

Elsa Hart dancing at an outdoor party at Betty Crow's house. Hart is dancing with an unidentified man while looking up and smiling. Several unidentified musicians are sitting behind a piano.

Elsa Hart, Al "Delightful De" Bartee, an unidentified woman, and Billie G. Moore, Jr., sitting at a table with drinks. Hart is talking to Bartee and Moore is looking forward while raising a drink and...

Elsa Hart, Betty Crow, Milt Abel II, Milt Abel, and Chloe Abel sitting left to right during a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. Everyone is looking up and smiling. They...

Elsa Hart, Billie G. Moore, Jr., and an unidentified woman at the Liberty Memorial Jazz Festival. All three are looking forward and smiling. They are sitting in folding chairs in front of others also...

Everett Freeman and Tyrone Clark performing on the Missouri River Queen Jazz Cruise. Freeman is playing a keyboard while looking down. Clark is playing bass while standing and looking forward. They...

Everette DeVan and an unidentified woman performing at a Halloween event for the Mutual Musicians Foundation. The woman is singing into a microphone in her hand. DeVan is playing piano in back. Orange...

Everette DeVan performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. DeVan is looking down while playing piano. He is on a stage in front of a an audio mixing board.