Betty Crow Collection

Richard Ross at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Ross is wearing a white blazer and is smiling while talking with various audience members. Tommy Ruskin is standing in...

Richard Ross at the Levee Bar and Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Ross is holding a microphone while singing. Mike Ning is playing piano on the right. Various pictures and trinkets hang...

Richard Ross singing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Ross is holding a microphone and wearing a white blazer. Mike Ning is playing piano behind Ross. Various pictures...

Rick Hendricks and Diane "Mama" Ray performing at an event. Hendricks is looking down and smiling while playing guitar. Ray is bending down in the bottom right corner. They are in a room with white...

Rick Hendricks and Diane "Mama" Ray performing at an event. Hendricks is looking down while playing guitar. Ray is closing her eyes while singing into a microphone in her hand. They are in a room with...

Rick Hendricks and Rusty Tucker performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Hendricks is facing away from the camera and playing guitar in back. Tucker is holding a trumpet in one...

Rick Hendricks and Rusty Tucker performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Hendricks is playing guitar in back. Tucker is holding a trumpet in one hand and singing into a microphone...

Rick Hendricks playing guitar at an event. Hendricks is looking to the side and sitting in front of a drum set. He is in a room with white walls and trellis decorations.

Rick Hendricks, Diane "Mama" Ray, and an unidentified musician performing at an event. Hendricks is playing guitar while looking down. Ray is singing into a microphone while closing her eyes. The...

Rick Venuti speaking or singing on stage with jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Dennis Lucas looking forward and playing...

Ricky Anderson and David Basse performing at Jardine's on Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Anderson is playing bass on the left and Basse is playing drums. They are on a stage in front of a wall...

Rod Fleeman and Danny Embrey playing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Fleeman is playing an acoustic guitar. Embrey is playing an electric guitar. Various pictures and...

Two unidentified people at the Elder Statesmen Awards in Kansas City, Missouri. One man wearing a suit is standing at a podium while looking down. Roger Naber is standing to the left. An unidentified...

Ronnie McFadden performing at Jardine's on Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. He is playing saxophone in front of Pat Morrissey and an unidentified pianist. They are on a stage in front of a wall...

Rosetta Robinson and Bob Branstetter performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Robinson is looking down while holding a microphone with one hand. Branstetter is playing bass...

Rosetta Robinson performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Robinson is looking down while singing into a microphone in on hand while raising up her other arm.

Rosetta Robinson performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Robinson is looking to the right while smiling. She is on a stage in front of a white wall.

Rosetta Robinson performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Robinson is looking down while singing into a microphone in her hand. An unidentified man is playing bass in the back...

Rosetta Robinson performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Robinson is looking down while singing into a microphone in her hand. She is on a stage in front of a white wall.

Rusty Tucker and Bob Bowman performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Tucker is wearing sunglasses and is playing a trumpet with a mute directly into a microphone. Bowman is...

Rusty Tucker rehearsing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Tucker is playing drums and looking forward with a concentrated expression. An unidentified man is standing in...

Sandy Brown playing piano at a social event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Brown is wearing a gray sweater and is looking up while playing. The back wall is covered in...

Sean Conley playing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Conley is playing an electric bass and looking to the side. He is sitting on a stool and smiling. Various pictures...

Sharon Thompson and Kevin Mahogany at Plaza III on Pennsylvania in Kansas City, Missouri. They are looking forward and smiling. Thompson is wearing a pink jacket and Mahogany is wearing a black jacket...

Sharon Thompson performing at Plaza III on Pennsylvania Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Thompson is looking to the right and singing into a microphone in her hand. She is wearing a pink jacket and...