Betty Crow Collection

The Female Orchestra Diva at the Kansas City International Jazz Festival at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Three rows of women are playing trumpets, trombones, and saxophones. One woman...

The Female Orchestra Diva at the Kansas City International Jazz Festival at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Three rows of women are playing trumpets, trombones, and saxophones. One woman...

Four unidentified musicians on stage at the Grand Emporium on Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. They are playing electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. The man in center is possibly singing...

Four musicians performing at an event at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The man on the left is playing trumpet while facing left. A man, likely Al Bartee, sits playing a drum set. A man...

Gary Sivils and Bob Branstetter performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Sivils is playing a trumpet with mute directly into a microphone. Branstetter is in back...

Gerald Dunn playing saxophone at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Dunn is looking to the side and closing his eyes while playing. E is wearing a white shirt and patterned tie.

Gerald Dunn playing saxophone at a social event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. People are sitting and standing around the stage, watching Dunn and talking. Al "Delightful...

Gerald Dunn playing saxophone at a social event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Dunn is closing his eyes while looking to the side and is wearing a black sweater. An...

Gwen and Bob Green with Billy G. Moore, Jr., at the Elder Statesmen Awards in Kansas City, Missouri. They are standing in front of others talking in the background. All three of them are looking...

Henry Hoard and Eddie Saunders performing on the Jazz Stage at the Kansas City Spirit Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. Hoard is standing on the left, looking at Saunders. Saunders is sitting on a...

Henry Hoard and Eddie Saunders performing on the Jazz Stage at the Kansas City Spirit Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. Hoard is standing while playing saxophone and looking forward. Saunders is...

Henry Hoard and Eddie Saunders performing on the Jazz Stage at the Kansas City Spirit Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. Hoard is holding a saxophone and looking forward. Saunders is playing saxophone...

Horace Washington and Al Perkins at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Washington is wearing a striped shirt and Perkins is wearing a tan shirt. An unidentified man is sitting...

Jackie Anderson and Bernard "Step Buddy" Anderson performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Jackie is holding a microphone up to Step Buddy who is playing trumpet. They are on a...

Jackie Anderson performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. She is looking forward while singing into a microphone in one hand. She is on a stage cluttered with other instruments.

Jackie Anderson performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. She is singing into a microphone in one hand while looking to the side. She is on a stage cluttered with other instruments...

Jackie Anderson at the Elder Statesmen Awards in Kansas City, Missouri. She is wearing a multi-colored dress and is standing next to a cosmetics display.

James "Chico" Battaglia and Rick Hendricks performing at Obsessions Night Club in Kansas City, Missouri. Battaglia is playing congas while closing his eyes. Hendricks is looking to the side while...

James Albright and Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Albright is sitting on a stool and playing bass. Williams is leaning forward while...

James Albright performing at Majestic Steak House on Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri. He is closing his eyes while playing electric bass behind a set of drums.

Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen at a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. McShann is standing second from left, leaning forward while talking. Alaadeen is sitting in the...

Jay McShann and Bobby Branstetter at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. McShann is looking down while playing piano. Branstetter is sitting on a stool while playing bass...

Jay McShann and Duke Samuels with an unidentified man at a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. McShann is standing on the left and Samuels is standing on the right. All...

Jay McShann and Raymond "Cowboy" Jones at the 90th Birthday Jam at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. McShann is wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and is looking to the side...

Jay McShann at the 90th Birthday Jam at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. McShann is standing an laughing in the middle of a crowd of unidentified musicians and audience...