Betty Crow Collection

Carmell Jones performing with an unidentified big band at the Kansas City International Jazz Festival at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Jones is playing trumpet with a mute into a...

Chauncey Downs Orchestra performing at Fairyland Park on Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The musicians are on stage in a band shell with a cloth background. The musicians are wearing black...

Count Basie Orchestra performing at an unidentified venue. From left to right Count Basie playing piano, Rodney Richardson playing bass, Jimmy Rushing singing into a microphone on a stand, Shadow...

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...

Dizzy Gillespie hugging an unidentified woman. Gillespie is smiling and wearing a t-shirt with stripes on the arm.

Duck Warner performing at Jardine's on Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. He is playing trumpet while closing his eyes. He is on a stage in front of a wall with large windows.

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...

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...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

Side view of the Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the...

Side view of the Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the...

Side view of the Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

The Female Orchestra Diva big band performing on the Floating Jazz Festival Cruise. Three rows of women playing saxophone, trombone, and trumpet are sitting behind bandstands with the band logo...

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...