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Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A crowd of mostly white men and women and one African American woman stand behind the two saxophone players. A spread of a floral arrangement is mostly obscured by Ahmad's body.
Date Published
2001
2010
Subjects
Jazz musicians
African American men
Saxophonists
Men, White
Music audiences
Music fans
African American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians, White
Subjects, Geographic
Kansas City (Mo.)
Notes

No date; likely 2000s

Handwritten on the verso of the photograph in black grease pencil, "Charlie Parker Grave Ahmad Alaadeen."

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : color print ; 10 x 16 cm
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-305.tif
Genres
Color photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
In Copyright.
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.

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