Ahmad Alaadeen plays a soprano saxophone and stands in the middle a group of third-graders and their teacher holding instruments during their stage play "We Haz Jazz!" at Briarwood Elementary School...
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat and holding a tenor saxophone, (third from right), stands with UMKC jazz studies teacher Michael Parkinson (far right) and a group of music students, including...
Everette Freeman (piano), Tyrone Clark (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a kufi hat, and Danny Campbell helping organize charts at Ahmad's music stand are getting ready to perform at an...
Everette Freeman (piano), Tyrone Clark (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), Matt Kane (drums), and Danny Campbell (trumpet) while performing at an outdoor concert sponsored by the Missouri African...
Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a St. Louis Cardinals ball cap, Steve Kirby (bass), and Tim Perryman (trombone) performing on an outdoor stage during the Capitol Jazz Festival in Jefferson City...
Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a St. Louis Cardinals ball cap, Steve Kirby (bass), Tim Perryman (trombone), and Tim Davis (drums) performing on an outdoor stage during the Capitol Jazz Festival...
Everette Freeman (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a St. Louis Cardinals ball cap, Steve Kirby (bass), and Tim Perryman (trombone) are performing on an outdoor stage during the Capitol Jazz...
Ahmad Alaadeen and an unidentified sax player stand in the cafeteria before the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band concert at the adjacent high school (Paseo Academy).
Ahmad Alaadeen and an unidentified sax player warming up with their saxes behind the band before the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band concert in the cafeteria of the adjacent high...
An unidentified band director is standing at the door while Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) sits and rehearses with a group of students from the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band.
An unidentified jazz band director and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) rehearsing at the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band.
Ahmad Alaadeen and an unidentified jazz ensemble student holding a trombone at Paseo Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white flat cap, blows into a tenor saxophone while Al Pearson, standing to Ahmad's left, adjusts his trumpet slide during a performance at the Mississippi Valley Blues...
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a tuxedo and a kufi cap, and Arthur Blythe stand in a doorway possibly backstage at the Gem Theater for the New Year's Eve Celebration concert in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, and Baba Oje (of hip-hop group Arrested Development fame) stand arm in arm during the night of a concert at Banquets Beyond the Bay in Sikeston, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white cap, and Ben Kynard during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, warming up, and Ben Kynard, wearinga fedora and holding a tenor saxophone, lean against a car during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln...
An unidentified young saxophonist, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearinga ball cap, Ben Kynard, and another unidentified young saxophonist, both wearing fedoras, play saxophones during the "21-Sax Salute" at...
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white cap, and Bobby Watson, wearing a red ball cap, during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen and Bobby Watson eating lunch during the Mid-America Jazz Conference at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, and Charles McPherson stand backstage at the Charlie Parker Tribute Concert during the Charlie Parker Symposium at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.
Olathe North band director Charlie Menghini and Ahmad Alaadeen shaking hands onstage at the Olathe Jazz Gala featuring the Olathe North High and Oregon Trail Junior High jazz bands at Olathe North...
Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a kufi hat, and Danny Campbell (trumpet) warming up offstage on a rooftop before a performance during the St. Louis Art Fair.
Olathe North jazz band student, Dennis Winslett, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a stocking cap and a leather jackets, stand and smile at the photographer during a teaching residency at Olathe North High...
An unidentified man stands between Ahmad Alaadeen and Donivan Bailey, holding an inscribed copy of CD which states, "To Big Jim from the Dean of Swing, Ahmed Alaadeen," during the arrival of CD copies...
