Gary Sykes, Steve Kirby, Will Matthews, Reggie Thomas, and Ahmad Alaadeen perform in Malden, Missouri
Gary Sykes (drums, mostly obscured), Steve Kirby (bass), Will Matthews (guitar), Reggie Thomas (piano), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a beanie, on stage performing at Malden Community Center...
Gary Sykes, Steve Kirby, Will Matthews, Reggie Thomas, and Ahmad Alaadeen perform in Malden, Missouri
Gary Sykes (drums, mostly obscured), Steve Kirby (bass), Will Matthews (guitar), Reggie Thomas (piano), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) on stage performing at Malden Community Center in Malden...
Gathering of musicians outside Mutual Musicians Foundation building
(Top row) Luqman Hamza, unidentified, Orestie "Rusty" Tucker, unidentified, unidentified, (second row from top) unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Everette DeVan, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified,...
Gathering of musicians outside Mutual Musicians Foundation building
Ahmad Alaadeen (fedora and sunglasses), Sonny Kenner (plaid shirt), Everette DeVan (black suit and grey shirt), Orestie "Rusty" Tucker (pin-striped suit and tie), and others gathering outside Mutual...
George Duke, Ahmad Alaadeen, and George Benson backstage at the Gem Theater
George Duke, grinning at Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat with his back to the photographer and blurry because of movement, and George Benson, grooming the sleeve of his tuxedo, are hanging out...
Gerald Dunn and Ahmad Alaadeen at The Blue Room
Gerald Dunn points at Ahmad Alaadeen, who is wearing a fedora and pursing his lips, at The Blue Room in Kansas City, Missouri. The bar and crowd can be seen behind them.
Greg Riley, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Sean Conly at the Missouri Heritage Fair
Greg Riley, Ahmad Alaadeen, grinning and wearing a Kufi cap, and Sean Conly stand outdoors among the exhibition tents during the Missouri Heritage Fair on the History Museum grounds in Forest Park in...
Greg Riley, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Sean Conly at the Missouri Heritage Fair
Greg Riley, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, and Sean Conly stand outdoors among the exhibition tents during the Missouri Heritage Fair on the History Museum grounds in Forest Park in St. Louis...
Greg Riley, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Sean Conly at the Missouri Heritage Fair
Greg Riley, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, and Sean Conly stand outdoors during the Missouri Heritage Fair on the History Museum grounds in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.
Group 21 getting ready for a live broadcast of NPR's Talk of the Nation
Alaadeen and Group 21: Chris Clarke (piano), wearing a kufi cap, Tyrone Clark (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a kufi cap, Pat Flynn (drums); on stage running through a sound check for a...
Group of musicians waiting offstage at the outdoor concert venue of the 1993 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival
Unidentified group of people relaxing in the shade, including Speedy Huggins (seated, white shirt, black tie) and Ahmad Alaadeen (wearing a white flat cap, holding saxophone); and possibly Tyrone...
Hamza Luqman, LaVerne Barker, and Ahmad Alaadeen rehearse at Mutual Musicians Foundation
Luqman Hamza (piano), LaVerne Barker (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and an unidentified drummer rehearsing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Harry Belafonte, Ahmad Alaadeen, George Benson, and George Duke backstage at the Gem Theater
Harry Belafonte, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, George Benson, and George Duke, wearing tuxedos, stand arm in arm and smile at the photographer backstage at the Gem Theater during the Annual 18th...
Harry Belafonte, Ahmad Alaadeen, George Benson, and George Duke backstage at the Gem Theater
Harry Belafonte, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, George Benson, and George Duke, wearing tuxedos, stand arm in arm and smile at the photographer backstage at the Gem Theater during the Annual 18th...
Harry Belafonte, Ahmad Alaadeen, George Benson, and George Duke backstage at the Gem Theater
Harry Belafonte, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, George Benson, and George Duke, wearing tuxedos, stand arm in arm and smile at the photographer backstage at the Gem Theater during the Annual 18th...
J.B. Kirkpatrick and Ahmad Alaadeen smile for the photographer
[From attached caption:] "Lower Beaton Street Dixieland Band Director J.B. Kirkpatrick participates in band clinic with Alaadeen and the Corsicana High School Jazz Band." [Corsicana, Texas] Alaadeen...
Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen perform for a group of children
From the left side Ahmad Alaadeen, playing a sax, visible standing behind the lifted lid of the baby grand piano that Jay McShann is playing, his back to the photographer. Donivan Bailey (drums), sits...
Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen perform for film
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, stands to play a tenor saxophone and Jay McShann sits and plays a baby grand piano with it's lid open while an unidentified cameraman films them at an unidentified...
Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen performing at the Jazz Evenings concert
Jay McShann (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), an unidentified sax player, bass player, and trombone player with Butch Miles (drums) during Jazz Evenings concert at the Orange Tree Golf and...
Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen walk away down the street
Jay McShann, wearing a ball cap, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, walking away from the photographer, arm in arm, down the street with two women in walking in front of them possibly in the 18th...
Jay McShann greets a fan
A seated Jay McShann shakes the hand of an unidentified African American woman at unidentified venue, possibly in the 18th and Vine District in Kansas City, Missouri.
Jay McShann greets Ahmad Alaadeen in the 18th and Vine District
Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen shaking hands, flanked by Marianne McShann and Carmell Jones in the 18th and Vine District, possibly an event in conjunction with Robert Altman's film "Kansas City".
Jay McShann Quartet at the Sunset Zoo
The Jay McShann Quartet: McShann (piano), Terry Hughes (drums), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a white ball cap, and Nobel "Duke" Samuels (bass) play during the Cool Cats Jazz Festival at the...
Jay McShann with Ahmad Alaadeen, Al Pearson, Gerald Spaits, and Terry Hughes performing in a sunny room
Jay McShann (piano) in the foreground from his left, with Ahmad Alaadeen (sax, background, back to camera), Al Pearson (trumpet, background, in profile), Gerald Spaits (bass, profile), and Terry...
Jay McShann, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Speedy Huggins take a break at The Blue Room
An unidentified man stands in background as another unidentified sits at a table with Jay McShann, in a tuxedo with a drink in his hand, and likely Speedy Huggins, wearing a flat cap. Ahmad Alaadeen...