Ahmad Alaadeen making remarks at the Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievements Awards event
Ahmad Alaadeen making remarks after receiving his award. Kansas City Star columnist, Steve Penn, is in the background during the Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Gem Theater in Kansas...
Ahmad Alaadeen making remarks to an audience in the Governor's Mansion
Ahmad Alaadeen, holding a tenor saxophone while addressing an audience during a performance at the Governor's Mansion in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen outside with Doug Alpert
Ahmad Alaadeen stands outside with Doug Alpert wearing a bowtie and suspenders.
Ahmad Alaadeen participates in mixing genres of music
Chris Clarke (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), an unidentified harmonica player, Tyrone Clark (bass, mostly obscured), an unidentified fiddler, and an unidentified banjo player perform during...
Ahmad Alaadeen participates in mixing genres of music
An unidentified guitarist, Chris Clarke (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), an unidentified harmonica player, Tyrone Clark (bass, mostly obscured), an unidentified fiddler, and an unidentified banjo...
Ahmad Alaadeen performing at UMKC for the Kansas City Jazz Band Festival
Ahmad Alaadeen (soprano saxophone), stands at the front of the stage while performing with an unidentified jazz band during the Kansas City Jazz Band Festival at University of Missouri-Kansas City in...
Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a jazz combo at BBs Lawnside BBQ
An unidentified woman sits at a table with Cotton Candy, wearing a red sequined hat and multi-colored sequined blouse as she claps her hands. An unidentified acoustic guitarist, Ahmad Alaadeen...
Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a student jazz band at the Gem Theater
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a tam-style hat, stands at the front of the stage and plays a tenor saxophone with a school jazz band during a jazz concert featuring Olathe North High, Oregon Trail Junior...
Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a student jazz band at the Gem Theater
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a tam-style hat, stands at the microphone while performing with a school jazz band with director, Ed Colson's back to the audience as he directs the students, during a jazz...
Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a student jazz band at the Gem Theater
Ahmad Alaadeen closes his eyes as he plays a tenor saxophone with students behind him during a jazz concert featuring Olathe North High, Oregon Trail Junior High, and Santa Fe Trail Junior High jazz...
Ahmad Alaadeen plays for the kids
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a straw fedora, lifts a soprano saxophone as he sits and blows into it for two kids standing in front of him behind a set of stands offstage at an unidentified outdoor festival...
Ahmad Alaadeen plays his saxophone for preschoolers and kindergartners
Ahmad Alaadeen sits in a classroom playing saxophone to a group of pre-school or kindergarten students.
Ahmad Alaadeen plays Jenga with a family
Ahmad Alaadeen (far right), wearing a kufi cap and a Boston Jazz Society t-shier that states "Jazz is Alive" with a string bass in the center, sits with an unidentified man and two kids playing a game...
Ahmad Alaadeen plays with a group of students
Ahmad Alaadeen stands beside a student's stand to read the student's music while he plays a soprano saxophone with a student drummer and a student bass player backing Ahmad while working with a group...
Ahmad Alaadeen poses with his award with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
Ahmad Alaadeen shows his award to U.S. Representative to Missouri Emanuel Cleaver during Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. The crowd is visible...
Ahmad Alaadeen posing with his award and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
Ahmad Alaadeen shows his award to U.S. Representative to Missouri Emanuel Cleaver during Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen reads a book during story time
Ahmad Alaadeen holds a tenor saxophone under his left arm while he holds a book opened to the children while reading a book to a group of pre-school or kindergarten students in an unidentified...
Ahmad Alaadeen receives the Governor's Humanities Award
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat and a corsage, receiving his award during the Governor's Humanities Awards at the Governor's Mansion in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen seated with a friend at Ahmad's home
An unidentified man sits at a table talking to Ahmad Alaadeen at an unidentified residence. Ahmad wears a kufi cap and a Boston Jazz Society t-shirt that states, "Jazz is Alive" with a string bass in...
Ahmad Alaadeen shares a meal outdoors with a family
Ahmad Alaadeen (far left), wearing an apron and a ball cap, sits with three unidentified people sitting around a patio table during a cookout probably at the Dunfee/Alaadeen residence in Overland Park...
Ahmad Alaadeen sits in with the band while working with students
Ahmad Alaadeen sits in with the band and plays a soprano saxophone while working with a group of music students at an unidentified venue.
Ahmad Alaadeen sits in with the student jazz band
Ahmad Alaadeen sits in and plays with an unidentified school jazz band in probably a rehearsal for a jazz concert featuring Olathe North High, Oregon Trail Junior High, and Santa Fe Trail Junior High...
Ahmad Alaadeen solos as the jazz band listens at the Gem Theater
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a tam-style hat, solos while the jazz band listens in the background of the photograph during a jazz concert featuring Olathe North High, Oregon Trail Junior High, and Santa Fe...
Ahmad Alaadeen solos at UMKC for the Kansas City Jazz Band Festival
Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone) standing at the front of the stage soloing with an three other unidentified soloists waiting their turn while an unidentified jazz band is behind them during the...
Ahmad Alaadeen taking a rest offstage with Michael Warren and Seth Lee
Mike Warren, Seth Lee, stand to the left of a seated Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, who is hanging out offstage by the rear entrance of the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.