Ahmad Alaadeen rests a moment as Dick Wright enjoys the crowd at the Kansas City Jazz Heritage Awards reception
Ahmad Alaadeen sitting at a table while fellow recipient Dick Wright stands directly behind him talking to someone during the Jazz Heritage Awards reception at Saks Fifth Avenue in Kansas City...
Ahmad Alaadeen wearing a hat too small for his head
Ahmad Alaadeen, looking doubtful as he wears a black leather garrison cap while WGBH radio host, Eric Jackson (background, left), and others sit and stand as they talk backstage at the John Coltrane...
All of the Kansas City Jazz Heritage Award recipients seated at Saks Fifth Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri
(Front row) Arch Martin, Luqman Hamza, an unidentified woman, and Frank Smith, (back row) Dick Wright, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, Eddie Saunders, and an unidentified man during the Jazz Heritage...
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...
NPR's Talk of the Nation personnel and Ahmad Alaadeen at Union Station
Arun Rath (fifth from right), Ahmad Alaadeen (fourth from right), wearing a kurfi cap, radio host Juan Williams (third from right), and four unidentified NPR staff pose for a photograph the day of a...