Hal Malia and Ahmad Alaadeen talk
Hal Melia's back is to the photographer as he talks with Ahmad Alaadeen during the Tradin' 4s Series: On the Cusp at Mutual Musicians Foundation in the 18th and Vine district, Kansas City, Missouri...
Hamza Luqman and LaVerne Barker rehearse at Mutual Musicians Foundation
Luqman Hamza (piano) and LaVerne Barker (bass), wearing a ball cap, rehearsing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Ahmad Alaadeen's soprano saxophone can be seen on the left of...
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 during the 21-sax salute at Charlie Parker's gravesite
Jay McShann, wearing a white ball cap, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white cap, during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
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 share a laugh
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, looks down and smiles as he stands behind a seated Jay McShann. Jay grins to his left. They are at an unidentified venue possibly in the 18th and Vine District in...
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 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 laughing with Ahmad Alaadeen
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, stands to the left of a seated Jay McShann and laughs. Jay laughs as he points with his right hand toward Ahmad They are at an unidentified venue possibly in the...
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...
Jay McShann, Ahmad Alaadeen, Gerald Spaits and Al Pearson performing in a band shell
Jay McShann (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), Gerald Spaits (bass), and Al Pearson (trumpet) performing at an unidentified venue with a band shell like the Fair Park Amphitheater in Dallas, Texas...
Jay McShann, Ahmad Alaadeen, Richard Ross, Sonny Kenner, and Bob Bowman, performing at The Club at Plaza III
Jay McShann (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), Richard Ross (vocals), Sonny Kenner (guitar), and Bob Bowman (bass, mostly obscured) performing at The Club at Plaza III in Kansas City, Missouri.
Jay McShann, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Bob Bowman, performing at The Club at Plaza III
Jay McShann (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), Bob Bowman (bass, mostly obscured), and Sonny Kenner (guitar) wearing tuxedos while performing at The Club at Plaza III in Kansas City, Missouri. The...
Jay McShann, Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Al Pearson on stage during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival
Jay McShann (piano), an unidentified man, Sonny Kenner (guitar), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a white fedora, Al Pearson (trumpet), and an unidentified bass player get situated onstage at the...
Jay McShann, Sonny Kenner, and Ahmad Alaadeen get ready to play on stage during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival
Jay McShann (piano), an unidentified man, Sonny Kenner (guitar), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a white fedora, and an unidentified bass player get ready to perform onstage at the Kansas City...
Jimmy Heath and Ahmad Alaadeen
Jimmy Heath, wearing a kufi hatk, and Ahmad Alaadeen, eating, sitting at a table that is backstage with others at the Gem Theater during the "The Heath Brothers: Jammin' at the Gem" concert series in...
John Frohnmayer, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Kathleen Turner during the Missouri Performing arts--Awards
Ahmad Alaadeen (holding his Missouri Arts Award) flanked by co-presenters John Frohnmayer (Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts) and Kathleen Turner standing beside a podium with the state...