Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, talking with Logan Richardson, a jazz ensemble student at Paseo Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a straw fedora, talks outdoors with music fans during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The crowd is visible behind them.
Ahmad Alaadeen, his back to the camera, lifts his arms as he is working with a group of jazz instrumental students listening intently during a jazz workshop at the University of Missouri-Kansas City...
Ahmad Alaadeen, his back to the photographer, pointing offstage while addressing an audience of saxophone students and their teacher during a jazz clinic at an unidentified auditorium.
Ahmad Alaadeen, his back to the photographer, standing on the stage with his arms spread wide, addressing an audience of saxophone students and their teacher during jazz clinic at an unidentified...
Ahmad Alaadeen teaching a group of students at the Charlie Parker Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen teaching a class at the Charlie Parker Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, working with two unidentified white male music students while an unidentified white man looks on at the Flint Hills Music Store in Emporia, Kansas.
Ahmad Alaadeen rubs his chin with his mouth his open while he thinks about a question during a panel discussion during the Tradin' 4s Series: On the Cusp at Mutual Musicians Foundation in the 18th and...
Ahmad Alaadeen, his back to the photographer, trades solos by playing a tenor saxophone as a student stands and plays an alto saxophone while working the rest of the band backs them up at an...
Ahmad Alaadeen, very close up, smiles directly at the photographer as he holds his saxophone right next to the left side of his face. He is wearing a fedora.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, and an unidentified man sitting backstage at the John Coltrane Memorial Concert in Blackman Auditorium at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, waits with closed eyes behind a microphone to play a soprano saxophone on an outdoor pavilion behind the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi hat, warming up backstage at the John Coltrane Memorial Concert in Blackman Auditorium at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. A muted trumpet is visible in...
Ahmad Alaadeen stands on the front of the stage and plays a tenor saxophone to rehearse and try a sound check before the stage play "We Haz Jazz!" at Briarwood Elementary School in Olathe, Kansas.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap and playing tenor saxophone while an unidentified man, possibly a music teacher motions and smiles towards the stage possibly during a jazz clinic at an unidentified...
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing an embroidered kufi hat, sitting on a barstool and warming up on soprano saxophone before a seminar at Prince of Peace Baptist Church in Sikeston, Missouri. A tenor saxophone...
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing an embroidered kufi hat, sitting on a barstool and warming up on soprano saxophone before a seminar at Prince of Peace Baptist Church in Sikeston, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a red suit jacket, warming up on tenor saxophone while Akers Aitch sits nearby in a chair, backstage at an unidentified venue.
Ahmad Alaadeen (sax, second from right) warms up while band members talk before the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band concert in the cafeteria of the adjacent high school (Paseo Academy)...
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...
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing an embroidered kufi cap, stands in front of a stucco wall and gives a small smile to the photographer. He holds the neck of a saxophone in his left hand.
An unidentified man, possibly Oregon Trail band director Ed Colson, bends down to listen as Ahmad Alaadeen whispers from behind his hand while sitting in with a jazz band probably during a rehearsal...
An unidentified drummer and bass player perform with Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) at Trenton High School students in a classroom in Trenton, Missouri.
An unidentified drummer and bassist face Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) while performing for students in a classroom at Trenton High School in Trenton, Missouri.
