Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite
Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A crowd of mostly white men and women and one African...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Todd Bolton
Todd Bolton smiles and stands by the seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Claude turns his head to the right to smile at the camera. Claude's violin case is open on the table in front him. There are...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Todd Bolton get ready to perform
Todd Bolton smiles and stands by the seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Claude turns his head to the right to smile at the camera. Claude's violin case is open on the table in front him. There are...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri on the left side of the photograph with...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams is presented with a birthday cake
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, speaks to someone across the stage that is out of the photograph as an unidentified white woman stands beside him presenting him with a birthday...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands arm-in-arm for a photograph
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands arm-in-arm with an unidentified white man and smile at the camera inside of the Topeka Performing Arts Center in Topeka, Kansas before the Topeka Jazz Festival.
Early audience members waiting for the Statemen of Jazz concert to begin
A few seated audience members are waiting for the Statesmen of Jazz concert to begin in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation Society of Florida, Inc. on May 16, 2000. A white boy is...
Fans of jazz music and Claude "Fiddler" Williams fill the Blue Room
The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri is full of fans of jazz music on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams 93rd birthday celebration...
Fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room
Five fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the...
Fans of jazz music sit in a crowded Blue Room
The audience (both white people and African Americans) sits at tables or stands at museum exhibits in a crowded Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...
Fiddler, mandolin player, and a guitar player perform on stage
A fiddler, a mandolin player wearing a cowboy hat, and a guitar player, stand on a stage behind microphones and perform. A keyboard and a blue drum set are behind them on stage. The backs of the heads...
Richard Ross smiles at the audience as he performs with a band at the Levee
Richard Ross stands and smiles out at the audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as he performs with an unidentified drummer, double bass player, and a keyboard...
Todd Bolton and Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks at a photograph together
Todd Bolton looks over at a photograph that Claude "Fiddler" Williams is looking at and holding in his hands as they sit at a table in a kitchen setting. A white amaryllis flower sits on the table...
Todd Bolton writes while Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks through photographs
Todd Bolton looks down at a paper he is writing on as he sits at a table by Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is looking at a photograph. They are in a kitchen setting. A white amaryllis flower sits on...
Todd Bolton, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Joe Wilder
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Joe Wilder, trumpet player, stand on either side of Todd Bolton and smile at the camera. Joe Wilder holds a camera with both hands that is hanging from a strap around his...
Todd Bolton, Joe Wilder, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams
Todd Bolton stands with his arm around the shoulders of Joe Wilder, trumpet. They both smile at the camera. Joe holds a camera in his left hand. They stand behind a seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams...
Trio performs on stage
A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player perform on stage. The mandolin player in the center of the trio sings into the microphone as he plays. He...
Trio performs on stage
A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player perform on stage. The mandolin player in the center of the trio sings into the microphone as he plays. He...