Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand in the middle of another couple and smile for a photograph in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri, during the Merging...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, on the right side of the photograph stands sideways to the audience to look back at Dan Pliskow, double bassist, and the guitarist, Spencer Barefield, as Claude plays his...

An unidentified African American man and woman stand on a white bridge over a body of water and share something from a plastic cup. The woman, leaning against the railing of the bridge, looks up and...

An unidentified African American man and woman sit on a double glider chair outdoors in a backyard as they look up at the camera and smile. He holds a black dog with a patch of white between them on...

Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin...

The double bass player, Dan Pliskow's, back is to the camera as he speaks with Spencer Barefield, the jazz guitarist. Claude "Fiddler" Williams listens with his hands in his pockets and his fedora hat...

The Dancing Cobras, a dance troupe of African American children, perform in the middle of the street in Old Northeast in Kansas City, Missouri.

Students have left their seats and gather around the floor in front of the stage to smile as they look up and have an encounter with David "Fathead" Newman, David's back is to the camera as he bends...

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...

The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida on May 16, 2000. The date, "5 16 '00"," is imprinted on the lower right-hand of the photograph by the camera. Eddie Higgins looks down at...

Eddie Saunders, saxophonist, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams stand in the lobby of an art gallery and smile at the camera. Eddie's left arm is around the shoulders of Claude as they shake hands. Claude...

Eddie Saunders, holding a saxophone, opens his mouth in surprise at Lisa Henry, jazz singer, who is mostly obscured by Ida McBeth, jazz singer. Ida sits on a tall stool looking away from the camera...

Everette Devan smiles as he sits on a step of a stoop with his fingers intertwined and his elbows resting on this thighs. A Budweiser beer can and a bundled up napkin sit on the step below him between...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A group of five white men and one woman string players join Claude "Fiddler" Williams on stage in a performance. Two fiddler players stand to the left side of the photograph. A guitarist sits next to...

A flier on the window of the Harlequin Café advertising Claude "Fiddler" Williams' appearance. The flier reads, "Columbine's Champagne Cellar next door to the Harlequin Café in Detroit's Historic...

In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith, on the left side of the photograph, sits behind a...

In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward the audience on the edge of the stage playing his...

Lisa Henry, jazz singer, is mostly out of the left side of the photograph clapping her hands to the music of Gerald Dunn playing the tenor saxophone, Tyrone Clark playing the double bass, and Chris...

A young African American girl sits in a chair with her knees drawn up so her feet rest on the edge of the seat as she looks up at the camera with a slight smile. The bottom of a poster is visible in...

Photograph at night of the street view of the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). A valet parking sign sits on the sidewalk by the street in the foreground of the photograph...