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...
Ahmad Alaadeen, Gerald Dunn, Bobby Watson, Tyrone Clark and Chris Clarke play
Ahmad Alaadeen is nearly out of the left side of the photograph in the foreground playing a soprano saxophone and wearing a fedora hat. A trumpet can be seen in front of Ahmad and just above Claude...
All play except Marcus Belgrave
Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, turns his head and smiles at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as Claude plays his fiddle in the center of the stage. Claude's head is turned away from the camera as he looks at his...
Audience smiles as they listen
The audience of white men, women, and children, smiles as they listen to a jazz combo play on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday. One man has two boys seated with him. Todd Bolton is...
Audience watches a formal event
In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, unidentified African American men and one unidentified African American woman stand on stage during the Tony Williams Jazz...
Audience watches a formal event
In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, four unidentified African American men and one unidentified African American woman stand on stage as the African American...
Band listens to Bobby Watson and Tyrone Clark play
The band watches Bobby Watson play an alto saxophone in a tent with open sides. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool in the left foreground of the photograph with her side to the camera...
Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on one side of the stage with his back to the camera, playing his fiddle, while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage holding his trumpet down in front of...
Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party
The white male keyboardist laughs as he looks down at the keyboard he is seated behind. The white male double bass player next to him smiles and continues playing. An African American male saxophone...
Band playing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams birthday party
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on one side of the stage with his back to the camera while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage holding his trumpet down by his side. The unidentified...
Band warms up
In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the camera and obscures Dan Pliskow, double bass, as the...
Barbara, Spencer IV, and A. Spencer Barefield
The Barefield family: Barbara, A. Spencer IV, and A. Spencer, stand together in a yard in front of a wooden fence and smile at the camera. The parents lean toward their child in the center. Barbara...
Barefield family pet a Saint Bernard
Barbara and A. Spencer Barefield bend over to pet each end of a Saint Bernard as their son, 14-year-old A. Spencer Barefield IV, stands between them with his hands on the dog's back. All raise their...
Big Bill Bissonnette sits in the green room
Big Bill Bissonnette smiles at the camera as he sits beside an unidentified colleague in the green room. Both wear vests. The man on the right wears a bow tie. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the...
Big Bill Bissonnette takes the solo
Big Bill Bissonnette closes his eyes as he takes the trombone solo on stage on the farthest right of the photograph as the other band members check their music on the music stands in front of them...
Blanche Williams sits in the Blue Room
Blanche Williams looks to the left side of the photograph as she speaks to someone who out of the photograph. She sits in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of...
Bob Bowman, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Rod Fleeman enjoying performing
Bob Bowman, electric double bass, and Rod Fleeman, guitar, grin across the stage at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as they perform on either side of Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Rod's left side is to the...
Bob Bowman, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Rod Fleeman enjoying performing
Bob Bowman, electric double bass, grins across the stage at Rod Fleeman, guitar, whose right side is to the camera as he bends halfway over toward Claude and Bob, as they perform on either side of...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts laugh
Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitar, sits up straight and turns his head toward center stage as he laughs. His body is obscured by a monitor sitting on the edge of the stage. Claude "Fiddler" Williams...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts perform at the White House
Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and smiles as he stands center stage playing his fiddle at the White House in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of providing music for tap-dancing masters...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts perform at the White House
Bucky Pizzarelli crosses his legs bends slightly as he sits and plays jazz guitar. He looks down at the fret board. Claude "Fiddler" Williams is standing center stage smiling as he turns to watch...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts perform at the White House
Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitar, looks up at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as he sits and plays jazz guitar. He is partially obscured by a monitor on the edge of the stage. Claude stands at the microphone...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts perform at the White House
Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitar, is partially obscured by a monitor on the edge of the stage, as he sits and looks down at his guitar and performs with Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Keter Betts...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts perform at the White House
Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitar, is partially obscured by a monitor on the edge of the stage, as he sits, smiles toward Claude, and performs with Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Keter Betts...
Bucky Pizzarelli, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Keter Betts perform at the White House
Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitar, is partially obscured by a monitor on the edge of the stage, as he sits and performs with Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Keter Betts, double bass. Claude stands...