Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing with the Statesmen of Jazz
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left side of the photograph. Joe Wilder playing...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Ross, singer, stands beside Claude on stage waiting for his...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams listen to an unidentified white female fiddler play with an unidentified white female...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with an unidentified white female double bass player and a seated white male jazz...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with another, white female, fiddler, and a double bass player completely obscured...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs in the Savoy Lounge
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on barstool as he plays his fiddle and performs at the Savoy Lounge, 355 W. 41st Street in the Manhattan borough in New York City, New York. A sign hanging by chains on...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs on stage with fiddler, Matt Glaser
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and faces the center of the stage as he plays his fiddle with a fiddler Matt Glaser and a group of unidentified white musicians including, a seated guitarist, and a...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with a band at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams moves his feet and leans into the music as he plays his fiddle at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Larry Holloway plays a double bass on the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with the band behind him and audience in front of him
In a photograph from the side of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the edge of the stage playing his fiddle and facing the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with the band in a festival tent
Eddie Saunders is mostly out of the photograph on the left side with his saxophone lying across his lap. He sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is likely playing a harmonica with both hands...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing with a garage band
The photographer's finger is partially over the lens as the camera caught a photo of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the left, an unidentified white woman stands with her...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays at the Merging Generations Concert
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle center stage as he performs as part of a quartet of unidentified African American male jazz musicians including baby grand piano, a double bass, and a drum...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays in the performance tent
Ahmad Alaadeen, saxophone, stands with his back to the camera under the performance tent in the left foreground of the photograph. Across the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle for the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a band on a stage in a school auditorium
A drum set on the left side of the photograph is too dark to see the drummer; likely Jerome Harris. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, looks left toward the guitarist as he plays. Claude "Fiddler"...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a big band
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits playing his fiddle in front of a big band of seated white men playing their instruments. Seated behind Claude are elderly white women and one elderly white man. A large...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a big band
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a wheelchair playing his fiddle in front of a big band of white men playing their instruments. Three large floor-to-ceiling windows cross the wall beside the band. An...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a big band
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits playing his fiddle in front of a big band of seated white men playing their instruments and one unidentified white man perhaps conducting. Seated behind Claude are...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with two other musicians
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends at the knees and smiles as he stands and plays his fiddle with a seated guitarist and a double bass player. The unidentified white male guitarist laughs as he looks up...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams prepares to perform at the Savoy Lounge
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his left side, patiently holds his fiddle as he stands and watches two other men prepare the stage to perform at the Savoy Lounge, 355 W. 41st Street in Manhattan...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams reaches to carry his own fiddle as people load up the van
An unidentified white man wearing a sun hat begins to close the back door of a mini van with his back to the camera as two other unidentified white men start toward the other side of the van to load...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration
Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in Kansas...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration
On the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration, he signs an autograph for an unidentified African American woman who bends toward him as he sits at a table in the Blue Room in...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits with the audience at an event
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the farthest left side of the photograph. A pink and blue rabbit head wearing a bow tie is a picture hanging on the wall to his left. The audience, facing...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks as he performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak into a microphone as an unidentifed white female fiddler player and double bass...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks as he performs with a string band
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an...