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...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand on either side of A. Spencer Barefield IV
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand on either side of 14-year-old A. Spencer Barefield IV. The tops of their heads are out of the top of the photograph but their smiles can be seen as...
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 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 stands with friends and family
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands with friends and family in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri during the Merging Generations concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. The...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams, and Buck O'Neil visit in front of a food truck
Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns his head to look at the camera as he stands in front of a food truck with his wife, Blanche, smiling and standing in the center between him and Buck O'Neil. Buck smiles...
Claude and Blanche with another couple at the Merging Generations Concert
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...
Houston Person and Etta Jones perform at the Tony Williams Jazz Fest
Houston Person stands on a stage in a room with a pink-draped ceiling while he plays his tenor saxophone and looks out over the audience at the Tony Williams Jazz Fest. Sitting next to Houston is Etta...
Ida McBeth and Lisa Henry watch the band play
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, slightly bends his knees as he stands and looks down at the fiddle he is playing with his bow. He wears a fedora hat. Lisa Henry and Ida McBeth, jazz singers, sit on tall...
Ida McBeth sings with the band in the festival tent
Ida McBeth lifts her head and sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she sits on a tall stool in a tent with open sides. Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits behind her looking down at and...
Johnny Crawford sings as the band accompanies him
Rusty Tucker, drummer; Ben Kynard, saxophone; Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing a Danelectro double guitar; and possibly Pearl Thuston, piano, smile as they accompany and listen to Johnny Crawford...
Lisa Henry and the band perform
Eddie Saunders sits and plays a baritone saxophone while Tyrone Clark stands and plays double bass and Chris Clarke sits plays the keyboard. Tyrone and Chris are mostly out of the right side of the...
Lisa Henry sings
Lisa Henry closes her eyes and smiles as she stands and sings inside a tent without sides. Eddie Saunders with his saxophone lying across his lap, Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his fiddle lying...
Lisa Henry sings as Eddie Saunders and Ida McBeth look at each other
Lisa Henry, jazz singer, closes her eyes and grins as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool and looks away from the camera to look at...
Myra Taylor, Clark Terry, Sam Johnson, Mary Moore, Pearl Thuston, and Luqman Hamza gather together for a photograph
Group shot of Sam Johnson, farthest left, Ahmad Alaadeen (third from right), Pearl Thuston (second from right), Luqman Hamza (far right), Myra Taylor (seated, left), Clark Terry (seated, right), and...
Regina Carter performs as part of a quartet for the Merging Generations Concert
Regina Carter stands center stage playing her fiddle as she performs as part of a quartet for the Merging Generations concert in Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. The other unidentified...
Spencer Barefield, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey
Spencer Barefield, holding a red jazz guitar, crouches down beside the seated double bass player, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey, a jazz pianist. A wall of windows with blinds is behind them. The...
Spencer Barefield, Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, Charlie Gabriel, and Big Bill Bissonnette
Spencer Barefield stands holding his red jazz guitar and looking over to the seated Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, and Charlie Gabriel on one side of the green room and Big Bill Bissonnette on the left...