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 Frank Smith in a quartet
Frank Smith, piano, on the left side of the photograph, turns his head to looks seriously at the photographer as he plays a piano he is seated at. Behind and completely obscured by Frank is a double...
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 the Jazz Church
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the interior steps of the Jazz Church, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York, New York, smiling as he plays his fiddle with...
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 Luqman Hamza and Rusty Tucker
On the left side of the photograph at an unidentified venue, possibly the Mutual Musicians Foundation, Musicians Local 627, in Kansas City, Missouri, 18th and Vine district, of wood paneled walls and...
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 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...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone
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...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant with three other band members on the stage performing
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant stage area with his fiddle tucked under his left arm and smiles at the camera. Three other unidentified white male band members are in the stage area...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in Kim Park's garage
A photograph of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the left, a cooler sits next to an amplifier and Russ Long seated and playing a keyboard. Just behind Russ and partially...
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 takes a moment to smile at the camera
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind a seated audience member, stands sideways to the stage to smile at the camera; his fiddle tucked under his right arm. An unidentified white male pianist sits and...