Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, smiles as he sits on a tall stool holding the...

Two fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated keyboard player and possibly a slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap (all white men). The backs of the heads of the audience are in the...

Two white male fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated white male keyboard player and possibly a white male slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap. The backs of the heads of the audience are...

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...

Keter Betts stands in a closet playing his double bass as he looks down at the Bucky Pizzarelli sitting on a upholstered chair playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams leans against a...

Rod Fleeman, playing guitar; Claude "Fiddler" Williams, playing the fiddle; and Keter Betts, playing a double bass, stand on stage at the National Folk Festival in a tent. A banner hung on the tent...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting next to Claude at the Old Northeast Festival in...

A man wearing a sweater and ball cap, has his back to the camera as he stands on the auditorium floor in front of the stage possibly setting up a sound check. Dan Pliskow, the double bass player, is...

The Statesmen of Jazz stand and sit together around the host at the Pine Crest School Performing Arts Center, 2700 St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation...

The Statesmen of Jazz are on stage at the Pine Crest School Performing Arts Center, 2700 St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation Society of Florida, Inc. at 7...

The other players in an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz pause to listen to the guitarist, Bill Wurtzel, take the solo. Jane Jarvis, is seated at the piano on the farthest left side of the...

The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida, on May 16, 2000. On the left side of the photograph, Eddie Higgins sits at the baby grand piano he plays as he looks up at Claude...

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. Farthest on the left side of...

From stage right, the stage steps lead up to a grand piano that sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler"...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Joe Wilder, trumpet player, stand on either side of Todd Bolton and smile at the camera. Joe Wilder holds a camera with both hands that is hanging from a strap around his...

Todd Bolton stands with his arm around the shoulders of Joe Wilder, trumpet. They both smile at the camera. Joe holds a camera in his left hand. They stand behind a seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player perform on stage. The mandolin player in the center of the trio sings into the microphone as he plays. He...

A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player perform on stage. The mandolin player in the center of the trio sings into the microphone as he plays. He...

A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player, perform on stage. The back of the heads of the audience are visible in the foreground of the photograph.