Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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"...

Students stand and applaud in an auditorium of a school. A basketball goal and a time clock are attached to a wall of windows beside them. The date, "4 8 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom...

Students in the auditorium of a school, applaud a performance. Some students stand while others remain seated. A balcony in the back of the auditorium has students holding up a banner that is only...

Some students still stand and applaud as others stand to leave the auditorium of a school. A girl in the foreground grimaces at the camera. The date, "4 8 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the...

Students make gestures of happiness; some toward the camera; some toward the stage that is not visible in the photograph; as they sit in a school auditorium. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the...

Students make gestures of happiness; some toward the camera; some toward the stage that is not visible in the photograph; as they sit in a school auditorium. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the...

An auditorium full of students listen intensely to likely Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band. A teacher sits on the side. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand...

An auditorium full of students listen intensely to likely Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band. A teacher stands in the back. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand...

A seated audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, claps along enthusiastically at a concert of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band who are out of the photograph.

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.