Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A crowd of mostly white men and women and one African...

Ahmad Alaadeen stands outside wearing a straw fedora hat and holding an alto saxophone ready to play. The date, "08/24/2008" is printed by the camera on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph.

Ahmad Alaadeen is nearly out of the left side of the photograph in the foreground playing a soprano saxophone and wearing a fedora hat. A trumpet can be seen in front of Ahmad and just above Claude...

Alison Krauss smiles as she stands next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at Carnegie Hall. Claude points at the camera as he smiles. He wears a tuxedo.

Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, turns his head and smiles at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as Claude plays his fiddle in the center of the stage. Claude's head is turned away from the camera as he looks at his...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the right side of the photograph beside Alvin Brooks, and laughs as Alvin speaks into a microphone on the occasion of Claude's 92nd birthday. A large mural is on...

A white male announcer stands center stage speaking into a microphone as he looks right toward Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is walking off the stage with his fiddle and bow.

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...

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...

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 sits on one side of the stage with his back to the camera, playing his fiddle, while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage holding his trumpet down in front of...

The white male keyboardist laughs as he looks down at the keyboard he is seated behind. The white male double bass player next to him smiles and continues playing. An African American male saxophone...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on one side of the stage with his back to the camera while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage holding his trumpet down by his side. The unidentified...

In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the camera and obscures Dan Pliskow, double bass, as the...

Barbara and Spencer Barefield stand arm-in-arm with their heads together to smile at the camera as they stand in a yard in front of a wooden fence. The date, "4 14 '01,"," is imprinted by the camera...

The Barefield family: Barbara, A. Spencer IV, and A. Spencer, stand together in a yard in front of a wooden fence and smile at the camera. The parents lean toward their child in the center. Barbara...

Barbara and A. Spencer Barefield bend over to pet each end of a Saint Bernard as their son, 14-year-old A. Spencer Barefield IV, stands between them with his hands on the dog's back. All raise their...

Big Bill Bissonnette smiles at the camera as he sits beside an unidentified colleague in the green room. Both wear vests. The man on the right wears a bow tie. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the...

Big Bill Bissonnette closes his eyes as he takes the trombone solo on stage on the farthest right of the photograph as the other band members check their music on the music stands in front of them...

Blanche Williams stands among the restaurant's tables with the chef of the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). A wall decorated with photographs is behind them. The date, "4 13...

In a double photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams' promotional photograph on the left of him holding up his fiddle with the body on a table he is seated at and the neck held beside his face as he...

Bob Bowman, electric double bass, and Rod Fleeman, guitar, grin across the stage at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as they perform on either side of Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Rod's left side is to the...

Bob Bowman, electric double bass, grins across the stage at Rod Fleeman, guitar, whose right side is to the camera as he bends halfway over toward Claude and Bob, as they perform on either side of...

Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitar, sits up straight and turns his head toward center stage as he laughs. His body is obscured by a monitor sitting on the edge of the stage. Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and smiles as he stands center stage playing his fiddle at the White House in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of providing music for tap-dancing masters...