Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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...

Richard Ross stands and speaks into a microphone from the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified African American drummer, double bass...

Richard Ross stands and smiles out at the audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as he performs with an unidentified drummer, double bass player, and a keyboard...

Richard Ross, jazz singer, smiles at the audience as he stands behind a microphone at the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the keyboard...

Rod Fleeman, guitar, stands looking to the right of the photograph as Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks straight out toward the audience and plays his fiddle during the National Folk Festival. A banner...

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...

Rusty Tucker, trumpet, of the Scamps, stands in front of the piano to speak into a microphone on the stage at the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

The Scamps are on stage of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. Arthur Jackson, saxophone, sits in the curve of the baby grand piano. Eddie...

The Scamps (Luqman Hamza playing piano, Arthur Jackson and Eddie Saunders holding saxophones and talking to each other, Rusty Tucker holding a trumpet and smiling at the camera, and Lucky Wesley...

In a series of three photographs, Claude "Fiddler" Williams blows up a modeling balloon as he is in a big crowd. Blanche Williams blows up a modeling balloon as she is in a big crowd. And then the two...

Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in the center of the trio. Dan Pliskow, the double bass...

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...

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, looks seriously at a piece of music from his music stand that he holds in his hands, as he sits in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café...

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, smiles as he stands outside the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), in the evening. He holds out his hand toward the name and logo of the...

Spencer Barefield turns in the dining chair he is sitting in to smile at a Saint Bernard that is sitting behind him. The dog faces the camera and has his back to Spencer. The front door is open with...

Spencer Barefield stands over and straddles a Saint Bernard facing the dog's tail and lifts his head to look at the camera. The dog turns his head toward the camera too since he is facing the open...

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 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...

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, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage...