Claude "Fiddler" Williams and others performing
Claude "Fiddler" Williams is playing his fiddle on the farthest right-hand side of the photograph. Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet player, Dan Pliskow, double bassist...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and the guitarist smile at each other as the trio performs
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands sideways on stage smiling at a seated white male guitarist who looks up at Claude with a big grin as he plays his guitar. A white female double bass player with her...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Todd Bolton
Todd Bolton smiles and stands by the seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Claude turns his head to the right to smile at the camera. Claude's violin case is open on the table in front him. There are...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Todd Bolton get ready to perform
Todd Bolton smiles and stands by the seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Claude turns his head to the right to smile at the camera. Claude's violin case is open on the table in front him. There are...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he plays next to a smiling drummer
Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he stands on the left side of the photograph and draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle. An unidentified white male drummer smiles above the cymbal...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he plays with a piano play in a living room
Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes tight and crosses his leg as he sits in a chair playing a fiddle. Beside him is an unidentified white man playing a spinet piano with his back and side to the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri on the left side of the photograph with...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoys performing at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins at the camera as he walks by the baby grand piano holding his fiddle and bow in his left hand as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoys performing at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins at the camera as he walks by the baby grand piano holding his fiddle and bow in his left hand as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoys performing at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the camera as he stands on stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, snapping his fingers of his right hand as he holds his fiddle and...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams entertains along with others
Left to right: Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, from his right side; Jerome "Scrooge" Harris, drums, looking down and wearing a hat; Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, eyes closed in the foreground playing...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Ross, singer, stands beside Claude on stage waiting for his...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams gets the microphone next
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a microphone held shoulder high with his left hand. An...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams is presented a cake
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, stands and smiles holding his fiddle as an unidentified white woman stands beside him presenting him with a birthday cake celebrating his 95th...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams is presented with a birthday cake
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, speaks to someone across the stage that is out of the photograph as an unidentified white woman stands beside him presenting him with a birthday...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams jams with two guitarists
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits a bit sideways in a folding chair jamming with two seated, unidentified white male guitarists. Someone stands on the left side of the photograph mostly out of the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends his knees and smiles as he plays his fiddle at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Larry Holloway plays the double bass behind Claude on...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends deep as he plays his fiddle on stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The double bass player, Larry Holloway, is blurred on the left...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Ross, singer, stands beside Claude on stage waiting for his...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Larry Holloway is playing the double bass behind Claude on stage.
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee with Larry Holloway
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands tall as he plays the fiddle at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, with Larry Holloway on the double bass at the back of the stage.
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee with Larry Holloway
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands tall as he plays the fiddle at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, with Larry Holloway on the double bass at the back of the stage.
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at West End Gate
Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as the plays his fiddle on the stage of the West End Gate bar in New York, N.Y. An unidentified African American man stands in the center of the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs by playing jazz on his fiddle at the Levee
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends deep as he plays his fiddle on stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The double bass player, Larry Holloway, is in the dark on the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams listen to an unidentified white female fiddler play with an unidentified white female...