Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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 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...

An unidentified white male pianist, farthest left in the photograph, sits diagonally on the piano bench, turns his body toward the keys, and closes his eyes as he plays. Standing beside the bench...

Eddie Saunders is mostly out of the photograph on the left side with his saxophone lying across his lap. He sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is likely playing a harmonica with both hands...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind a seated audience member, stands sideways to the stage to smile at the camera; his fiddle tucked under his right arm. An unidentified white male pianist sits and...

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. Eddie Higgins sits and plays...

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. Eddie Higgins looks down at...

In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith, on the left side of the photograph, sits behind a...

Lisa Henry, jazz singer, is mostly out of the left side of the photograph clapping her hands to the music of Gerald Dunn playing the tenor saxophone, Tyrone Clark playing the double bass, and Chris...

Eddie Saunders sits and plays a baritone saxophone while Tyrone Clark stands and plays double bass and Chris Clarke sits plays the keyboard. Tyrone and Chris are mostly out of the right side of 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...