Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite
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...
Audience smiles as they listen
The audience of white men, women, and children, smiles as they listen to a jazz combo play on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday. One man has two boys seated with him. Todd Bolton is...
Band playing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams birthday party
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...
Band warms up
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...
Blanche Williams sits in the Blue Room
Blanche Williams looks to the left side of the photograph as she speaks to someone who out of the photograph. She sits in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of...
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 entertains patrons
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind the stage, stands and plays his fiddle as he performs for patrons at round tables with white tablecloths. There are only beverages on the tables. An unidentified...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his table in the Blue Room
Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at something on the table he is sitting at in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri, on the occasion of...
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...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with an unidentified white female double bass player and a seated white male jazz...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with another, white female, fiddler, and a double bass player completely obscured...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with the band behind him and audience in front of him
In a photograph from the side of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the edge of the stage playing his fiddle and facing the...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration
Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in Kansas...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits with the audience at an event
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the farthest left side of the photograph. A pink and blue rabbit head wearing a bow tie is a picture hanging on the wall to his left. The audience, facing...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks as he performs for students
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak into a microphone as an unidentifed white female fiddler player and double bass...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks as he performs with a string band
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an...
Early audience members waiting for the Statemen of Jazz concert to begin
A few seated audience members are waiting for the Statesmen of Jazz concert to begin in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation Society of Florida, Inc. on May 16, 2000. A white boy is...
Fans of jazz music and Claude "Fiddler" Williams fill the Blue Room
The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri is full of fans of jazz music on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams 93rd birthday celebration...
Fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room
Five fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the...
Fans of jazz music sit in a crowded Blue Room
The audience (both white people and African Americans) sits at tables or stands at museum exhibits in a crowded Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...
Fiddler, mandolin player, and a guitar player perform on stage
A fiddler, a mandolin player wearing a cowboy hat, and a guitar player, stand on a stage behind microphones and perform. A keyboard and a blue drum set are behind them on stage. The backs of the heads...
From the side of the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward and enthusiastic audience
In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward the audience on the edge of the stage playing his...
Gerald Dunn, Tyrone Clark, and Chris Clarke play inside a performance tent
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...
Richard Ross smiles at the audience as he performs with a band at the Levee
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...