Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs in the Savoy Lounge
Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on barstool as he plays his fiddle and performs at the Savoy Lounge, 355 W. 41st Street in the Manhattan borough in New York City, New York. A sign hanging by chains on...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs on stage with fiddler, Matt Glaser
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and faces the center of the stage as he plays his fiddle with a fiddler Matt Glaser and a group of unidentified white musicians including, a seated guitarist, and a...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with Frank Smith in a quartet
Frank Smith, piano, on the left side of the photograph, turns his head to looks seriously at the photographer as he plays a piano he is seated at. Behind and completely obscured by Frank is a double...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays along side Spencer Barefield
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, playing the fiddle, sits by Spencer Barefield, playing jazz guitar, as they sit behind two tables with beverages sitting on the tables. Two fingers can be seen strumming a...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays the Jazz Church
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the interior steps of the Jazz Church, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York, New York, smiling as he plays his fiddle with...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a band on a stage in a school auditorium
A drum set on the left side of the photograph is too dark to see the drummer; likely Jerome Harris. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, looks left toward the guitarist as he plays. Claude "Fiddler"...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with two other musicians
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends at the knees and smiles as he stands and plays his fiddle with a seated guitarist and a double bass player. The unidentified white male guitarist laughs as he looks up...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he listens to Bucky Pizzarelli perform at the White House
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he stand center stage holding his fiddle and bow up by his chest and listens to Bucky Pizzarelli play jazz guitar. Bucky is seated on the left side of the...
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...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in Kim Park's garage
A photograph of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the left, a cooler sits next to an amplifier and Russ Long seated and playing a keyboard. Just behind Russ and partially...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams with a jazz guitarist
An African American male guitarist leans over and smiles, as he holds the neck of a guitar, to be included in a photograph with Claude "Fiddler" Williams who sits and holds his fiddle by the neck...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Bobby Watson, and J.T. Lotozo perform during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival
In the glow of a light hanging from a tent or awning covering the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands sideways to the camera drawing his bow across the strings of his fiddle as he share the stage...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams' trio entertains at a café
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the...
Claude Williams Combo
The Claude Williams Combo arrange themselves in front of an opened grand piano and smile at the camera. The unidentified African American male pianist on the left side of the photograph leans toward...
Collaboration
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, on the right side of the photograph stands sideways to the audience to look back at Dan Pliskow, double bassist, and the guitarist, Spencer Barefield, as Claude plays his...
Dan Pliskow and Spencer Barefield perform in a barista bar
Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin...
Dan Pliskow speaks with Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams
The double bass player, Dan Pliskow's, back is to the camera as he speaks with Spencer Barefield, the jazz guitarist. Claude "Fiddler" Williams listens with his hands in his pockets and his fedora hat...
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...
Five string performers play with Claude "Fiddler" Williams
A group of five white men and one woman string players join Claude "Fiddler" Williams on stage in a performance. Two fiddler players stand to the left side of the photograph. A guitarist sits next to...
Focused
Double bassist Aaron Bell sits on a stool on the left side of the photograph and looks up at Claude "Fiddler" Williams across the stage, as he plucks the strings of the bass. Guitarist Ted Dunbar sits...
Johnny Crawford sings as the band accompanies him
Rusty Tucker, drummer; Ben Kynard, saxophone; Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing a Danelectro double guitar; and possibly Pearl Thuston, piano, smile as they accompany and listen to Johnny Crawford...
Marcus Belgrave uses the microphone as most of the band plays
Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, points at the audience that is not in the photograph and speaks or sings into a microphone he holds with his other hand. Meanwhile, Dan Pliskow, the double bass player...
Marcus, Claude, and Bill stand together for a photograph as others look on
A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, smiles as he sits on a tall stool holding the...