Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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...

A host wearing a captain's hat, smiles and speaks into a microphone that he holds in his right hand as he stands in the center of the stage for the Statesmen of Jazz performance in Boca Raton, Florida...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, slightly bends his knees as he stands and looks down at the fiddle he is playing with his bow. He wears a fedora hat. Lisa Henry and Ida McBeth, jazz singers, sit on tall...

Ida McBeth closes her eyes and lifts her head as she sits on a tall stool and sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand. She expressively holds the fingers of her left hand up to the sky...

Ida McBeth lifts her head and sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she sits on a tall stool in a tent with open sides. Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits behind her looking down at and...

Illinois Jacquet and Claude "Fiddler" Williams laugh as they shake hands and turn to face the camera on stage, most likely at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest rehearsal. Claude wears a ball cap from...

Illinois Jacquet and Claude "Fiddler" Williams laugh as they shake hands and turn to face the camera on stage, most likely at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest rehearsal. Claude wears a ball cap from...

Joe Cartwright, keyboard player, leans over the keys and looks to his right as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the right...

Joe Wilder looks down or closes his eyes as he sits on a coffee table holding his trumpet between his knees with both hands. He faces Claude "Fiddler" Williams who sits on a couch playing his fiddle...

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...

Lisa Henry, jazz singer, closes her eyes and grins as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool and looks away from the camera to look at...

Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, laughs as he put his left arm around the shoulders of Claude "Fiddler" Williams, who is also laughing as they stand just inside the open doorway. Both wear fedoras and...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams laughs as he holds his fiddle and bow in his left hand and stands next to Marcus Belgrave. Marcus has his hand on Claude's shoulder and is laughing as he talks or sings with...

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 Belgrave, holding a trumpet, and Bill Ensley, saxophonist, wearing bowler hats and burgundy vests, stand on either side of Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a dressing room and all smile at the...

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...

Regina Carter stands center stage playing her fiddle as she performs as part of a quartet for the Merging Generations concert in Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. The other unidentified...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...