Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and looks down at the body of his fiddle as he draws the bow across the strings during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the body of his fiddle as he draws the bow across the strings in a close-up photograph during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sways as he plays his fiddle at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, with Larry Holloway playing the double bass at the back of the stage.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his right side, plays his fiddle as he sits in a wheelchair in a room at a medical institution. His instrument case is open beside him. A plant is on the dresser behind...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his right side, plays his fiddle as he sits in a wheelchair in a room in a medical institution. His instrument case is open beside him. A plant is on the dresser behind...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a chair playing a fiddle beside a man playing a spinet piano with his back to the camera. The piano player is on the left side of the photograph. The door to the room...

Ahmad Alaadeen, saxophone, stands with his back to the camera under the performance tent in the left foreground of the photograph. Across the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle for the...

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...

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 sits playing his fiddle in front of a big band of seated white men playing their instruments. Seated behind Claude are elderly white women and one elderly white man. A large...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a wheelchair playing his fiddle in front of a big band of white men playing their instruments. Three large floor-to-ceiling windows cross the wall beside the band. An...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits playing his fiddle in front of a big band of seated white men playing their instruments and one unidentified white man perhaps conducting. Seated behind Claude are...

On the left side of the photograph at an unidentified venue, possibly the Mutual Musicians Foundation, Musicians Local 627, in Kansas City, Missouri, 18th and Vine district, of wood paneled walls and...

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...

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 folds his hands and smiles as an unidentified white woman stands next to him and reads from a folder she holds in both hands and speaks into a microphone. Possibly he is...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his left side, patiently holds his fiddle as he stands and watches two other men prepare the stage to perform at the Savoy Lounge, 355 W. 41st Street in Manhattan...

An unidentified white man wearing a sun hat begins to close the back door of a mini van with his back to the camera as two other unidentified white men start toward the other side of the van to load...

A young Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on a hotel bed rehearsing the high notes on his fiddle.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins as he leans forward in his chair to shake hands with an English Springer Spaniel dog that sits beside Claude. Claude's bag sit on the floor on the other side of the...

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...

On the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration, he signs an autograph for an unidentified African American woman who bends toward him as he sits at a table in the Blue Room in...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on a chair playing his fiddle between a television on an upholstered table and the opened door to the room. There is an equalizer on the table next to the television...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly over the table that holds his 95th birthday cake and looks up to smile at the camera. He carries a cane. Plates are on the table behind his cake. The date, "2...

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...