Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

An incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz stand on stage getting ready to perform. Only Joe Wilder's head, hands, and horn are visible on the left side of the photograph as he holds his flugelhorn in...

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...

Joe Wilder sits in an audience chair in a hotel ballroom and plays his trumpet the day before his performance with a band including Claude "Fiddler" Williams. The date, "2 10 '03," is imprinted by the...

Joe Wilder looks at the flugelhorn he is playing as he stands on stage behind a microphone. An unidentified white male double bass player is behind him. A drum set is to the right. The date, "2 11 '03...

Joe Wilder looks down at the bell of a flugelhorn as he stands of stage playing with the band. A unidentified African American saxophone player looking down while playing a soprano sax is farthest...

An unidentified African American male saxophone player stands behind a music stand on stage playing a baritone saxophone. Beside him is Joe Wilder looking at the bell of his muted trumpet as he plays...

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...

Richard Ross stands and smiles as he sings into a microphone he is holding in his left hand. Larry Holloway is playing the double bass behind Richard as they perform at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd...

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 closes her eyes and smiles as she stands and sings inside a tent without sides. Eddie Saunders with his saxophone lying across his lap, Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his fiddle lying...

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...

Lucky Wesley, Ben Kynard, and an unidentified African American man sit in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "03/01/2010" is...

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, from his right side, leans back in the chair in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), closes his eyes, and...

Marcus Belgrave looks down at the keys of a baby grand piano without a lid that he is playing in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045...

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...

Marshal Royal and Gus Johnson stand outdoors next to each other in a crowded venue, in possibly Nice, France, both wearing casual summer clothing. They laugh as they look at the camera as if they are...

Group shot of Sam Johnson, farthest left, Ahmad Alaadeen (third from right), Pearl Thuston (second from right), Luqman Hamza (far right), Myra Taylor (seated, left), Clark Terry (seated, right), and...

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...

Richard Ross stands and speaks into a microphone from the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified African American drummer, double bass...