Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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...

Barbara and Spencer Barefield stand arm-in-arm with their heads together to smile at the camera as they stand in a yard in front of a wooden fence. The date, "4 14 '01,"," is imprinted by the camera...

The Barefield family: Barbara, A. Spencer IV, and A. Spencer, stand together in a yard in front of a wooden fence and smile at the camera. The parents lean toward their child in the center. Barbara...

Barbara and A. Spencer Barefield bend over to pet each end of a Saint Bernard as their son, 14-year-old A. Spencer Barefield IV, stands between them with his hands on the dog's back. All raise their...

Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams stand together smiling off to the left side of the photograph in an auditorium in a school. Bill's saxophone hangs from his neck by the strap and Claude...

In a blurred photograph, Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams lean towards each other and smile as they stand together in an auditorium of a school. The jazz guitarist, Spencer Barefield, has...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams is playing his fiddle on the farthest right-hand side of the photograph. Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet player, Dan Pliskow, double bassist...

Left to right: Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, from his right side; Jerome "Scrooge" Harris, drums, looking down and wearing a hat; Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, eyes closed in the foreground playing...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a microphone held shoulder high with his left hand. An...

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...

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, 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 "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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in the center of the trio. Dan Pliskow, the double bass...

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...

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, smiles as he stands outside the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), in the evening. He holds out his hand toward the name and logo of the...

Spencer Barefield turns in the dining chair he is sitting in to smile at a Saint Bernard that is sitting behind him. The dog faces the camera and has his back to Spencer. The front door is open with...

Spencer Barefield stands over and straddles a Saint Bernard facing the dog's tail and lifts his head to look at the camera. The dog turns his head toward the camera too since he is facing the open...

Spencer Barefield, holding a red jazz guitar, crouches down beside the seated double bass player, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey, a jazz pianist. A wall of windows with blinds is behind them. The...

Spencer Barefield stands holding his red jazz guitar and looking over to the seated Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, and Charlie Gabriel on one side of the green room and Big Bill Bissonnette on the left...