Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, turns his head and smiles at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as Claude plays his fiddle in the center of the stage. Claude's head is turned away from the camera as he looks at his...

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...

Charlie Gabriel holds his saxophone with his right hand as he grabs the right hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his left hand. Charlie turns his head to smile at the camera as Claude looks...

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...

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...

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...