Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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...

Five unidentified African American women sit and stand around a dining room table putting a leaf in the center of the table. The woman farthest on the right side of the photograph turns her head to...

Two fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated keyboard player and possibly a slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap (all white men). The backs of the heads of the audience are in the...

Two white male fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated white male keyboard player and possibly a white male slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap. The backs of the heads of the audience are...

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...

Richard Ross stands and smiles out at the audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as he performs with an unidentified drummer, double bass player, and a keyboard...

Richard Ross, jazz singer, smiles at the audience as he stands behind a microphone at the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the keyboard...

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...

Rusty Tucker, trumpet, of the Scamps, stands in front of the piano to speak into a microphone on the stage at the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

Publicity photograph of "Sappy," a bluegrass and cowboy music performer playing a broken acoustic guitar, wearing a worn cowboy hat sideways on his head, and squinting at the camera as he sings...

The Scamps are on stage of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. Arthur Jackson, saxophone, sits in the curve of the baby grand piano. Eddie...

The Scamps (Luqman Hamza playing piano, Arthur Jackson and Eddie Saunders holding saxophones and talking to each other, Rusty Tucker holding a trumpet and smiling at the camera, and Lucky Wesley...

School children are filing out of the aisles of seats toward the back of the performance hall. Two unidentified white women, one seated, one standing, are also preparing to leave the Statesmen of Jazz...

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 photograph of the signage for the Pete Rose Ballpark Café. On right side are the standings of the American East baseball conference and on the left side are the standings of the National East...

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...

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...