Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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...

The Statesmen of Jazz stand and sit together around the host at the Pine Crest School Performing Arts Center, 2700 St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation...

The Statesmen of Jazz are on stage at the Pine Crest School Performing Arts Center, 2700 St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation Society of Florida, Inc. at 7...

The other players in an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz pause to listen to the guitarist, Bill Wurtzel, take the solo. Jane Jarvis, is seated at the piano on the farthest left side of the...

The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida, on May 16, 2000. On the left side of the photograph, Eddie Higgins sits at the baby grand piano he plays as he looks up at Claude...

The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida on May 16, 2000. The date, "5 16 '00"," is imprinted on the lower right-hand of the photograph by the camera. Farthest on the left side of...

From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage...

From stage right, the stage steps lead up to a grand piano that sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler"...

From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with Steve Abshire, guitar, inside a church. Claude wears a brown leather suit as he stands center stage playing his fiddle. On the left side of the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the audience from center stage as he stands, holds his fiddle waist high, tucked under his right arm, and his bow dangles from the fingers of his left hand. Steve...

Students stand and applaud in an auditorium of a school. A basketball goal and a time clock are attached to a wall of windows beside them. The date, "4 8 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom...

Students in the auditorium of a school, applaud a performance. Some students stand while others remain seated. A balcony in the back of the auditorium has students holding up a banner that is only...

Some students still stand and applaud as others stand to leave the auditorium of a school. A girl in the foreground grimaces at the camera. The date, "4 8 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the...

Students make gestures of happiness; some toward the camera; some toward the stage that is not visible in the photograph; as they sit in a school auditorium. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the...

Students make gestures of happiness; some toward the camera; some toward the stage that is not visible in the photograph; as they sit in a school auditorium. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the...

An auditorium full of students listen intensely to likely Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band. A teacher sits on the side. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand...

An auditorium full of students listen intensely to likely Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band. A teacher stands in the back. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand...

A seated audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, claps along enthusiastically at a concert of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band who are out of the photograph.

Todd Bolton looks over at a photograph that Claude "Fiddler" Williams is looking at and holding in his hands as they sit at a table in a kitchen setting. A white amaryllis flower sits on the table...

Todd Bolton looks down at a paper he is writing on as he sits at a table by Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is looking at a photograph. They are in a kitchen setting. A white amaryllis flower sits on...