Grand Emporium Collection

Blues saxophonist A.C. Reed smiles at the camera as he sits at a high-top table with am elaborately engraved saxophone lying on its side on the table. He wears a cap with four pins of three stars and...

Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit on or in front of a tile wall in front of a...

Deanna Bogart, a blues saxophonist, looks at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. She wears a black cowboy hat with a bead headband.

Diane Schuur, jazz singer and pianist, Bobby Watson, Jr., jazz saxophonist, Dr. John, jazz and blues singer, and Monty Alexander, jazz pianist, in four separate close-up, head-shot portrait...

Eddie Shaw, blues saxophone player and singer, smiles at the camera as he stands and lifts his arms wide while holding a saxophone across his body with a neck strap. He wears a fedora hat with a...

Eddie Shaw, Chicago blues saxophone player and singer, performs on the Grand Emporium stage in Kansas City, Missouri with two unidentified African American men; one playing electric guitar and one...

Eddie Shaw, blues saxophone player, lifts his right knee and closes his eyes as he plays a tenor saxophone. He wears a vest over a button-down shirt. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Eddie...

Eddie Shaw, blues saxophone player and singer, smiles at the camera as he stands and holds two saxophones. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Eddie Shaw and "The Wolf Gang." Colt Recording...

Eddie Shaw, blues saxophonist, closes his eyes as he opens his mouth wide in a close-up photograph from his right side. He holds two saxophones; one under his right arm and one across his body from...

Blues saxophonist Greg Piccolo holds up an electric guitar in his right hand and a saxophone in his left hand as he wears a dark headscarf with a wide headband. Printed in the margin below the...

Blues saxophonist Greg Piccolo smiles as he wears an animal print headband and a sweater with horses and men on it. He wears a necklace with an African head sculpture. Printed on the upper left-hand...

Blues saxophonist Harold Singer stands on stage blowing into a saxophone with a keyboard player behind him. He wears a sports jacket and a loosened necktie. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

Saxophonist John Firmin, of the Johnny Nocturne Band, squats behind vocalist Kim Nalley who sits in front of John holding his saxophone but looking back over her shoulder at John as he holds the...

Blues harmonica player and saxophonist Mark Sallings, of the band Mark Sallings & the Famous Unknowns smiles directly at the camera as he wears sunglasses in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed...

Maurice John Vaughn, Chicago blues guitarist, singer, and saxophone player, looks at the camera as he sits holding the neck of a tenor saxophone with his right hand and the neck of an electric blues...

Blues-rock guitarist Mike Reilly in a montage of color photographs with people he has appeared with. The upper left-hand photograph is Mike Reilly, Alan Blazek, and Elvin Bishop. The center-left...

Blues saxophonist Sax Gordon holds his right hand above his head as he leans to the left and blows into a tenor saxophone. He wears sunglasses and a zoot suit. Printed in the margin below the...

Son Seals Blues Band is a blues band performing at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Blues guitarist and vocalist Son Seals stands in the spotlight. Red Groetzinger plays a tenor saxophone...

Blues saxophonist and vocalist Terry Hanck sings into a microphone on a stand that he holds in his left hand as he holds a tenor saxophone in his right hand. The photograph is at an angle. Printed in...