Grand Emporium Collection

Kansas City Streetband, a blues bands with white and African American members, poses with the wind instrumentalists seated in the front and the guitarists and drummer standing in the back. All wear...

The Kansas City Streetband, comprised of African American and white male musicians, stands on the steps leading to the entrance of, likely, The Rose Music Hall, 1013 Park Avenue in Columbia, Missouri...

KC Brass & Electric, a blues and jazz band comprised of one African American man and five white men, smile as they stand in front of a rock wall. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "KC Brass...

Keith Doder and the Blue City Band, a blues band comprised of two African American men and two white men, stand outside a camping trailer.

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, blues singer and pianist, grins at the camera as he plays a three octave keyboard he holds in one hand and plays with the other. He wears a straw fedora hat and a wide-lapel...

Kenny Neal, blues guitarist and harmonica player, smiles at the camera as he holds the neck of a guitar in an close-up photograph. He wears a dark cowboy hat with a braided leather hatband.

Kenny Neal, a blues musician who sings, and plays piano, harmonica, and guitar, sits and embraces an electric guitar that is standing up right in his lap. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Kenny Neal, a blues musician who sings, and plays piano, harmonica, and guitar, sits with an lap steel guitar lying across his lap. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Kenny Neal. Photo...

Kepha, a reggae band comprised of three white men, one African American man, and one white woman, stand and sit outside on rocks and by a concrete wall.

Reggae vocalist Michael E. Johnson (left) looks back over his right shoulder to look at the camera as he wears a ball cap backwards on his head. His back is to pianist and keyboardist Stan Hoffman. He...

Kim Waters, jazz saxophonist, lays a saxophone over his left shoulder and crosses his right arm over his waist as he looks seriously at the camera. He wears a knitted cardigan sweater. Printed in the...

Kim Waters, jazz saxophonist, smiles as he holds a saxophone behind eight lit candles. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Kim Waters. Warlock, 122 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 (212)...

Kansas City blues guitarist King Alex smiles at the camera as he plays an electric bass guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "King Alex. Dawayne Gilley Productions, 3904 E 47th Terr...

King Brothers, a blues band comprised of four African American men and one white man, looks ahead at the camera; most wearing dark leather jackets. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Hard...

Blues vocalist King Ernest smiles as he leans back from the microphone he's holding with his right hand, and lifts his left hand to his side. He wears a double breasted suit and a dark hat. Printed in...

The Kinsey Report, a blues band comprised of three African American men, in a photograph taken from an angle from the floor up to where they are standing, holding their instruments. Printed in the...

The Kinsey Report, a blues band comprised of three African American men, sit outside in front of a concrete wall with the number 42 painted on the support. Each member holds an instrument. Printed in...

The Kinsey Report, a blues band comprised of four African American men, stand in front of a wall of windows. The man on the left holds a bag of drumsticks, wears and overcoat and a fedora hat. The man...

Kipori "Baby Wolf" Woods, a blues guitarist and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana, closes his eyes and grimaces with his chin lifted high as he plays an electric guitar. House of the Blues is hanging...

Kustom Kar Kommandos, an alternative rock band comprised of three white men and one African American man, sit in front of paned windows each wearing a different type of hat.

L'il Brian and the Zydeco Travelers, a zydeco band comprised of five African American men, stand outside on a sidewalk at a bus stop, looking seriously at the camera. Printed in the margin below the...

L'il Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians, a blues band comprised of one African American man, three African American women, and seven white men, sit and stand in a group most in silly poses and...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Larry Davis laughs as he holds a guitar and stands behind a microphone He wears a three-piece pin-stripe suit. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Photo by Jim O...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Larry Davis laughs as he stands behind a microphone playing a guitar. He wears a three piece pinstripe business suit. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Larry...

Guitarist Larry Garr smiles as he plucks the strings of an electric guitar. He wears a fedora hat. Handwritten on the bottom right of the photograph, (possibly) "To Marker, a Davis Machine, Larry Garr...