Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club
A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums as he wears sunglasses. In front of Bill and to...
Helen Cole poses as she plays a drum set
Helen Cole, an African American musician, grins at the photographer as she sits behind a drum set and crosses her hands to play. Her shadow is on the wall in the spotlight of light around her. She...
King Pleasure and Popeye Maupin in Cincinnati, Ohio
King Pleasure on the left, Popeye Maupin in the center, and an unidentified African American man on the right, stand arm in arm with big grins in Cincinnati.
Maureen Smith playing the piano
Maureen Smith stands with her left side to the photographer and turns her head toward her left shoulder to smile at the photographer as she stands with her hands on the keys of a upright piano. She...
Memphis Slim
Jazz pianist Memphis Slim's head and shoulders are visible and he does not smile as he holds a microphone across his chest with his right hand and sits at a piano at an unidentified venue. There is a...
Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band
Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band at an unidentified venue in Kansas City. Farthest to the left Bunnie "Bumps" Love smiles to her right at the photographer as she sits with her hands on...
Scamps
A publicity photograph of the African American jazz group, Kansas City Scamps likely in the 1970's. From left to right, Lucky Wesley (bass, leader), Albert "Coots" Dye (piano), Arthur Jackson (alto...
Soldiers eating with a group of women
An unidentified group of African American women and uniformed African American men and one uniformed white man socializing at one long banquet table while an unidentified African American band is...