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Clark Terry, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Buddy Tate, and others perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Clark Terry, flugelhorn, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, Buddy Tate, saxophone, and others including a drummer and a trombone player, perform at...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he leans and plays his fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and bends slightly to the right as he plays his fiddle between a chair and a microphone in front of drapes. His eyes...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the camera as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, head-shot publicity photograph.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes tight as he draws the bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Only the peg box, neck, and upper bout of his fiddle are visible in the lower...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in front of Musician's Mutual Association

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams standing in front of Musician's Mutual Association.

Date Published
1971
1976
Member of
Allan Bell Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down as he plays his fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down as he plays his fiddle. He wears a large-checked suit jacket with wide lapels.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with Frank Smith in a quartet

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Frank Smith, piano, on the left side of the photograph, turns his head to looks seriously at the photographer as he plays a piano he is seated at...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams rehearsing in a hotel room

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A young Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on a hotel bed rehearsing the high notes on his fiddle.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude Williams

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Claude Williams in a suit, leaning against a fence and holding a cigarette in his hand.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Group photo of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and seven others

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Group photo with (L-R) Paul Gunther, Little Brother Montgomery, unidentified, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jay McShann, Claude Williams (holding sheet of paper)...

Date Published
1971
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Group photo of Jay McShann with seven others

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Group photo with (L-R) Paul Gunther, Little Brother Montgomery, unidentified, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jay McShann, Claude Williams (holding sheet of paper)...

Date Published
1971
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and Claude Williams at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Claude Williams, Jay McShann having a conversation at a small table in the Mutual Musicians Foundation building; Kansas City, Missouri; a carafe of...

Date Published
1971
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann performing on stage with Claude Williams and Eddie Davis

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Jay McShann (piano), Claude Williams (violin), and Eddie Davis (saxophone) performing together on stage at an unidentified outdoor event; large trees...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann receiving an honorary key

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Jay McShann receiving an honorary key and framed certificate from an unidentified white man in plaid pants; three other unidentified men (two white...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann with Claude Williams, Gene Ramey, Candy Johnson and an unidentified man

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Group shot (top row L-R) Claude Williams, Jay McShann, and Gene Ramey and Candy Johnson (front row back) with unidentified white man.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Claude Williams, Paul Gunther, and unidentified man

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Jay McShann, Claude Williams, Paul Gunther, and an unidentified white man all posing together for a photo; all facing the camera and smiling; unknown...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Series of three photographs of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams blowing up modeling balloons

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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...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Shahid (Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tayammum Falah, and Fiddler Williams)

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The original members of The Shahid, a Nation of Islam music group first formed in the 1960s (Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tayammum Falah, and Claude...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection
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  • 1971
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (10)
  • Jay McShann Collection (6)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Allan Bell Collection (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (12)
  • Gelatin silver prints (12)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Snapshots (9)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Publicity photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1971-1980 (8)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (18)
  • African American jazz musicians (16)
  • African American men (16)
  • Fiddlers (10)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Violinists (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • Newspapers (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • African American Muslims (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Award presentations (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Black Muslims (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Neckties (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violin (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (7)
  • Gunther, Paul (3)
  • Dennis, Fats (2)
  • Montgomery, Little Brother, 1906-1985 (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Falah, Tayammum (1)
  • Johnson, Floyd, 1922-1981 (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Ramey, Gene (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)
  • (-) Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (19)

Date Published

  • 1980 (13)
  • 1975 (2)
  • 1976 (1)
  • (-) 1971 (19)

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