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Bob Bowman, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Rod Fleeman enjoying performing

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Bob Bowman, electric double bass, and Rod Fleeman, guitar, grin across the stage at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as they perform on either side of Claude...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Bob Bowman, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Rod Fleeman enjoying performing

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Bob Bowman, electric double bass, grins across the stage at Rod Fleeman, guitar, whose right side is to the camera as he bends halfway over toward...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Buddy Tate head into the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Buddy Tate, wearing a brown and white large checked sports jacket and holding his saxophone in a case, looks to his left at Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he plays with a piano play in a living room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes tight and crosses his leg as he sits in a chair playing a fiddle. Beside him is an unidentified white man...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams has the spotlight

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes so tight that his face grimaces as he draws his bow across his fiddle in the spotlight of a dark stage. Only...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams holds a pipe in his mouth as he sits with a friend

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams while sitting at a table wearing casual clothing, leans his head toward the head of an unidentified African American woman...

Date Published
1981
1985
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and smiles at the camera as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a publicity photograph.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams from his left side, smiles forward as he holds his fiddle waist high with his left hand. A open lid of a grand piano is...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a tuxedo with a bandaged finger

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table wearing a light-colored tuxedo with a bow tie and a boutonniere. He holds out his left hand and smiles as if...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams jams with two guitarists

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits a bit sideways in a folding chair jamming with two seated, unidentified white male guitarists. Someone stands on the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at West End Gate

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as the plays his fiddle on the stage of the West End Gate bar in New York, N.Y. An unidentified...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing with a garage band

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The photographer's finger is partially over the lens as the camera caught a photo of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle with a piano player in a living room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a chair playing a fiddle beside a man playing a spinet piano with his back to the camera. The piano player is on the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams shakes hands with a dog

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins as he leans forward in his chair to shake hands with an English Springer Spaniel dog that sits beside Claude. Claude's...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a living room and plays his fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on a chair playing his fiddle between a television on an upholstered table and the opened door to the room. There is an...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant with three other band members on the stage performing

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant stage area with his fiddle tucked under his left arm and smiles at the camera. Three other...

Date Published
1981
1985
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in Kim Park's garage

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A photograph of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the left, a cooler sits next to an amplifier and Russ Long seated and...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams with a jazz guitarist

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An African American male guitarist leans over and smiles, as he holds the neck of a guitar, to be included in a photograph with Claude "Fiddler"...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Focused

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Double bassist Aaron Bell sits on a stool on the left side of the photograph and looks up at Claude "Fiddler" Williams across the stage, as he plucks...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 1981
  • Fiddlers

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (19)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Color photographs (17)
  • Group portraits (8)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Black & white photographs (2)
  • Gelatin silver prints (2)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Photocopies (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (19)
  • African American men (19)
  • Jazz musicians (19)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Guitarists (6)
  • Double bassists (5)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Boutonnieres (1)
  • Bow ties (1)
  • Cuff links (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Handshaking (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rings (1)
  • (-) Fiddlers (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Monterey (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (19)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (4)
  • Fleeman, Rod (3)
  • Kessler, Stan (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Bell, Aaron, 1922-2003 (1)
  • Dunbar, Ted, 1937-1998 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)

Date Published

  • 1990 (17)
  • 1985 (2)
  • (-) 1981 (19)

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