Ahmad Alaadeen, Carmell Jones, and LaVerne Barker performing as part of the City Light Orchestra
Ahmad Alaadeen performing with Carmell Jones (trumpet) and LaVerne Barker (bass) of the City Light Orchestra at the City Light Restaurant and Bar...
Ahmad Alaadeen performing with Carmell Jones (trumpet) and LaVerne Barker (bass) of the City Light Orchestra at the City Light Restaurant and Bar...
Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), looks straight at the photographer with a surprised face. David Basse (vocal), standing and singing into a microphone...
Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's...
Buck Clayton, Joe Newman, and Earle Warren, all wearing hats, seated at a bar's outdoor table having drinks.
Publicity photograph of the City Light Orchestra: Tim Whitmer, LaVerne Barker, David Basse, wearing a fedora, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Jano Mossman...
A postcard of The City Light Orchestra performing: Tim Whitmer (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), LaVerne Barker (bass), David Basse (drums). The...
Carmell Jones (trumpet, LaVerne Barker (bass), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), stand on stage at City Light Restaurant and Bar, Kansas City, MO and...
City Light Orchestra: David Basse (drums), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), unidentified bass player, unidentified (saxophone), unidentified (trumpet)...
Publicity reproduction of a painting featuring portraits of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and "Big Mama" Thornton arranged against a background of...
Buck Clayton speaking with an unidentified white woman at night near a sign at a concert in Nice, France.
Group shot taken during the Sarasota Jazz Festival: Buddy Tate (extreme left), Milt Hinton (seventh from left), Jay McShann (third from front right)...
Jay McShann seated on outdoor bench in Geneva; an unidentified African American man is leaning over to speak with him; other people can be partially...
Jay McShann (left) posing for a photo with his cousin Marrele Overstreet (right) with Marrele's wife Dorothy (center); Detroit, Michigan.
The Jay McShann Trio: Jay McShann flanked by Jimmy McGriff and Jackie Williams; seated in a hotel room during a jazz festival in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jeannie Wallace (right), standing arm in arm on stage with "Big Mama" Thornton (center), and Sippie Wallace (left); Thornton and Wallace both are...
Jeannie Cheatham seated at a piano on stage while looking over at Sippie Wallace in a hat standing in front of a microphone and looking to the right...
Jeannie Cheatham standing next to a piano on stage while looking over at Sippie Wallace in a hat standing and singing in front of a microphone; part...
Sippie Wallace on stage with Big Mama Thornton and Jeannie Cheatham with Jimmy Cheatham and his trombone standing behind them; Big Mama Thornton is...
Sippie Wallace on stage with Big Mama Thornton and Jeannie Cheatham with Jimmy Cheatham and his trombone standing behind them and an unidentified...
Publicity photo for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" (filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach) featuring a performance shot of...
A split photograph of the band Mighty Flyers on the left and Otis Rush on the right. The Mighty Flyers, a blues band comprised of one white woman...
Buddy Tate, Jay McShann, and Francis Williams are performing on stage with Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians on an outdoor stage in...
Buddy Tate, Francis Williams, Buck Clayton and one other performing on stage in Nice, France.
S.D.I. (Strategic Dance Initiative), (formerly the Blue Riddim Band), a reggae band from Kansas City, Missouri comprised of five white men, all...