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Ahmad Alaadeen at 18th and Vine

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Ahmad Alaadeen playing saxophone on the streets of the 18th and Vine District, possibly during an event in conjunction with Robert Altman's film...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen greeting his friend

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Standing outside a building among parked cars, possibly Sonny Kenner, from his right side, motions toward Ahmad Alaadeen. Ahmad is laughing and...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen on the street

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Ahmad Alaadeen and Carmell Jones, wearing a ball cap, with bags hanging from their right shoulders, walk on the street in the 18th and Vine District...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen singing while he performs

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, jeans, and a vest while singing into a microphone and holding his tenor saxophone at an unidentified venue and...

Date Published
1996
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Benny Carter and Ahmad Alaadeen play their saxes on the street

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Benny Carter and Ahmad Alaadeen play their saxophones on the street in the 18th and Vine District, possibly during an event in conjunction with Robert...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Chris Clarke, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Daahoud Williams perform at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Chris Clarke (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and David Daahoud Williams (bass) performing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Chris Clarke, Daahoud Williams, and Ahmad Alaadeen perform at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Chris Clarke (piano, mostly out of frame), David Daahoud Williams (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and an unidentified drummer performing at Mutual...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams leans as he plays his amplified fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly to the right as he plays his fiddle with an amplification cord from the fiddle to the power source on the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs on stage with fiddler Jonathan Blake and others

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An unidentified white male pianist, farthest left in the photograph, sits diagonally on the piano bench, turns his body toward the keys, and closes...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Daahoud Williams and Ahmad Alaadeen perform at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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David Daahoud Williams (bass), wearing a flat cap, and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) performing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Dana Bryant

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Dana Bryant, acid jazz performer, leans back on her side on a metal staircase and looks at the camera from under the rung of the handrail. Printed in...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Finger Roll

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Jazz duo Finger Roll (Thomas Dawson Jr., and Dennis Nelson) stand together as Dennis Nelson holds an acoustic guitar. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jay McShann greets Ahmad Alaadeen in the 18th and Vine District

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Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen shaking hands, flanked by Marianne McShann and Carmell Jones in the 18th and Vine District, possibly an event in...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Jay McShann holding his Pioneer Award

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Jay McShann holding his 1996 Pioneer Award plaque from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation; standing in front of a plastic sheet with the Rhythm & Blues...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann smiling for the camera

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Close up shot of Jay McShann smiling for the camera and an unidentified event in Brownsville, Nebraska; other people can be seen behind him.

Date Published
1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jazz Crusaders

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Jazz Crusaders, a jazz group including Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder, in a series of four photographs. The photograph on the left is Wayne...

Date Published
1995
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jeannie Cheatham and Gene Harris playing a duet

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Jeannie Cheatham playing a duet with Gene Harris at the piano during a tribute to Carl Jefferson; Harris' head is turned to the side to look at...

Date Published
1992
1996
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Joe Houston

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Jazz saxophonist Joe Houston stands in front of a palm tree, looking down, as he plays a tenor saxophone. He wears a double-breasted business suit and...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joe Houston

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Jazz saxophonist Joe Houston stands on stage and blows into a tenor saxophone. He wears sunglasses and a light colored shirt with large collar tips. A...

Date Published
1991
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joe Houston

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Jazz saxophonist Joe Houston in a close-up, head-shot photograph, wears sunglasses as he blows into the mouthpiece of a saxophone. Printed in the...

Date Published
1991
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joshua Redman

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Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman leans to the left in order to look at the camera from behind the neck of a saxophone. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joshua Redman

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Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman leans to the left in order to look at the camera from behind the neck of a saxophone. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Legendary Joe Houston

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Legendary jazz saxophonist Joe Houston turns to look back over his right shoulder and point at the camera. He wears a flat cap and sunglasses. He has...

Date Published
1991
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Movie set of "Kansas City"

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Crowd of musicians, photographers and others on a movie set; including Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen in 18th and Vine District, possibly an event in...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Taj Mahal

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Taj Mahal, blues and jazz musician, sits in a booth at a diner and smokes a cigar as he wears a straw hat and wears sunglasses. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (11)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (10)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (17)
  • Gelatin silver prints (17)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Publicity photographs (12)
  • Color photographs (9)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • Promotional photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (24)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (26)
  • Saxophonists (17)
  • African American men (14)
  • Pianists (7)
  • Motion picture locations (6)
  • Saxophone (5)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Acid jazz (1)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Award presentations (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (26)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (9)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (10)
  • McShann, Jay (5)
  • Houston, Joe (4)
  • Williams, David Daahoud, 1935-1988 (3)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (2)
  • Jones, Carmell (2)
  • Redman, Joshua (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Blake, John, 1947-2014 (1)
  • Bruce, Franz, 1916-1997 (1)
  • Bryant, Dana (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Clark, Benny (1)
  • Dawson, Thomas (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Felder, Wilton (1)
  • Harris, Gene, 1933-2000 (1)
  • Henderson, Wayne, 1939-2014 (1)
  • Jefferson, Carl E. (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Nelson, Dennis (Guitarist) (1)
  • Tisdale, Wayman, 1964-2009 (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (3)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • (-) 1996 (26)

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