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Ahmad Alaadeen appreciating Jay McShann's piano talents

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Jay McShann from his left side, watching his hands as he plays piano. A microphone is visible at the top of the photograph. A cloth lies across the...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen intensely plays the saxophone

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Ahmad Alaadeen, from his left side, stands and scrunches his face while playing a saxophone.

Date Published
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen plays a tenor saxophone during a performance

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Close-up of Ahmad Alaadeen performing by playing a tenor saxophone with an unidentified school jazz band who are not in the photograph.

Date Published
1999
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen plays a tenor saxophone during a performance

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Close-up of Ahmad Alaadeen performing by playing a tenor saxophone with an unidentified school jazz band who are not in the photograph.

Date Published
1999
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen smiles as the students perform

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Ahmad Alaadeen turns to his left and smiles at a student saxophone players performing on stage with an unidentified school jazz band.

Date Published
1999
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Baron Shul

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Baron Shul, saxophonist for the jazz swing band Indigo Swing, stands by a beam and looks tiredly off to his right. He holds a tenor saxophone with...

Date Published
1998
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet

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Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet, comprised of four white women and one white man, play jazz, soul, and funk music, stand together laughing. One band...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Grover Washington, Jr.

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Grover Washington, Jr., jazz saxophonist, leans back, closes his eyes, and blows into a saxophone.

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin playing drums while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin looking up and to the...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Bryan Hicks looking to the side while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Rusking (partially off camera)...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin looking down while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin looking down while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Bryan Hicks looking to the side while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Bryan Hicks playing bass, Sylvia Bell...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin playing drums, Bryan...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin looking to the side while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin looking to the side while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin looking to the side while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Johnny Firmin with Kim Nalley

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Saxophonist John Firmin, of the Johnny Nocturne Band, squats behind vocalist Kim Nalley who sits in front of John holding his saxophone but looking...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Saxophonists at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white ball cap, unidentified, unidentified, Arthur Jackson, unidentified (squatting), Gerald Dunn, John Henry Hoard, Ronald...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Saxophonists at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (mostly out of frame), unidentified (with news camera), unidentified, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white ball cap, unidentified (mostly...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Saxophonists play as a crowd watches at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (with news camera), unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Saxophonists play as a crowd watches at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (in background, mostly obscured), unidentified, unidentified, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white ball cap...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

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Member of

  • Betty Crow Collection (12)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (10)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (4)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Color photographs (20)
  • Group portraits (19)
  • Portrait photographs (17)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Publicity photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (26)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (25)
  • African American jazz musicians (17)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (12)
  • Double bassists (12)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (9)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Women singers (4)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Soul musicians (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Saxophonists (26)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (12)

Subjects, People

  • Hicks, Bryan (12)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (10)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (9)
  • Barry, Ken (7)
  • Saunders, Eddie (7)
  • Godbey, Russ (4)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (4)
  • Bell, Sylvia (3)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (3)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Ning, Mike (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Firmin, John (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Nalley, Kim (1)
  • Shul, Baron (1)
  • Washington, Grover, Jr., 1943-1999 (1)
  • White, Ned (Musician) (1)

Events

  • 21-Sax Salute (Kansas City, Mo.) (5)

Date Published

  • 1992 (12)
  • 1991 (7)
  • 1998 (1)
  • (-) 1999 (26)

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