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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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he plays

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his left side, closes his eyes as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, slanted photograph.

Date Published
1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams furrows his brow as he performs with his fiddle

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In a close-up photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and furrows his brow as he draws his bow across his fiddle during a performance. A...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams gives a slight smile as he performs

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles slightly as he plays his fiddle in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.

Date Published
1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams gives a slight smile as he performs

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles slightly as he plays his fiddle in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.

Date Published
1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his fiddle as he performs

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the strings of his fiddle as he draws his bow across them in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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

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

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

photographs of photographers during the 21-sax salute at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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Blanche and Claude "Fiddler" Williams (and others) during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery in Kansas City...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen 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

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

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An unidentified saxophonist, Sonny Kenner, unidentified saxophonist wearing an orange shirt, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white ball cap, unidentified...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Speedy Huggins

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Jazz drummer and dancer Speedy Huggins sits at a bar and leans his head on his left hand that holds a cigarette. A glass with a drink in it sits on...

Date Published
1985
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Speedy Huggins

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Jazz drummer and dancer Speedy Huggins sits and looks to his left at the photographer. He wears a graphic print short-sleeved shirt.

Date Published
1985
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (11)
  • Betty Crow Collection (7)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (5)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Color photographs (21)
  • Portrait photographs (18)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Black & white photographs (5)
  • Gelatin silver prints (5)
  • Publicity photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (21)
  • 1981-1990 (2)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (26)
  • Saxophonists (17)
  • African American men (8)
  • Fiddlers (8)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (7)
  • Double bassists (7)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Violinists (3)
  • Dancers (2)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Jazz-rock (Music) (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (26)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (10)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (8)
  • Barry, Ken (7)
  • Hicks, Bryan (7)
  • Saunders, Eddie (7)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (5)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (4)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (3)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (2)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Briggs, Karen (Violinist) (1)
  • Clarke, Stanley (1)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Kotzen, Richie (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • White, Lenny (1)
  • Z., Rachel (1)

Events

  • 21-Sax Salute (Kansas City, Mo.) (6)

Date Published

  • 1992 (7)
  • 1991 (6)
  • 1985 (2)
  • (-) 1999 (26)

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