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Ahmad Alaadeen performs at the Blue Room

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Ahmad Alaadeen, only head to hands visible, blows into a soprano saxophone at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine for the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson and Claude "Fiddler Williams at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson, with pony tail and holding an alto saxophone, smiles to his left at Claude" Fiddler" Williams who is playing the fiddle with his eyes...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson holds an alto saxophone and smiles to his left at Claude "Fiddler" Williams closing his eyes and playing the fiddle at the Blue Room...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson performs at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson, wearing an earring, blows into an alto saxophone in front of a microphone at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine for the occasion of Claude...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

Date Published
February-19-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his table in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at something on the table he is sitting at in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

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On the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration, he signs an autograph for an unidentified African American woman who bends...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns 93

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams is smiling as he speaks into a microphone while standing in front of a drawing of himself playing the fiddle that. The...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Rusty Tucker of the Scamps at the Blue Room

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Rusty Tucker, trumpet, of the Scamps, stands in front of the piano to speak into a microphone on the stage at the Blue Room in the American Jazz...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Scamps are prepared to perform in the Blue Room

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The Scamps are on stage of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. Arthur Jackson, saxophone...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Scamps perform in the Blue Room

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The Scamps (Luqman Hamza playing piano, Arthur Jackson and Eddie Saunders holding saxophones and talking to each other, Rusty Tucker holding a trumpet...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Tim Perryman performs at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Tim Perryman, wearing a striped suit with wide lapels, blows into a trombone at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler"...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Tyrone Clark performs at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Tyrone Clark stands with his right side facing the photographer as he plucks the upright bass at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine on the occasion of Claude...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 2001-02-19
  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (7)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (7)

Types

  • photographs (14)

Genres

  • Group portraits (8)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Portrait photographs (6)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (7)

Subjects

  • African American men (14)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • Fiddlers (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Music fans (4)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Music audiences (3)
  • Violinists (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Autographs (2)
  • Musicians' spouses (2)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (14)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (14)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (7)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (3)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (3)
  • Wesley, Lucky (3)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (2)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Pearson, Al (1)
  • Perryman, Tim (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)

Date Published

  • (-) 2001-02-19 (14)

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