Bobby Watson, wearing a fedora and suspenders, closes his eyes as he plays an alto saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Charlie Musselwhite smiles down to his right as he sits behind a microphone playing a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Clarence Gatemouth Brown, wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, from his left side, smiles as he bows a violin during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador...
Henry Butler, wearing sunglasses, sits and plays a grand piano during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The stage lights are above his head...
Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
Henry Townsend, face just visible above a piano, wears a ball cap and sings intensely into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival...
Hubert Sumlin, wearing a fedora with a striped hatband and sunglasses, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar as he performs during the Kansas...
Jay McShann playing piano during the July 2000 Kansas City Jazz Festival in Kansas City, Missouri.
Jay McShann standing up from his piano and reaching out to receive plaque award from an unidentified man at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jay McShann leaning in and sharing a laugh with Myra Taylor during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival Media Day; both seated with people seen...
Kermit Ruffins, wearing a fedora, from his right side, blows into a trumpet lifted high during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Lavay Smith, wearing a tropical sundress and a flower in her hair, smiles as she sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand during the Kansas...
Little Milton Campbell, rolling his top lip over his lower lip, as he plays an electric guitar during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Long John Hunter, of the band Lonestar Shootout, wears a straw fedora and looks seriously over his left shoulder as he plays an electric guitar during...
Lonnie Brooks of the band, Lonestar Shootout, wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy shirt, looks up as he plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City...
Phillip Walker, of the band, Lonestar Shootout, wearing a cowboy hat, bolo tie, and western vest, smiles over his right shoulder as he plays a guitar...
Robert Lockwood, Jr., wearing a flat cap, purses his lips during a close-up photo is taken of his face and guitar headstock during the Kansas City...
Robert Lockwood, Jr., wearing a flatcap, looks seriously over a microphone as he holds an electric guitar on his lap during the Kansas City Blues and...
Robert Lockwood, Jr., one of the national acts to appear at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, looks seriously out over a microphone as he...
Ron Edwards looks down at the neck of a guitar he is playing with a bottleneck during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
