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Jay McShann and others on stage during a IAJRC concert

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Jay McShann playing piano on stage during an IAJRC conference concert in Kansas City; (Jay McShann, piano; Claude Williams, violin; Ben Kynard...

Date Published
August-16-1985
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jazz musicians at an unidentified venue

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Jazz musicians performing at an unidentified venue. Oscar "Lucky" Wesley is playing bass and looking to the right. Sonny Kenner is playing electric...

Date Published
July-1992
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at The Phoenix

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Jazz musicians performing at The Phoenix on 8th and Central in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Wayne Ruppenthal playing trumpet and facing...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at The Phoenix

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Jazz musicians performing at The Phoenix on 8th and Central in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Wayne Ruppenthal playing trumpet and facing...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Lucky Wesley and Ben Kynard visit the Blue Room

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Lucky Wesley, Ben Kynard, and an unidentified African American man sit in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of...

Date Published
March-01-2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Lucky Wesley at The Phoenix

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Lucky Wesley at The Phoenix on 8th and Central in Kansas City, Missouri. Wesley is holding a bass and looking to the side. An unidentified man is...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow 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
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Member of

  • Betty Crow Collection (4)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (4)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (9)

Genres

  • Group portraits (9)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • (-) Color photographs (9)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (4)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (9)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Jazz musicians (8)
  • African American men (5)
  • Saxophonists (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Central Street (3)

Subjects, People

  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (6)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (3)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (2)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (2)
  • Ruppenthal, Wayne (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • (-) Wesley, Lucky (9)

Events

  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (3)
  • 1995 (3)
  • 2001-02-19 (3)
  • 1985-08-16 (1)
  • 1992-07 (1)
  • 2010-03-01 (1)

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