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Frank Smith, Jerry Leonard, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform at JJ's Restaurant

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In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith...

Date Published
August-01-1981
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long during a panel discussion

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Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long stand behind a table and look at the photographer during a panel discussion...

Date Published
May-12-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long during a panel discussion

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Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long stand behind a table and look at the photographer during a panel discussion...

Date Published
May-12-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony

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Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony in Kansas City. Front row from left to right: two unidentified men, an unidentified woman, Queen...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony

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Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony in Kansas City. Front row from left to right: two unidentified men, Carmell Jones, Queen Bey...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony

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Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony in Kansas City. Front row from left to right: an unidentified man, Carmell Jones, Queen Bey...

Date Published
1991
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 playing drums, Milt Abel...

Date Published
1991
1995
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, Milt Abel...

Date Published
1991
1995
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, Milt Abel...

Date Published
1991
1995
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 turning to the back while...

Date Published
1991
1995
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 in back playing bass...

Date Published
1991
1995
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: 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 to the side while...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Orestie "Rusty" Tucker Band at the Orchid Room

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Orestie "Rusty" Tucker Band at the Orchid Room on 12th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Rusty Tucker playing trumpet, Arthur...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Color photographs
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999

Member of

  • Betty Crow Collection (12)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (2)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (15)

Genres

  • Group portraits (14)
  • Snapshots (14)
  • Portrait photographs (11)
  • (-) Color photographs (15)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (15)
  • African American jazz musicians (14)
  • Keyboard players (9)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (8)
  • Double bassists (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (8)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • African American men (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Portraits, Group (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (14)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)

Subjects, People

  • Ruskin, Tommy (7)
  • Hamza, Luqman (5)
  • Hicks, Bryan (5)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (4)
  • Barry, Ken (4)
  • Brady, Leon (3)
  • Jones, Carmell (3)
  • Parkinson, Michael, 1950- (3)
  • Queen Bey (3)
  • Saunders, Eddie (3)
  • Simes, Bob (3)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (2)
  • Caldwell, Bill (Saxophonist) (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • Anderson, Jackie (Musician) (1)
  • Dixon, Donald (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jones, Willie, 1929-1991 (1)
  • Leonard, Jerry (Electric bass player) (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • Morrissey, Pat (Musician) (1)
  • Scott, Gerald (Musician) (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • (-) Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (15)

Events

  • Tradin' 4s Series: On the Cusp (1999 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)

Date Published

  • 1991 (8)
  • 1995 (6)
  • 1992 (3)
  • 1999 (3)
  • 1999-05-12 (2)
  • 1981-08-01 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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