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Alison Krauss and Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Alison Krauss smiles as she stands next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at Carnegie Hall. Claude points at the camera as he smiles. He wears a tuxedo.

Date Published
1990
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Alvin Brooks helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 92nd birthday

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the right side of the photograph beside Alvin Brooks, and laughs as Alvin speaks into a microphone on the occasion...

Date Published
February-21-2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Banners used for advertising in Birmingham, England

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A close-up photograph of two banners hanging on the exterior of the Birmingham Strathallan Hotel, 225 Hagley Road in Birmingham, England. The top...

Date Published
1980
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Buddy Tate head into the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Buddy Tate sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at a restaurant table and grin at the camera.

Date Published
February-22-1991
February-22-2000
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he leans and plays his fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and bends slightly to the right as he plays his fiddle between a chair and a microphone in front of drapes. His eyes...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the camera as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, head-shot publicity photograph.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes tight as he draws the bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Only the peg box, neck, and upper bout of his fiddle are visible in the lower...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as he pulls the bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, publicity photograph. A...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams rests his right foot on a low brick wall and leans his left elbow on his bent knee as he smiles into the camera for a...

Date Published
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams in a publicity photograph

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams from his right side, smiles as he draws the bow across the strings of his fiddle. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Printed in...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams leans as he plays his amplified fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly to the right as he plays his fiddle with an amplification cord from the fiddle to the power source on the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down as he plays his fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down as he plays his fiddle. He wears a large-checked suit jacket with wide lapels.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at West End Gate

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as the plays his fiddle on the stage of the West End Gate bar in New York, N.Y. An unidentified...

Date Published
1981
1990
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs on stage with fiddler Jonathan Blake and others

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An unidentified white male pianist, farthest left in the photograph, sits diagonally on the piano bench, turns his body toward the keys, and closes...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with Frank Smith in a quartet

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Frank Smith, piano, on the left side of the photograph, turns his head to looks seriously at the photographer as he plays a piano he is seated at...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays the Jazz Church

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the interior steps of the Jazz Church, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with Luqman Hamza and Rusty Tucker

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On the left side of the photograph at an unidentified venue, possibly the Mutual Musicians Foundation, Musicians Local 627, in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams, and Buck O'Neil visit in front of a food truck

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns his head to look at the camera as he stands in front of a food truck with his wife, Blanche, smiling and standing in...

Date Published
September-29-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Focused

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Double bassist Aaron Bell sits on a stool on the left side of the photograph and looks up at Claude "Fiddler" Williams across the stage, as he plucks...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Group photo of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and seven others

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Group photo with (L-R) Paul Gunther, Little Brother Montgomery, unidentified, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jay McShann, Claude Williams (holding sheet of paper)...

Date Published
1971
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

House

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A large house on a lot with a chain-link fenced. A three-layer rock wall is between the fence and the sidewalk. A large tree is in the front yard and...

Date Published
February-01-1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Johnny Crawford sings as the band accompanies him

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Rusty Tucker, drummer; Ben Kynard, saxophone; Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing a Danelectro double guitar; and possibly Pearl Thuston, piano, smile...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Sappy

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Publicity photograph of "Sappy," a bluegrass and cowboy music performer playing a broken acoustic guitar, wearing a worn cowboy hat sideways on his...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Series of three photographs of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams blowing up modeling balloons

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In a series of three photographs, Claude "Fiddler" Williams blows up a modeling balloon as he is in a big crowd. Blanche Williams blows up a modeling...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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  • (-) Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (25)

Types

  • photographs (25)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (25)
  • Portrait photographs (10)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Publicity photographs (9)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (25)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (23)
  • African American jazz musicians (22)
  • African American men (22)
  • Fiddlers (21)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Men, White (5)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Bluegrass musicians (2)
  • Musicians' spouses (2)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Civil rights workers (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Music-halls (1)
  • Negro leagues (1)
  • Newspapers (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)
  • Birmingham (England) (2)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (23)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (3)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (2)
  • Bell, Aaron, 1922-2003 (1)
  • Blake, John, 1947-2014 (1)
  • Bresler, Fishel Michael (1)
  • Brooks, Alvin L., 1932- (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Dennis, Fats (1)
  • Dunbar, Ted, 1937-1998 (1)
  • Gunther, Paul (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Krauss, Alison, 1971- (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Lyttelton, Humphrey, 1921-2008 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Montgomery, Little Brother, 1906-1985 (1)
  • Nasser, Jamil (1)
  • O'Neil, Buck, 1911-2006 (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (1)

Date Published

  • 1971 (9)
  • 1980 (9)
  • 1990 (3)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1961 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1990-02-01 (1)
  • 1991-02-22 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000-02-21 (1)
  • 2000-02-22 (1)
  • 2001-09-29 (1)

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