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Ahmad Alaadeen greeting his friend

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Standing outside a building among parked cars, possibly Sonny Kenner, from his right side, motions toward Ahmad Alaadeen. Ahmad is laughing and...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a jazz combo outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

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Sonny Kenner (guitar), Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone), wearing a fedora, an unidentified drummer, and Tyrone Clark (bass) performing at an outdoor...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Luqman Hamza, and Sonny Kenner receive the Kansas City Jazz Heritage Award

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Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen and Sonny Kenner holding their Kansas City Jazz Heritage award plaques from the Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II at the Jazz...

Date Published
August-23-1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Alaadeen and the Deans of Swing perform indoors

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and the Deans of Swing, likely Everette Freeman (piano), Tyrone Clark (bass), Sonny Kenner (guitar), and likely Don...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

All of the Kansas City Jazz Heritage Award recipients seated at Saks Fifth Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri

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(Front row) Arch Martin, Luqman Hamza, an unidentified woman, and Frank Smith, (back row) Dick Wright, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, Eddie Saunders...

Date Published
August-23-1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Betty Crow, Sonny Kenner, and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Betty Crow is speaking to someone that is not visible to the right of the photograph. She stands behind Sonny Kenner who is bent slightly and smiling...

Date Published
January-13-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Closeup of Tyrone Clark and Sonny Kenner performing

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A closeup photograph of Tyrone Clark (bass) and Sonny Kenner (guitar), wearing a pith helmet, during a performance at an unidentified concert.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Eddie Saunders and Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Eddie Saunders, holding his saxophone on his lap and Sonny Kenner playing a guitar, put their heads together and smile while performing at the Kansas...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Group playing at 18th and Vine

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Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a...

Date Published
September-16-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jazz musicians at an unidentified venue

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Jazz musicians performing at an unidentified venue. From left to right: Sonny Kenner playing electric guitar, Al "Delightful De" Bartee playing drums...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Sonny Kenner receive the Jazz Heritage Award

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Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen and Sonny Kenner holding their Kansas City Jazz Heritage award plaques from the Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II at the Jazz...

Date Published
August-23-1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Sonny Kenner receive the Jazz Heritage Award

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Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen and Sonny Kenner holding their Kansas City Jazz Heritage award plaques from the Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II at the Jazz...

Date Published
August-23-1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Sonny Kenner and Al Bartee at an unidentified venue

Image

Sonny Kenner and Al "Delightful De" Bartee performing at an unidentified venue. Kenner is playing electric guitar while looking up and smiling. Bartee...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Sonny Kenner and an unidentified man at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Sonny Kenner and an unidentified man at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Kenner is playing an electric guitar while...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Sonny Kenner at Mill Creek Brewery

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Sonny Kenner, wearing a Fair Isle sweater, sings into a microphone as he plays an electric guitar at Mill Creek Brewery.

Date Published
March-01-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sonny Kenner at the Gem Theater

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Sonny Kenner, looks down at the neck of the guitar he's playing during the Living Blues Party Gem, Theater. The guitar is scratched and worn. Sonny...

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Sonny Kenner closes his eyes and smiles as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sonny Kenner at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Sonny Kenner at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Kenner is standing and playing an electric guitar with his eyes closed...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Sonny Kenner at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Sonny Kenner at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Kenner is standing and playing an electric guitar with his eyes closed...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Sonny Kenner performs on the Country Club Plaza

Image

Sonny Kenner (guitar), wearing a pith helmet, closes his eyes as he plays with an unidentified drummer during a performance at an outdoor concert on...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Sonny Kenner sings into a microphone as he performs with a jazz combo on the Country Club Plaza

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Sonny Kenner (guitar, vocals), wearing a pith helmet and bending his knees as he sings into a microphone, performs with an unidentified drummer, Ahmad...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Sonny Kenner sings into a microphone as he performs with a jazz combo on the Country Club Plaza

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Sonny Kenner (guitar, vocals), wearing a pith helmet, bending his knees, and raising his right arm as he sings into a microphone, performs with an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Sonny Kenner sings into a microphone as he performs with a jazz combo on the Country Club Plaza

Image

Sonny Kenner (guitar, vocals), wearing a pith helmet and bending his knees as he sings into a microphone, performs with an unidentified drummer...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Luqman Hamza during the Kansas City Jazz Heritage Award reception

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Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Luqman Hamza stand together and smile for the photographer during the Jazz Heritage Awards reception at Saks Fifth...

Date Published
August-23-1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, Linda Shell and others at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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Member of

  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (14)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (7)
  • Betty Crow Collection (5)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (26)
  • Group portraits (18)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (26)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (26)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (23)
  • Guitarists (21)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • African American guitarists (14)
  • Saxophonists (14)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (11)
  • Pianists (7)
  • African American men (6)
  • Blues musicians (5)
  • Guitar players (5)
  • Awards (4)
  • Bass guitarists (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Motion picture locations (1)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • 18th and Vine District (4)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (11)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (6)
  • Hamza, Luqman (6)
  • Bartee, Al (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Bruce, Franz, 1916-1997 (1)
  • Crow, Betty (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Freeman, Everett, Jr. (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Martin, Arch, 1931-2009 (1)
  • Mumford, Don (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Searcy, Roy (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Washington, Horace, 1952-2014 (1)
  • Wright, Dick, 1931-1999 (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)
  • (-) Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (26)

Events

  • Kansas City Jazz Heritage Awards (1991 : Kansas City, Mo.) (5)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (2)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (13)
  • 2000 (7)
  • 1991-08-23 (5)
  • 1995 (5)
  • 2000-06-24 (2)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1998-03-01 (1)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 2000-01-13 (1)
  • 2000-01-22 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)

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