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Adam Page and Duck Warner at the Gem Theater

Image

Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party...

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

Duck Warner, Hugh Ruddick, Len Bacoski, and Richard Townsend outside on a bench

Image

Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the...

Date Published
April-10-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jazz musicians 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: an unidentified man playing congas...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians 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: an unidentified man playing congas...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians 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 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: an unidentified man playing congas...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians 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, Duck...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Lester "Duck" Warner

Image

Lester "Duck" Warner sit and plays a trumpet in a fedora hat in front of a drum set at Mississippi Graces in Kansas City, KS.

Date Published
January-16-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lester "Duck" Warner at Rhythm and Ribs

Image

Lester "Duck" Warner, from the right, wearing a straw flat cap, blows into a valve trombone during Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.

Date Published
June-17-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lester "Duck" Warner performs at the Grand Emporium

Image

Lester "Duck" Warner, wearing a fedora and a bead necklace, blows into a trumpet at a microphone at the Grand Emporium. The photograph includes Lester...

Date Published
January-14-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Warner, Duck

Member of

  • Betty Crow Collection (5)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (5)

Types

  • photographs (10)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (10)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (10)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (9)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (9)
  • Jazz musicians (9)
  • Trumpet players (9)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (5)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Blues musicians (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Trombonists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)
  • 18th and Vine District (2)

Subjects, People

  • Ruskin, Tommy (5)
  • Smith, Paul (Paul E.) (5)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (4)
  • Barry, Ken (2)
  • Bacoski, Len (1)
  • Page, Adam (Guitarist) (1)
  • Ruddick, Hugh (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • (-) Warner, Duck (10)

Events

  • Living Blues Party (2000) (1)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (5)
  • 1995 (5)
  • 1999-01-14 (1)
  • 1999-01-16 (1)
  • 2000-01-22 (1)
  • 2000-04-10 (1)
  • 2005-06-17 (1)

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