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Ahmad Alaadeen and a jazz band teacher play with the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band

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An unidentified jazz band director and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) rehearsing at the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts jazz band.

Date Published
March-20-1993
June-21-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and a jazz combo at BBs Lawnside BBQ

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), sits listening in the center of an unidentified acoustic guitarist and electric bass player while performing at BB's...

Date Published
November-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Cotton Candy at BB's Lawnside BBQ

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Ahmad Alaadeen, holding a tenor sax, an unidentified bass player, and Cotton Candy listen to an unidentified electric guitarist and an acoustic...

Date Published
November-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Cotton Candy perform at BB's Lawnside BBQ

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Ahmad Alaadeen sits on a barstool playing a tenor saxophone as Cotton Candy, wearing a red sequined hat and multi-colored sequined blouse, sits at a...

Date Published
November-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Cotton Candy perform with a jazz combo at BB's Lawnside BBQ

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), unidentified bass player, Cotton Candy (vocals), unidentified (electric guitar); performing at BB's Lawnside BBQ in Kansas...

Date Published
November-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen imitates Cotton Candy at BB's Lawnside BBQ

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) imitates Cotton Candy's stance as an unidentified acoustic guitarist and bass player perform at BB's Lawnside BBQ in Kansas...

Date Published
November-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen joins the local jazz combo on stage

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An unidentified alto saxophone player, piano player, Ahmad Alaadeen (soprano saxophone), and an unidentified bass player performing onstage during a...

Date Published
2004
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen laughs with Tim Perryman

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Tim Perryman (trombone, back to camera), causes Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) to laugh, as Everette Freeman (piano) and Ricky Anderson (bass) perform at...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a jazz combo at BBs Lawnside BBQ

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An unidentified woman sits at a table with Cotton Candy, wearing a red sequined hat and multi-colored sequined blouse as she claps her hands. An...

Date Published
November-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

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

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An unidentified drummer, Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) wearing a fedora, and Tyrone Clark (bass) perform at an outdoor concert on the Country Club Plaza...

Date Published
1991
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 performs with a jazz combo outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

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A guitar neck is visible as well as a drum set behind Ahmad Alaadeen (soprano saxophone), wearing a fedora, Tyrone Clark (bass), and an unidentified...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a quartet outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

Image

An unidentified drummer, Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone), wearing a fedora, Tyrone Clark (bass), and an unidentified pianist perform at an outdoor...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a quartet outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

Image

An unidentified drummer, Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone), wearing a fedora, Tyrone Clark (bass), and an unidentified pianist perform at an outdoor...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a quartet outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

Image

An unidentified drummer, Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone), wearing a fedora, Tyrone Clark (bass), and an unidentified pianist perform at an outdoor...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a quartet outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

Image

An unidentified drummer, Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone), wearing a fedora, Tyrone Clark (bass), and an unidentified pianist perform at an outdoor...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with a quartet outdoors on the Country Club Plaza

Image

An unidentified drummer, Ahmad Alaadeen (tenor saxophone), wearing a fedora, Tyrone Clark (bass), and an unidentified pianist perform at an outdoor...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen works with Navarro College Jazz Band students

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[From attached caption:] "Alaadeen, Navarro College Jazz Band, and Lower Beaton Street clarinet player Jim Brimer perform at the Corsicana State Home...

Date Published
March-01-1996
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Carmell Jones, and LaVerne Barker performing as part of the City Light Orchestra

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Ahmad Alaadeen performing with Carmell Jones (trumpet) and LaVerne Barker (bass) of the City Light Orchestra at the City Light Restaurant and Bar...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Cotton Candy and a bass player share in a conversation at BB's Lawnside BBQ

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) and Cotton Candy (vocals) sit and talk with an unidentified bass player at BB's Lawnside BBQ in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
November-2004
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

Anthony Gomes and Biscuit Miller at a Weston Festival

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Anthony Gomes and Biscuit Miller, one of the national acts at a Weston, Missouri, Festival, perform together. Anthony Gomes grins over his left...

Date Published
June-05-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Blue City Band performing

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Four members of the five member Blue City Band, a blues band comprised of three white men and two African American men, perform in a tent. Farthest to...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buckwheat Zydeco

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Buckwheat Zydeco, zydeco accordion player and singer, plays an accordion and sings into a microphone on a stage with five other African American...

Date Published
March-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Carol Fran, Myra Taylor, and Bob Stroger at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

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Bob Stroger, wearing a cowboy hat with a peacock feather in the hat band, crouches down to the left of a seated Myra Taylor and Carol Fran and extends...

Date Published
October-18-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (31)
  • Betty Crow Collection (27)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (17)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (17)
  • Ed Dix Collection (8)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (104)

Genres

  • Color photographs (61)
  • Black & white photographs (43)
  • Gelatin silver prints (42)
  • Snapshots (39)
  • Portrait photographs (28)
  • Publicity photographs (11)
  • Photocopies (2)
  • Photographic postcards (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (104)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (60)
  • 2001-2010 (29)
  • 1981-1990 (14)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (65)
  • African American jazz musicians (58)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (57)
  • Saxophonists (50)
  • Guitarists (45)
  • Keyboard players (34)
  • Men, White (33)
  • Blues musicians (25)
  • African American men (23)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (18)
  • Singers (18)
  • Jazz singers (15)
  • Bands (Music) (12)
  • Trumpet players (12)
  • Pianists (11)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (10)
  • African American guitarists (8)
  • African American women jazz singers (8)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Women singers (7)
  • Double bassists (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Guitar players (5)
  • Harmonica players (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Fiddlers (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Music students (3)
  • Percussionists (3)
  • Rock musicians (3)
  • Accordionists (2)
  • Blues-rock music (2)
  • Keyboardists (2)
  • Mandolinists (2)
  • Music fans (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Americana (Music) (1)
  • Bass guitar (1)
  • Brothers (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Folk-rock music (1)
  • Music teachers (1)
  • Ocean liner passengers (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Punk rock musicians (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • Zydeco musicians (1)
  • (-) Bass guitarists (104)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (41)
  • 18th and Vine District (9)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Salina (Kan.) (1)
  • Washington Park (Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Weston (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (31)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (11)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (9)
  • Loon, Harry Van (7)
  • Bartee, Al (6)
  • Foster, Dwight (6)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (6)
  • Wilkinson, Todd R. (6)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (5)
  • Barker, LaVerne (4)
  • Ecker, Jay (4)
  • Harmon, Brian (Musician) (4)
  • Hicks, Bryan (4)
  • Simon, Jeff (4)
  • Basse, David (2)
  • Freeman, Everett, Jr. (2)
  • Hamza, Luqman (2)
  • Holmes, Sherman (2)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (2)
  • Jones, Carmell (2)
  • Lee, Marcellus (2)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (2)
  • Todd, Oliver, 1916-2001 (2)
  • Whitmer, Tim (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Ackley, Jeremy (1)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Allyson, Karrin (1)
  • Anderson, Ricky (1)
  • Angerer, Karl (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Bibb, Eric (1)
  • Bishop, Elvin (1)
  • Blazek, Allan (1)
  • Bowman, Warren, 1934-2003 (1)
  • Breihan, Jeff (1)
  • Bronze, Dave (1)
  • Brookmeyer, Bob, 1929-2011 (1)
  • Broussard, Rick (1)
  • Cate, Earl (1)
  • Cate, Ernie (1)
  • Champlin, Bill (1)
  • Christensen, Jack (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Christensen, Jason (1)
  • Cox, Steve (Singer) (1)
  • Daniel, Scott (Musician) (1)
  • DeMasters, Tom (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Doder, Keith (1)
  • Duarte, Chris (1)
  • Dural, Buckwheat, 1947-2016 (1)
  • Edmonson, Eddie (1)
  • Ellis, Betse (1)
  • Faircloth, Jan (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Finnigan, Mike (1)
  • Fran, Carol, 1933- (1)
  • Fulcher, Larry (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Garoutte, Jacque (1)
  • Gawron, Nate (1)
  • Gilmore, Johnny (1)
  • Gomes, Anthony (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Hudson, Garth (1)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (1)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Jones, Rich (Sound engineer) (1)
  • Jordan, John (1)
  • Kelly, Pat (Drummer) (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Kinsey, Donald, 1953- (1)
  • Kinsey, Kenneth (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Kinsey, Ralph (Drummer) (1)
  • Lawrence, Trevor (Trevor Anthony) (1)
  • Leonard, Jerry (Electric bass player) (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • Matthews, William (Guitarist) (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • McWilliams, Herschel (1)
  • Meade, Jimmie (1)
  • Miller, Biscuit (1)
  • Morlan, Bill (1)
  • Mumford, Don (1)
  • Murphy, Matt (Guitarist) (1)
  • Murray, Landon (1)
  • Nicole, Danielle (1)
  • Ning, Mike (1)
  • Nulisch, Darrell (1)
  • Osborn, Tim (1)
  • Oswald, Doug (1)
  • Oswald, Sherry (1)
  • Pegg, Dave (1)
  • Perryman, Tim (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Pruitt, Dave (Guitarist) (1)
  • Pruitt, Dick (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Quintero, Cardy (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Reilly, Mike, 1958- (1)
  • Reynolds, Tim, 1957- (1)
  • Riccardi, Jerry (1)
  • Richardson, Kenny (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Rollings, Mark (1)
  • Ross, Houston (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Scofield, Paul (1)
  • Sedovic, Mike (1)
  • Shelton, Ike (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Snow, Jon (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Stroger, Bob (1)
  • Taj Mahal (Musician) (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Thompson, Richard, 1949- (1)
  • Thompson, Ron (Guitarist) (1)
  • Tims, David (1)
  • Wade, Phil (1)
  • West, Brian (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Whitehead, Bill (Guitarist) (1)
  • Williams, Rich, 1950- (1)
  • Woodford, David (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Wray, Link (1)

Events

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  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (5th : 2002 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise II (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (32)
  • 1995 (18)
  • 2000 (16)
  • 1992-10 (9)
  • 2004-11 (9)
  • 2001 (7)
  • 2010 (6)
  • 1983 (4)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1986 (3)
  • 1990 (3)
  • 1985 (2)
  • 1992 (2)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 2003-11-05 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1981-08-01 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1985-08 (1)
  • 1987-01 (1)
  • 1987-03 (1)
  • 1987-06 (1)
  • 1987-07 (1)
  • 1992-01 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1993-03-20 (1)
  • 1993-06-21 (1)
  • 1994-01-07 (1)
  • 1996-03-01 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 1998-05-26 (1)
  • 1998-06-30 (1)
  • 1998-07-11 (1)
  • 1999-04-23 (1)
  • 1999-11-29 (1)
  • 2000-02-25 (1)
  • 2000-06-09 (1)
  • 2001-02-18 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2002-09-05 (1)
  • 2002-10-18 (1)
  • 2002-11-14 (1)
  • 2002-11-20 (1)
  • 2003-08-03 (1)
  • 2004-03-10 (1)
  • 2004-06-05 (1)

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