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Angela Hagenbach sings

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Angela Hagenbach, wearing her hair in long braids and sunglasses on top of her head, closes her eyes and holds the microphone to her wide open mouth...

Date Published
February-22-1997
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Baby Lee at the Grand Emporium

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Baby Lee, from the left, sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand and points with her left hand at Divas Night Out at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
January-08-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bettye Jo Miller at the Phoenix

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Bettye Jo Miller, wearing an animal print dress, laughs and claps her hands from behind a microphone at the piano at the Phoenix.

Date Published
March-07-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Blaze at the Grand Emporium

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Blaze, makes fists, purses her lips and dances during the KC Blues and Jazz After Fest Jam at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
July-23-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Carol Duboc at the Grand Emporium

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Carol Duboc faces to the left of the photographer as she smiles and sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium. Her left hand lifted expressively...

Date Published
December-26-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Connie Hawkins at the Grand Emporium

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Connie Hawkins closes her eyes as she sings into a microphone she is holding at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
May-12-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Cotton Candy, wearing a dramatic hat and looking directly at the photographer, sings into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-18-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy Washington at the Grand Emporium

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Cotton Candy Washington sings into a microphone she is holding while she performs at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
April-12-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy Washington during the Living Blues weekend

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Cotton Candy Washington slants her eyes to the right with a smile on her face as she hold an unlit cigarette with long, long finger nails, long long...

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

Dave Stephens at the Hurricane

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Dave Stephens with a microphone near his mouth, is looking up to the left at his hand with finger spread. There is a cane topper visible in the...

Date Published
February-22-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

David Basse performs at the Grand Emporium

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David Basse sings into a microphone wearing a fedora. His right hand rests on the microphone as his left hand clutches the microphone stand during the...

Date Published
January-24-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Diane "Mama" Ray at the Grand Emporium

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Diane "Mama" Ray, holding a lit cigarette in her right hand and a microphone in her left hand, closes her eyes and sings into a microphone at the...

Date Published
February-27-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

DownBeat Magazine shoot at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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A bass player stands in the corner of the Mutual Musicians Foundation wearing a straw hat and looking down at the bass. Luqman Hamza sits at the piano...

Date Published
June-09-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Geneva Price at Jardine's

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Geneva Price sings into a microphone at Jardines. She's wearing a concha belt.

Date Published
June-05-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Geneva Price at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Geneva Price folds her hands in her lap as she sits sideways on a chair during the Living Blues weekend at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. She's...

Date Published
January-20-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Geneva Price, Myra Taylor, Lori Tucker, and Millie Edwards entertain

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A standing Geneva Price looks at Millie Edwards as she, Lori Tucker and Millie surround Myra Taylor seated in the middle holding a microphone. Known...

Date Published
February-02-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Gerald Dunn, Luqman Hamza, and Geneva Price at the Blue Room

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Gerald Dunn is blowing into an alto saxophone as he looks at Geneva Price. Luqman Hamza is playing a piano behind Geneva and turning his head to the...

Date Published
August-05-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Gig at Californo's

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Myra Taylor sits on a chair on the deck at Californo's while Millie Edwards, Geneva Price, and Lori Tucker sit on high top chairs. Bill Maness and...

Date Published
June-24-2004
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

Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

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Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.

Date Published
June-19-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

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Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.

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

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Ida McBeth, wearing a bejeweled pillbox hat, throws her head back and laughs as she stands on stage and holds a certificate which states "Unified...

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Ida McBeth looks coyly to her right as she sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Julie Major at the Grand Saloon

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Julie Major of the Twang Dang Poodles opens her mouth wide as she turns her head to her right to sing into a microphone and plays a tambourine at the...

Date Published
November-11-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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  • (-) Evie Quarles Collection (70)

Types

  • photographs (70)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (70)
  • Gelatin silver prints (70)
  • Portrait photographs (42)
  • Group portraits (28)
  • Snapshots (2)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (36)
  • 1991-2000 (34)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (56)
  • African American women (49)
  • African American jazz musicians (45)
  • Jazz musicians, White (20)
  • Women, White (18)
  • African American men (16)
  • Men, White (15)
  • Pianists (12)
  • Blues festivals (9)
  • Saxophonists (9)
  • Music festivals (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (6)
  • Guitarists (6)
  • Blues musicians (4)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Jazz festivals (4)
  • Authors, American (3)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Jazz audiences (2)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Baseball players--United States (1)
  • Caricatures and cartoons (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Interviewing on radio (1)
  • Limousines (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Radio broadcasting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Wake services (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (70)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (62)
  • 18th and Vine District (16)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (5)
  • Overland Park (Kan.) (1)
  • Washington Park (Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Taylor, Myra (20)
  • Price, Geneva (9)
  • Edwards, Millie (7)
  • Tucker, Lori (5)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (4)
  • McBeth, Ida (4)
  • Moore, Mary (4)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (4)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (3)
  • Hamza, Luqman (3)
  • Maye, Marilyn (3)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (3)
  • Welge, JĂĽrgen, 1955- (3)
  • Albright, James (Double bassist) (2)
  • Allyson, Karrin (2)
  • Bender, Carl (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Searcy, Roy (2)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Whitmer, Tim (2)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Baby Lee (1)
  • Basse, David (1)
  • Blaze (1)
  • Cox, Donald (1)
  • Cox, Pat (1)
  • Crow, Betty (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Duboc, Carol (1)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Firman, Roma (1)
  • Haddix, Chuck (1)
  • Hagenbach, Angela (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Hawkins, Connie (1)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Hunt, Kelley (1)
  • Hypolite, Harry (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • James, Sharon (Singer) (1)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Lady Red (1)
  • Major, Julie (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (1)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (1)
  • Miller, Bettye Jo (1)
  • Murphy, Mike, 1940-2011 (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • O'Neal, Jim, 1948- (1)
  • O'Neil, Buck, 1911-2006 (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Ray, Diane (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Smith, Lavay (1)
  • Stephens, Dave (Singer) (1)
  • Taj Mahal (Musician) (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Whitney, Marva (1)

Events

  • Living Blues Party (2000) (5)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (2)
  • K.C. Blues & Jazz After Fest Jam (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)
  • Mutual Musicians Foundation. Landmark Ceremony (2003) (1)

Date Published

  • 2000-01-08 (4)
  • 2000-01-22 (4)
  • 1999-09-18 (3)
  • 2001-06-29 (3)
  • 1998-01-07 (2)
  • 2005-06-08 (2)
  • 2005-06-17 (2)
  • 2005-06-25 (2)
  • 2006-02-24 (2)
  • 2006-06-05 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1997-02-22 (1)
  • 1998-02-22 (1)
  • 1998-07-18 (1)
  • 1998-08-05 (1)
  • 1998-11-28 (1)
  • 1999-01-14 (1)
  • 1999-01-24 (1)
  • 1999-02-27 (1)
  • 1999-09-05 (1)
  • 1999-09-16 (1)
  • 1999-09-17 (1)
  • 1999-09-19 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2000-01-13 (1)
  • 2000-01-20 (1)
  • 2000-03-07 (1)
  • 2000-06-09 (1)
  • 2000-07-22 (1)
  • 2000-07-23 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)
  • 2000-11-11 (1)
  • 2001-04-12 (1)
  • 2001-07-31 (1)
  • 2001-11-29 (1)
  • 2001-12-26 (1)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2002-02-06 (1)
  • 2002-02-28 (1)
  • 2002-06-21 (1)
  • 2002-07-21 (1)
  • 2002-12-26 (1)
  • 2003-03-02 (1)
  • 2003-05-23 (1)
  • 2003-10-25 (1)
  • 2004-06-04 (1)
  • 2004-06-24 (1)
  • 2005-02-02 (1)
  • 2005-05-12 (1)
  • 2005-06-18 (1)
  • 2005-06-19 (1)
  • 2006-12-14 (1)
  • 2007-07-25 (1)

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