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Band listens to Bobby Watson and Tyrone Clark play

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The band watches Bobby Watson play an alto saxophone in a tent with open sides. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool in the left foreground...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Richard Ross perform at the Levee

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he stands and plucks his fiddle beside Richard Ross, who is singing into a microphone at the Levee Bar & Grill on...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoys performing at the Levee

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the camera as he stands on stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, snapping his...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Ross, singer...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at the Levee

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Ross, singer...

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

Eddie Saunders is surprised by Lisa Henry as Ida McBeth looks on

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Eddie Saunders, holding a saxophone, opens his mouth in surprise at Lisa Henry, jazz singer, who is mostly obscured by Ida McBeth, jazz singer. Ida...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Houston Person and Etta Jones perform at the Tony Williams Jazz Fest

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Houston Person stands on a stage in a room with a pink-draped ceiling while he plays his tenor saxophone and looks out over the audience at the Tony...

Date Published
August-31-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ida McBeth and Lisa Henry watch the band play

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, slightly bends his knees as he stands and looks down at the fiddle he is playing with his bow. He wears a fedora hat. Lisa...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ida McBeth sings with the band in the festival tent

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Ida McBeth closes her eyes and lifts her head as she sits on a tall stool and sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand. She expressively...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ida McBeth sings with the band in the festival tent

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Ida McBeth lifts her head and sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she sits on a tall stool in a tent with open sides. Claude...

Date Published
September-15-2001
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

Larry Holloway, on the bass, and Richard Ross, singing, perform at the Levee

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Richard Ross stands and smiles as he sings into a microphone he is holding in his left hand. Larry Holloway is playing the double bass behind Richard...

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

Lisa Henry and Ida McBeth watch the band play

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Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool sideways to the camera and looks back at the band performing in a tent with open sides. Lisa Henry sits...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Lisa Henry and the band perform

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Eddie Saunders sits and plays a baritone saxophone while Tyrone Clark stands and plays double bass and Chris Clarke sits plays the keyboard. Tyrone...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Lisa Henry sings

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Lisa Henry closes her eyes and smiles as she stands and sings inside a tent without sides. Eddie Saunders with his saxophone lying across his lap...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Lisa Henry sings as Eddie Saunders and Ida McBeth look at each other

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Lisa Henry, jazz singer, closes her eyes and grins as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Myra Taylor, Clark Terry, Sam Johnson, Mary Moore, Pearl Thuston, and Luqman Hamza gather together for a photograph

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Group shot of Sam Johnson, farthest left, Ahmad Alaadeen (third from right), Pearl Thuston (second from right), Luqman Hamza (far right), Myra Taylor...

Date Published
May-02-2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Richard Ross sings into a microphone at the Levee

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Richard Ross stands and speaks into a microphone from the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The...

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

Richard Ross smiles at the audience as he performs with a band at the Levee

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Richard Ross stands and smiles out at the audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as he performs with an...

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

Richard Ross smiles at the audience as he performs with a band at the Levee

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Richard Ross, jazz singer, smiles at the audience as he stands behind a microphone at the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street...

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

Singing is also required sometimes

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Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Unidentified jazz singer performs in the tent

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An unidentified African American male jazz singer holds the microphone to his mouth with his right hand inside a festival tent with open sides. The...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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Member of

  • (-) Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (22)

Types

  • photographs (22)

Genres

  • Color photographs (21)
  • Group portraits (19)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Black & white photographs (1)
  • Gelatin silver prints (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (22)
  • Jazz musicians (21)
  • African American jazz musicians (20)
  • Jazz musicians, White (14)
  • Men, White (14)
  • African American women (12)
  • Fiddlers (12)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Trumpet players (9)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (8)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (22)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (16)
  • Kessler, Stan (8)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (8)
  • McBeth, Ida (7)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (6)
  • Saunders, Eddie (5)
  • Holloway, Larry (Double bassist) (4)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (3)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (2)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (2)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (2)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (1)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (1)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (1)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Johnson, Sam, Jr. (1)
  • Jones, Etta (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Person, Houston (1)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)

Events

  • "Duke Ellington Tribute: Jammin' at the Gem" concert series (2010 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Tony Williams Jazz Fest (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-09-15 (10)
  • 1991 (8)
  • 2000 (8)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 2001-04-10 (1)
  • 2001-08-31 (1)
  • 2010-05-02 (1)

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