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Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A...

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band playing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams birthday party

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on one side of the stage with his back to the camera while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band warms up

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In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

Date Published
February-19-2001
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams entertains patrons

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind the stage, stands and plays his fiddle as he performs for patrons at round tables with white tablecloths. There...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his table in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at something on the table he is sitting at in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students

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African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams listen to an unidentified white female...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students

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African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with an unidentified white...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs for students

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African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with another, white female...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with the band behind him and audience in front of him

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In a photograph from the side of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits with the audience at an event

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the farthest left side of the photograph. A pink and blue rabbit head wearing a bow tie is a picture...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks as he performs for students

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African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak into a microphone as an...

Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks as he performs with a string band

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African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone

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African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female...

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

From the side of the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward and enthusiastic audience

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In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward...

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

Gerald Dunn, Tyrone Clark, and Chris Clarke play inside a performance tent

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Lisa Henry, jazz singer, is mostly out of the left side of the photograph clapping her hands to the music of Gerald Dunn playing the tenor saxophone...

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

Jay McShann at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano playing for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles 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
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  • Jazz musicians
  • Music audiences

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (18)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Color photographs (18)
  • Group portraits (18)
  • Black & white photographs (1)
  • Gelatin silver prints (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (19)
  • African American jazz musicians (18)
  • Fiddlers (14)
  • Men, White (13)
  • Double bassists (11)
  • Jazz musicians, White (10)
  • Music fans (8)
  • Guitarists (7)
  • African American high school students (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (5)
  • Keyboard players (4)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Birthdays (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • (-) Jazz musicians (19)
  • (-) Music audiences (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Detroit (Mich.) (2)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (16)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (1)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (1)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (1)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (1)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (1)
  • Kessler, Stan (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Pearson, Al (1)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (1)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Wilder, Joe (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (9)
  • 2000 (9)
  • 2001-02-19 (3)
  • 2001-04-13 (2)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2001-09-15 (1)
  • 2003-02-11 (1)
  • 2004-06-26 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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