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Alvin Brooks helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 92nd birthday

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Alvin Brooks, eyes closed, speaks into a microphone as he stands with his arm around the shoulder of Claude "Fiddler" Williams at Fiddler's 92nd...

Date Published
February-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson and Claude "Fiddler Williams at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson, with pony tail and holding an alto saxophone, smiles to his left at Claude" Fiddler" Williams who is playing the fiddle with his eyes...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson holds an alto saxophone and smiles to his left at Claude "Fiddler" Williams closing his eyes and playing the fiddle at the Blue Room...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Clarence Gatemouth Brown at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown, wearing a cowboy hat and embroidered shirt, smiles to his left as he draws a bow across the strings of a violin during the...

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

Clarence Gatemouth Brown at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown, wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, from his left side, smiles as he bows a violin during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the photographer as he plays a fiddle into a microphone from 710 Talk Radio at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine. A...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Gem Theater

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands, smiles, and pulls the bow across the strings of his fiddle during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a checked suit, looks down as he plays a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays a fiddle

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the strings as he pulls a bow across an amplified fiddle at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. He is wearing a...

Date Published
October-25-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns 92

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays the fiddle at Club Mardi Gras for his 92nd Birthday. He's wearing a striped suit and looks down at the bow crossing...

Date Published
February-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns 93

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams is smiling as he speaks into a microphone while standing in front of a drawing of himself playing the fiddle that. The...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador...

Date Published
July-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Little Hatch, Millage Gilbert, and Debbie Dennis at the Gem Theater

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles while looking down as he stands to the right of a seated Little Hatch wearing a printed tuxedo, bowtie, and a fedora...

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

Claude Williams playing violin

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Claude Williams playing violin; poster of a 19th century man in a hat behind him; unknown location.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

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

Jay McShann and others on stage during a IAJRC concert

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Jay McShann playing piano on stage during an IAJRC conference concert in Kansas City; (Jay McShann, piano; Claude Williams, violin; Ben Kynard...

Date Published
August-16-1985
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann performing on stage with Claude Williams and Eddie Davis

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Jay McShann (piano), Claude Williams (violin), and Eddie Davis (saxophone) performing together on stage at an unidentified outdoor event; large trees...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Gerald Spaits, and others performing on an outdoor stage

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Jay McShann performing on stage with Gerald Spait, bass, and other musicians at an unidentified outdoor concert; banners for Miller Genuine Draft are...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jeannie Cheatham with Eddie Vinson and Papa John Creach

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Jeannie Cheatham standing with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Papa John Creach outside an unidentified building; both men are wearing sunglasses and...

Date Published
1987
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Lionel Young

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Lionel Young, blues violinist, looks at the camera with a small smile as he wears a fedora hat and a bolo tie. He holds the neck of a violin on his...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lionel Young

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Lionel Young, blues violinist, looks at the violin he is playing as he wears a fedora hat and a bolo tie. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lionel Young at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Lionel Young, one of the national acts to perform at the KC Blues & Jazz Festival After Fest Jam, wears a straw hat as he looks to the right and plays...

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

Lionel Young at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Lionel Young, wearing a straw cowboy hat, sunglasses, and beads in his hair, sings into a microphone and plucks a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues...

Date Published
July-17-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Michael Ward

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Michael Ward, jazz violinist, sits in a chair and leans forward as he holds a bow and a blue violin by the neck so that it hangs toward the ground...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Washboard Chaz Leary, Lionel Young, and Lee Oskar at the Grand Emporium

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Washboard Chaz Leary, Lionel Young, and Lee Oskar, are one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium After Festival Jam. Washboard Chaz is...

Date Published
July-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American men
  • Violinists

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (17)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (25)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (20)
  • Gelatin silver prints (19)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Snapshots (4)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (12)
  • 2001-2010 (8)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (18)
  • African American jazz musicians (17)
  • Fiddlers (17)
  • Blues musicians (8)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Blues festivals (5)
  • Jazz festivals (5)
  • Music festivals (5)
  • Pianists (5)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Piano (3)
  • Violin (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • City council members (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Name tags (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • (-) African American men (25)
  • (-) Violinists (25)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (16)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)
  • Salina (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (15)
  • Young, Lionel (5)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005 (2)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (2)
  • Brooks, Alvin L., 1932- (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Creach, Papa John (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Dennis, Debbie (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Leary, Washboard Chaz (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Oskar, Lee (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Vinson, Eddie (1)
  • Ward, Michael (Violinist) (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (3)
  • K.C. Blues & Jazz After Fest Jam (1999) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (2)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (2)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (4th : 2001 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Central Avenue Jazz Festival (1)
  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001 (3)
  • 2001-02-19 (3)
  • 1999-07-18 (2)
  • 2000-01-22 (2)
  • 2000-02-21 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1985-08-16 (1)
  • 1987 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1998-08-05 (1)
  • 1999-07-16 (1)
  • 1999-07-17 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2000-07-22 (1)
  • 2001-10-12 (1)
  • 2003-10-25 (1)

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