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Anthony Gomes and Biscuit Miller at a Weston Festival

Image

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

AZ One

Image

Reggae musician AZ One smiles at the photographer as he holds an electric bass guitar and sits behind a microphone.

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

BB Dickerson at the Grand Emporium

Image

B.B. Dickerson, of the Same Ole Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks up as he plays an electric bass.

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

Biscuit Miller at the Grand Emporium

Image

Biscuit Miller, of the Lonnie Brooks Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grins directly at the photographer as he plays...

Date Published
February-12-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Blue City Band performing

Image

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

Bob Stroger at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

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Bob Stroger, wearing a cowboy hat, leans to his left as he plays an electric bass at 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios...

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

Bob Stroger at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

Image

Bob Stroger, wearing a top hat, and a guitar lapel pin, looks down at the neck of electric bass he is playing during the 4th Annual Blues Masters at...

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

Buckwheat Zydeco

Image

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

Image

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

Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch at the Grand Emporium

Image

Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage in a triangle facing each other...

Date Published
June-30-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant with three other band members on the stage performing

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant stage area with his fiddle tucked under his left arm and smiles at the camera. Three other...

Date Published
1981
1985
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Coko Henderson at Roadhouse Ruby's South

Image

Coko Henderson, wearing a cowboy hat and a bedazzled shoulder strap, grimaces and looks down towards his left shoulder as he plays a bass at Roadhouse...

Date Published
February-11-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy and So Many Men

Image

Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Eric Bib and Dave Bronze at the Grand Emporium

Image

Eric Bibb stands as he sings into a microphone and plays an acoustic guitar next to Dave Bronze, who is seated and looking down while he plays an...

Date Published
February-25-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Four Fried Chickens & a Coke at the Grand Emporium

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Four Fried Chickens and a Coke pose for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Back row: Holding a bass is Landon Murray. Wearing a fedora and a tie is Bill...

Date Published
November-14-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Frank Smith, Jerry Leonard, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform at JJ's Restaurant

Image

In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith...

Date Published
August-01-1981
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Fuzz Jones at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

Image

Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, wearing a ball cap, stands and sings into a microphone while playing an electric bass at the Annual Blues Masters at the...

Date Published
October-19-2007
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Glen Therman at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Image

Glen Therman, wearing a perspiration soaked shirt and a flat cap, looks intensely to his left as he plays a bass during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Guitarist and bassist performing in Chicago

Image

An unidentified African American man holding a tenor guitar while wearing mix-matched clothing and a derby hat stands to the right and gives a...

Date Published
1958
1959
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

James Gilbert at the Gem Theater

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James Gilbert, in an open-collared shirt, rolls his lips and looks down to his left at the neck of the bass as he plucks the string with his right...

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

James Whitney at Mill Creek Brewery

Image

James Whitney looks to his right at the photographer with a gleam in his eyes as he sings into the microphone and plays a bass at Mill Creek Brewery...

Date Published
March-01-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jason D. Williams

Image

Rock pianist and vocalist Jason D. Williams stands on stage behind a microphone with his eyes closed and his mouth wide open. He wears a beige sweater...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jay McShann at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Image

Jay McShann in a ball cap seated at a piano and talking to someone out of the picture; an unidentified African American male bass guitarist is...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jean Knight at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

Image

Jean Knight grins at the photographer as she holds a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS. An...

Date Published
October-20-2007
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

King Alex

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Kansas City blues guitarist King Alex smiles at the camera as he plays an electric bass guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "King Alex...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (22)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (22)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (48)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (39)
  • Gelatin silver prints (39)
  • Portrait photographs (25)
  • Group portraits (23)
  • Publicity photographs (19)
  • Color photographs (9)
  • Photocopies (2)
  • Snapshots (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (27)
  • 2001-2010 (15)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (37)
  • Guitarists (27)
  • Singers (20)
  • Men, White (13)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (12)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • Harmonica players (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Bass guitar (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Keyboardists (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Rock musicians (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Blues-rock music (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Ocean liner passengers (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Taxicabs (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • Zydeco musicians (1)
  • (-) African American men (48)
  • (-) Bass guitarists (48)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (14)
  • Salina (Kan.) (5)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Olathe (Kan.) (1)
  • Weston (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Shannon, Mem (6)
  • Holmes, Sherman (3)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (3)
  • Stroger, Bob (3)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (2)
  • Miller, Biscuit (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • AZ One (1)
  • Bibb, Eric (1)
  • Bishop, Elvin (1)
  • Blazek, Allan (1)
  • Breihan, Jeff (1)
  • Bronze, Dave (1)
  • Champlin, Bill (1)
  • Cox, Steve (Singer) (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Dickerson, B. B. (1)
  • Doder, Keith (1)
  • Duarte, Chris (1)
  • Dural, Buckwheat, 1947-2016 (1)
  • Finnigan, Mike (1)
  • Fran, Carol, 1933- (1)
  • Fulcher, Larry (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Gilbert, James (Bassist) (1)
  • Gilmore, Johnny (1)
  • Gomes, Anthony (1)
  • Henderson, Coko (1)
  • Hudson, Garth (1)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Jackson, Russell (Musician) (1)
  • Jones, Calvin (Bassist) (1)
  • Jones, Rich (Sound engineer) (1)
  • Jordan, John (1)
  • Kinsey, Donald, 1953- (1)
  • Kinsey, Kenneth (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Kinsey, Ralph (Drummer) (1)
  • Knight, Jean (1)
  • Lawrence, Trevor (Trevor Anthony) (1)
  • Leonard, Jerry (Electric bass player) (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • McWilliams, Herschel (1)
  • Miller, Marcus, 1959- (1)
  • Murphy, Matt (Guitarist) (1)
  • Murray, Landon (1)
  • Oswald, Doug (1)
  • Oswald, Sherry (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Reilly, Mike, 1958- (1)
  • Reynolds, Tim, 1957- (1)
  • Richardson, Kenny (1)
  • Ross, Houston (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Scofield, Paul (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Snow, Jon (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Taj Mahal (Musician) (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Therman, Glen (1)
  • Thompson, Ron (Guitarist) (1)
  • Tims, David (1)
  • Tisdale, Wayman, 1964-2009 (1)
  • Turner, Nate, 1937- (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • West, Brian (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Whitehead, Bill (Guitarist) (1)
  • Whitney, James (1)
  • Williams, Jason D. (1)
  • Woodford, David (Saxophonist) (1)

Events

  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (5th : 2002 : Salina, Kan.) (2)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (10th : 2007 : Salina, Kan.) (2)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (4th : 2001 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (1)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (1)
  • Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise II (1)

Date Published

  • 2000 (6)
  • 1998 (4)
  • 2004 (4)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1995 (3)
  • 1996 (3)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 2002-10-18 (2)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1981-08-01 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1985-08 (1)
  • 1987-03 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1994-01-07 (1)
  • 1998-03-01 (1)
  • 1998-06-30 (1)
  • 1998-07-11 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 1999-02-11 (1)
  • 1999-06-08 (1)
  • 1999-09-05 (1)
  • 2000-01-22 (1)
  • 2000-02-12 (1)
  • 2000-02-25 (1)
  • 2000-06-24 (1)
  • 2000-07-07 (1)
  • 2001-02-18 (1)
  • 2001-07-22 (1)
  • 2001-10-12 (1)
  • 2002-09-05 (1)
  • 2002-11-14 (1)
  • 2004-03-10 (1)
  • 2004-06-05 (1)
  • 2007-10-19 (1)
  • 2007-10-20 (1)

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