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Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

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

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

Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

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The white male keyboardist laughs as he looks down at the keyboard he is seated behind. The white male double bass player next to him smiles and...

Date Published
February-11-2003
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

Bernie Worrell

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Bernie Worrell, funk keyboardist and composer, grins with his hands forming possibly the heavy metal rock music gesture on each side of his face of...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bernie Worrell

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Bernie Worrell, funk keyboardist and composer, grins with his hands forming possibly the heavy metal rock music gesture on each side of his face of...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Blue City Band performing

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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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams is presented with a birthday cake

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, speaks to someone across the stage that is out of the photograph as an unidentified white...

Date Published
February-11-2003
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 playing with a garage band

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The photographer's finger is partially over the lens as the camera caught a photo of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with Russ Long at the Old Northeast Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting...

Date Published
October-16-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone from the stage

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and speaks into a microphone as he holds his fiddle with both hands and hangs his bow from his left hand. An...

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

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

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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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in Kim Park's garage

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A photograph of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the left, a cooler sits next to an amplifier and Russ Long seated and...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dennis Binder at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Dennis Binder, wearing a fedora, looks to his right, as he sits on stage and plays a keyboard on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

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

Don Miller, Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, Mike Warren, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen

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Engineer Don Miller, and musicians Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, Mike Warren, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, stand as a group and...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Don Miller, Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, Mike Warren, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen

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Engineer Don Miller, and musicians Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, making bunny ears over Mike Warren's head, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Finger Roll

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Jazz duo Finger Roll (Thomas Dawson Jr., and Dennis Nelson) stand together as Dennis Nelson holds an acoustic guitar. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

Henry Townsend at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Henry Townsend, wearing a bowler hat, suit and striped shoes, sits and looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...

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

Jeff Lucas at Roadhouse Ruby's South

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Jeff Lucas, wearing a flat cap backwards, looks down at a keyboard he is playing at Roadhouse Ruby's South.

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

Joe Cartwright leans over the keyboard as he performs with a band at the Levee

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Joe Cartwright, keyboard player, leans over the keys and looks to his right as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City...

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

Joe Wilder plays his flugelhorn with the band

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Joe Wilder looks down at the bell of a flugelhorn as he stands of stage playing with the band. A unidentified African American saxophone player...

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

Killer Bees

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Reggae vocalist Michael E. Johnson (left) looks back over his right shoulder to look at the camera as he wears a ball cap backwards on his head. His...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Latimore

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Blues keyboardist and singer Latimore sits with his elbows on a counter with this hands lying one on top of the other under his chin as he looks...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Levee Town and Simplexity sit outside on the steps

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Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside...

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

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Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (16)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (7)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (5)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (5)

Types

  • photographs (33)

Genres

  • Color photographs (23)
  • Group portraits (22)
  • Black & white photographs (10)
  • Gelatin silver prints (10)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Publicity photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (8)
  • 2001-2010 (8)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (22)
  • Jazz musicians (22)
  • Men, White (17)
  • Double bassists (14)
  • Fiddlers (13)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (12)
  • Jazz musicians, White (12)
  • Saxophonists (11)
  • Blues musicians (8)
  • Trumpet players (7)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Percussionists (5)
  • Pianists (5)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (4)
  • Birthdays (4)
  • Music audiences (4)
  • Music fans (4)
  • Singers (4)
  • Blues festivals (3)
  • Music festivals (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Bass guitarists (2)
  • Funk musicians (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • Birthday cakes (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • (-) African American men (33)
  • (-) Keyboard players (33)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Overland Park (Kan.) (5)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)
  • Olathe (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (13)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (5)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (5)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (5)
  • Warren, Michael (Drummer) (5)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (4)
  • Wilder, Joe (4)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (2)
  • Kessler, Stan (2)
  • Miller, Don (Sound engineer) (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (2)
  • Stewart, Ray (Percussionist) (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Worrell, Bernie (2)
  • Binder, Dennis, 1920- (1)
  • Blackman, Wes (1)
  • Blaze (1)
  • Breihan, Jeff (1)
  • Carroll, Karen (1)
  • Cartwright, Joe (Pianist) (1)
  • Dawson, Thomas (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Doder, Keith (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Gilmore, Mark (1)
  • Go-Go Ray (1)
  • Hoffman, Stanton (1)
  • Holloway, Larry (Double bassist) (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Johnson, Michael E. (1)
  • Jones, Jeff (Keytarist) (1)
  • Knox, Marquise (1)
  • Latimore (1)
  • Leslie, Tyson (1)
  • Lucas, Jeff (1)
  • Lusk, Professor Eddie, 1948-1992 (1)
  • Nelson, Dennis (Guitarist) (1)
  • Robinson, George (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Tims, David (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Wilkerson, Dave (1)

Events

  • "New Africa Suite" (2004 : Overland Park, Kan.) (5)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (8)
  • 2000 (7)
  • 2003-02-11 (6)
  • 2004 (5)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1999-10-16 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 1999-02-11 (1)
  • 1999-11-18 (1)
  • 2001-07-22 (1)

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