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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

Gathering of musicians outside Mutual Musicians Foundation building

Image

(Top row) Luqman Hamza, unidentified, Orestie "Rusty" Tucker, unidentified, unidentified, (second row from top) unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Everette...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Group playing at 18th and Vine

Image

Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a...

Date Published
September-16-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann with Myra Taylor

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Jay McShann leaning in and sharing a laugh with Myra Taylor during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival Media Day; both seated with people seen...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Myra Taylor and Bobby Watson at the Grand Emporium

Image

Myra Taylor sits in a wheelchair to the right of Bobby Watson. She holds her purse. Bobby has his left arm around her shoulders, is wearing a straw...

Date Published
May-23-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor and Buck O'Neil at the Blue Room

Image

Myra Taylor is seated and laughing with her eyes closed while holding a microphone with her right hand and holding her left hand around the shoulder...

Date Published
June-21-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor and Harry Hypolite at the Blue Room

Image

Harry Hypolite leans forward grinning over a seated Myra Taylor at the Blue Room in front of the bar, 18th & Vine.

Date Published
February-28-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band

Image

Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band at an unidentified venue in Kansas City. Farthest to the left Bunnie "Bumps" Love smiles to her right...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Myra Taylor, Ben Kynard and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Image

Myra Taylor wearing a fur lined cap and eyeglasses hanging from a necklace around her neck smiles with her hand around the shoulder of a seated Lionel...

Date Published
January-13-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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

Image

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

Phillip Walker and Myra Taylor at Knuckleheads Saloon

Image

Phillip Walker, one of the national acts to perform at Knuckleheads Saloon, wearing a flat cap, hugs his electric guitar on his lap and leans toward...

Date Published
July-17-2007
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ray Charles and Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Music Hall

Image

Ray Charles, an overcoat draped over his shoulders, looks at the floor to his right as he shakes the hand of a seated Myra Taylor who is wearing a...

Date Published
January-11-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • African American men
  • Taylor, Myra

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (8)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Group portraits (12)
  • Black & white photographs (10)
  • Gelatin silver prints (10)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Snapshots (2)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (6)
  • 1991-2000 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American women (12)
  • Jazz singers (9)
  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Blues musicians (4)
  • Guitarists (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Singers (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Baseball players--United States (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • (-) African American men (12)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)
  • 18th and Vine District (2)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Salina (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (2)
  • Hamza, Luqman (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Charles, Ray, 1930-2004 (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Fran, Carol, 1933- (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Hypolite, Harry (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Johnson, Sam, Jr. (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • O'Neil, Buck, 1911-2006 (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Stroger, Bob (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Walker, Phillip, 1937-2010 (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)
  • (-) Taylor, Myra (12)

Events

  • "Duke Ellington Tribute: Jammin' at the Gem" concert series (2010 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (5th : 2002 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 2000-01-13 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)
  • 2002-01-11 (1)
  • 2002-02-28 (1)
  • 2002-06-21 (1)
  • 2002-10-18 (1)
  • 2003-05-23 (1)
  • 2007-07-17 (1)
  • 2010-05-02 (1)

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