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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

Barbara and Spencer Barefield

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Barbara and Spencer Barefield stand arm-in-arm with their heads together to smile at the camera as they stand in a yard in front of a wooden fence...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Barbara, Spencer IV, and A. Spencer Barefield

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The Barefield family: Barbara, A. Spencer IV, and A. Spencer, stand together in a yard in front of a wooden fence and smile at the camera. The parents...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Barefield family pet a Saint Bernard

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Barbara and A. Spencer Barefield bend over to pet each end of a Saint Bernard as their son, 14-year-old A. Spencer Barefield IV, stands between them...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams smile off to the left

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Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams stand together smiling off to the left side of the photograph in an auditorium in a school. Bill's...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Charlie Gabriel smile for the camera

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In a blurred photograph, Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams lean towards each other and smile as they stand together in an auditorium of a...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and others performing

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams is playing his fiddle on the farthest right-hand side of the photograph. Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, Marcus Belgrave...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams entertains along with others

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Left to right: Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, from his right side; Jerome "Scrooge" Harris, drums, looking down and wearing a hat; Charlie Gabriel...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams gets the microphone next

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays along side Spencer Barefield

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, playing the fiddle, sits by Spencer Barefield, playing jazz guitar, as they sit behind two tables with beverages sitting on...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a band on a stage in a school auditorium

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A drum set on the left side of the photograph is too dark to see the drummer; likely Jerome Harris. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, looks left toward...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams' trio entertains at a café

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a...

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

Collaboration

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, on the right side of the photograph stands sideways to the audience to look back at Dan Pliskow, double bassist, and the...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dan Pliskow and Spencer Barefield perform in a barista bar

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Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista...

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

Dan Pliskow speaks with Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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The double bass player, Dan Pliskow's, back is to the camera as he speaks with Spencer Barefield, the jazz guitarist. Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave uses the microphone as most of the band plays

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, points at the audience that is not in the photograph and speaks or sings into a microphone he holds with his other hand...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus, Claude, and Bill stand together for a photograph as others look on

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A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Singing is also required sometimes

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Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams prepare to perform

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Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, looks seriously at a piece of music from his music stand that he holds in his hands, as he sits in a barista bar...

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

Spencer Barefield indicates where he will perform next

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Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, smiles as he stands outside the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), in the evening. He...

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

Spencer Barefield smiles at a Saint Bernard

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Spencer Barefield turns in the dining chair he is sitting in to smile at a Saint Bernard that is sitting behind him. The dog faces the camera and has...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Spencer Barefield straddles a Saint Bernard

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Spencer Barefield stands over and straddles a Saint Bernard facing the dog's tail and lifts his head to look at the camera. The dog turns his head...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Spencer Barefield, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey

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Spencer Barefield, holding a red jazz guitar, crouches down beside the seated double bass player, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey, a jazz pianist. A...

Date Published
April-12-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Spencer Barefield, Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, Charlie Gabriel, and Big Bill Bissonnette

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Spencer Barefield stands holding his red jazz guitar and looking over to the seated Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, and Charlie Gabriel on one side of...

Date Published
April-12-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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  • Barefield, A. Spencer

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  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (24)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Color photographs (24)
  • Group portraits (18)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • Jazz musicians (24)
  • Guitarists (23)
  • Fiddlers (15)
  • Double bassists (14)
  • Jazz musicians, White (13)
  • Men, White (13)
  • Auditoriums (10)
  • Saxophonists (10)
  • Trumpet players (8)
  • Schools (7)
  • Trombonists (6)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Musicians' spouses (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Families (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Racially mixed children (2)
  • Teenage boys (2)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Vests (1)
  • (-) African American men (24)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Detroit (Mich.) (5)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (16)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (12)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (11)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (9)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (4)
  • Harris, Isaac Jerome (4)
  • Barefield, Barbara (3)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer IV (2)
  • Bey, Taslimah (2)
  • Hayden, Marion (2)
  • (-) Barefield, A. Spencer (24)

Date Published

  • 2001-04-08 (7)
  • 2001-04-10 (5)
  • 2001-04-13 (5)
  • 2001-04-14 (5)
  • 2001-04-12 (2)

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