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Ben Kynard performs at Mutual Musicians Foundation

Image

Ben Kynard's face with his eyes closed, cheeks bulged out, as he blows into a saxophone mouthpiece at Mutual Musicians Foundation.

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

Elder Statesmen of KC Jazz at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Image

Elder Statesmen of KC Jazz including Oliver Todd sitting at the piano on the far left of the photograph, then Ben Kynard blowing into a saxophone...

Date Published
October-24-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Group photo of the Art Smith Kansas City Jazz Band

Image

Reprint of a newspaper or magazine group photo of the Art Smith Kansas City Jazz Band (L to R): Ben Kynard, Charles "Crook" Goodwin, Art Smith, "Sarge...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann 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 and others on stage during a IAJRC concert

Image

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 posing for a group photo at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Image

Group photo with: (L-R) Ben Kynard, unidentified woman, All Bartee, Ronnie McFadden, Betty Crow, Jay McShann in a white ball cap, Lonnie McFadden...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Johnny Crawford sings as the band accompanies him

Image

Rusty Tucker, drummer; Ben Kynard, saxophone; Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing a Danelectro double guitar; and possibly Pearl Thuston, piano, smile...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Lucky Wesley and Ben Kynard visit the Blue Room

Image

Lucky Wesley, Ben Kynard, and an unidentified African American man sit in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of...

Date Published
March-01-2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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

Oliver Todd, Ben Kynard, Carl Fusaro, Henry Hoard, Marcellus Lee and Elmer Price perform at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Oliver Todd seated at and playing a white baby grand piano with his right side toward the photographer is looking intently at the wind players...

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American men
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (5)
  • Jay McShann Collection (3)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (10)

Genres

  • Group portraits (9)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (6)
  • 1971-1980 (1)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • African American jazz musicians (8)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • Baseball caps (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) African American men (10)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)

Subjects, People

  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (2)
  • Lee, Marcellus (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (2)
  • Taylor, Myra (2)
  • Todd, Oliver, 1916-2001 (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Wesley, Lucky (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Crow, Betty (1)
  • Dye, Coots, 1912-1998 (1)
  • Farney, Mary Ellen (1)
  • Fusaro, Carlo (1)
  • Goodwin, Charles (Vocalist) (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Knowles, Wes (1)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (1)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (1)
  • Meyers, Richard (Guitarist) (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Smith, Art (Arthur T.), 1918-2011 (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Washington, Booker T., 1909-1992 (1)
  • (-) Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (10)

Events

  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1985-08-16 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1999-10-24 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2000-01-13 (1)
  • 2000-01-22 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)
  • 2000-11-07 (1)
  • 2010-03-01 (1)

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