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Audience watches a formal event

Image

In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, unidentified African American men and one unidentified African American...

Date Published
September-01-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Audience watches a formal event

Image

In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, four unidentified African American men and one unidentified African...

Date Published
September-01-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador...

Date Published
July-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Cotton Candy, wearing a dramatic hat and looking directly at the photographer, sings into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-18-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Houston Person and Etta Jones perform at the Tony Williams Jazz Fest

Image

Houston Person stands on a stage in a room with a pink-draped ceiling while he plays his tenor saxophone and looks out over the audience at the Tony...

Date Published
August-31-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

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Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.

Date Published
June-19-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Irma Thomas at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Irma Thomas, wearing a sundress, smiles up and to her left as she holds a microphone in her right hand and lifts her left elbow even with her shoulder...

Date Published
July-22-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Koko Taylor at Rhythm & Ribs

Image

Koko Taylor, from her right side, scrunches her face as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at...

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Koko Taylor at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Koko Taylor, neck and chest wet with perspiration, closes her eyes and lifts her head to her right, as she smiles and sings into a microphone she is...

Date Published
July-21-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Myra Taylor sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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

Peggy Scott Adams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Peggy Scott Adams, wearing an Asian inspired blouse, stands facing the photographer, mouth wide open, with the microphone held low by her right side...

Date Published
July-18-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sista Monica at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Sista Monica's lips are puckered as she points to herself with her left hand and holds a microphone in her right hand during the Kansas City Blues and...

Date Published
July-18-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • African American women
  • Jazz festivals

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (9)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (9)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Group portraits (4)
  • Color photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (5)
  • 2001-2010 (4)

Subjects

  • Blues festivals (9)
  • Music festivals (9)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Blues musicians (6)
  • Jazz musicians (6)
  • Singers (6)
  • African American men (4)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) African American women (12)
  • (-) Jazz festivals (12)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)
  • 18th and Vine District (2)
  • Pennsylvania (2)

Subjects, People

  • Taylor, Koko (2)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Jones, Etta (1)
  • McBeth, Ida (1)
  • Person, Houston (1)
  • Scott-Adams, Peggy, 1948- (1)
  • Sista Monica (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Thomas, Irma (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (3)
  • Tony Williams Jazz Fest (3)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (2)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1998-07-18 (3)
  • 2001-09-01 (2)
  • 1999-07-18 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2001-07-21 (1)
  • 2001-07-22 (1)
  • 2001-08-31 (1)
  • 2005-06-18 (1)
  • 2005-06-19 (1)

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