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Clark Terry, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Buddy Tate, and others perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Clark Terry, flugelhorn, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, Buddy Tate, saxophone, and others including a drummer and a trombone player, perform at...

Date Published
1971
1980
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 closes his eyes as he plays next to a smiling drummer

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he stands on the left side of the photograph and draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle. An...

Date Published
1991
2000
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 entertains patrons

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind the stage, stands and plays his fiddle as he performs for patrons at round tables with white tablecloths. There...

Date Published
1991
2000
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 performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. He is playing a fiddle near a microphone on...

Date Published
September-1992
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs on stage with fiddler Jonathan Blake and others

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An unidentified white male pianist, farthest left in the photograph, sits diagonally on the piano bench, turns his body toward the keys, and closes...

Date Published
1996
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 at the Merging Generations Concert

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle center stage as he performs as part of a quartet of unidentified African American male jazz musicians...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with Luqman Hamza and Rusty Tucker

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On the left side of the photograph at an unidentified venue, possibly the Mutual Musicians Foundation, Musicians Local 627, in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1961
1970
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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams takes the solo as the rest of the Statemen of Jazz listen

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The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida on May 16, 2000. The date, "5 16 '00"," is imprinted on the lower right-hand of the...

Date Published
May-16-2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude Williams at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Claude Williams playing fiddle for an event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Williams is wearing a brown leather jacket...

Date Published
October-1992
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Claude Williams with unidentified musicians at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Claude Williams with unidentified musicians at an event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Williams is wearing a brown...

Date Published
October-1992
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Claude Williams with unidentified musicians at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Claude Williams with unidentified musicians at an event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Williams is wearing a brown...

Date Published
October-1992
Member of
Betty Crow 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

Jay McShann and others on stage during a IAJRC concert

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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

Jazz musicians at the City Light Jazz Club

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Jazz musicians performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Richard Ross playing drums while looking down...

Date Published
October-1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin standing near the drums, James...

Date Published
September-1992
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Jazz musicians performing at a social event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: an unidentified man...

Date Published
February-1994
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Johnny Crawford sings as the band accompanies him

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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

Julie Turner and Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Julie Turner and Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Turner is singing into a...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Shahid (Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tayammum Falah, and Fiddler Williams)

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The original members of The Shahid, a Nation of Islam music group first formed in the 1960s (Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tayammum Falah, and Claude...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

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  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (17)
  • Betty Crow Collection (8)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (27)

Genres

  • Group portraits (26)
  • Color photographs (24)
  • Snapshots (14)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (8)
  • 1971-1980 (1)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (27)
  • Jazz musicians (26)
  • Fiddlers (25)
  • African American men (18)
  • Double bassists (16)
  • Jazz musicians, White (15)
  • Men, White (13)
  • Saxophonists (13)
  • Trumpet players (8)
  • Guitarists (7)
  • Pianists (7)
  • Trombonists (7)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (5)
  • Auditoriums (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Schools (3)
  • Concerts (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American Muslims (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Black Muslims (1)
  • Bow ties (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Masters of ceremonies (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) Drummers (Musicians) (27)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)
  • 18th and Vine District (4)
  • Boca Raton (Fla.) (3)
  • St. Louis (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Barefield, A. Spencer (4)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (4)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (3)
  • Dodgion, Jerry (3)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (3)
  • Harris, Isaac Jerome (3)
  • Higgins, Eddie, 1932-2009 (3)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (3)
  • Locke, Eddie (3)
  • Masso, George (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (3)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (3)
  • Bartee, Al (2)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (2)
  • Colombo, Lou (2)
  • Kessler, Stan (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • May, Earl, 1927-2008 (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Albright, James (Double bassist) (1)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (1)
  • Blake, John, 1947-2014 (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Falah, Tayammum (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Long, Russ (1)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Turner, Julie (Singer) (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, David, 1946- (1)
  • (-) Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (27)

Events

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

Date Published

  • 1981 (3)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1992-10 (3)
  • 2000-05-16 (3)
  • 2001-04-08 (3)
  • 1961 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1971 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1992-09 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1985-08-16 (1)
  • 1991-10 (1)
  • 1994-02 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1999-06-16 (1)
  • 2001-04-10 (1)

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