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All play except Marcus Belgrave

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, turns his head and smiles at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as Claude plays his fiddle in the center of the stage. Claude's head...

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

Big Bill Bissonnette sits in the green room

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Big Bill Bissonnette smiles at the camera as he sits beside an unidentified colleague in the green room. Both wear vests. The man on the right wears a...

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

Big Bill Bissonnette takes the solo

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Big Bill Bissonnette closes his eyes as he takes the trombone solo on stage on the farthest right of the photograph as the other band members check...

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

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 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 performing with the Statesmen of Jazz

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left...

Date Published
October-12-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing with the Statesmen of Jazz

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left...

Date Published
October-12-1999
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 takes a moment to smile at the camera

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind a seated audience member, stands sideways to the stage to smile at the camera; his fiddle tucked under his...

Date Published
1991
1995
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

Host speaks into a microphone at the Statesmen of Jazz concert in Boca Raton, Florida

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A host wearing a captain's hat, smiles and speaks into a microphone that he holds in his right hand as he stands in the center of the stage for the...

Date Published
May-16-2000
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

Sound check

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A man wearing a sweater and ball cap, has his back to the camera as he stands on the auditorium floor in front of the stage possibly setting up a...

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

Statesmen of Jazz gather around the host of the concert in Boca Raton, Florida

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The Statesmen of Jazz stand and sit together around the host at the Pine Crest School Performing Arts Center, 2700 St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton...

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

Statesmen of Jazz listen to someone speak from the stage

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The Statesmen of Jazz are on stage at the Pine Crest School Performing Arts Center, 2700 St. Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing &...

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

Statesmen of Jazz pause to listen to the guitarist take the solo

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The other players in an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz pause to listen to the guitarist, Bill Wurtzel, take the solo. Jane Jarvis, is seated at...

Date Published
October-12-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Statesmen of Jazz perform in Boca Raton, Florida

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The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida, on May 16, 2000. On the left side of the photograph, Eddie Higgins sits at the baby...

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

Statesmen of Jazz perform in Boca Raton, Florida

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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
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  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (20)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Color photographs (20)
  • Group portraits (20)
  • Snapshots (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (20)
  • African American men (20)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • Jazz musicians, White (20)
  • Men, White (18)
  • Saxophonists (15)
  • Double bassists (13)
  • Trumpet players (12)
  • Pianists (9)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Auditoriums (6)
  • Guitarists (6)
  • Concerts (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Schools (2)
  • (-) Fiddlers (20)
  • (-) Trombonists (20)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Boca Raton (Fla.) (6)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (20)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (8)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (7)
  • May, Earl, 1927-2008 (7)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (7)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (6)
  • Masso, George (6)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (6)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (5)
  • Dodgion, Jerry (5)
  • Higgins, Eddie, 1932-2009 (5)
  • Colombo, Lou (3)
  • Harris, Isaac Jerome (3)
  • Jarvis, Jane (3)
  • Locke, Eddie (3)
  • Powell, Benny (3)
  • Wilder, Joe (3)
  • Wurtzel, BIll (3)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)

Date Published

  • 2000-05-16 (6)
  • 2001-04-10 (6)
  • 1999-10-12 (3)
  • 2001-04-08 (2)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2001-04-12 (1)

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