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Ahmad Alaadeen joins the local jazz combo on stage

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An unidentified alto saxophone player, piano player, Ahmad Alaadeen (soprano saxophone), and an unidentified bass player performing onstage during a...

Date Published
2004
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Alaadeen and the Deans of Swing perform indoors

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and the Deans of Swing, likely Everette Freeman (piano), Tyrone Clark (bass), Sonny Kenner (guitar), and likely Don...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing at City Light Restaurant and Bar

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A postcard of The City Light Orchestra performing: Tim Whitmer (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), LaVerne Barker (bass), David Basse (drums). The...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing at City Light Restaurant and Bar

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Carmell Jones (trumpet, LaVerne Barker (bass), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), stand on stage at City Light Restaurant and Bar, Kansas City, MO and...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Four unidentified musicians at the Radisson Hotel

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Four musicians performing at an event at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The man on the left is playing trumpet while facing left. A man...

Date Published
October-1992
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Frank Smith, Jerry Leonard, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform at JJ's Restaurant

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In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith...

Date Published
August-01-1981
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Hamza Luqman and LaVerne Barker rehearse at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Luqman Hamza (piano) and LaVerne Barker (bass), wearing a ball cap, rehearsing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Ahmad Alaadeen...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Hamza Luqman, LaVerne Barker, and Ahmad Alaadeen rehearse at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Luqman Hamza (piano), LaVerne Barker (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and an unidentified drummer rehearsing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Jay McShann at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Jay McShann in a ball cap seated at a piano and talking to someone out of the picture; an unidentified African American male bass guitarist is...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Luqman Hamza, Karrin Allyson, Eddie Saunders, Tommy Ruskin, and Ahmad Alaadeen performing at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Luqman Hamza (piano), Karrin Allyson (vocals), Eddie Saunders (bass), and Tommy Ruskin (drums) all smile at the photographer as Ahmad Alaadeen plays a...

Date Published
June-09-2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Paseo Academy jazz band gets a taste of performing with Ahmad Alaadeen

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Ahmad Alaadeen rehearsing on stage with the Paseo Academy Jazz Ensemble.

Date Published
January-1992
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Raindogs and Saffire the Uppity Blues Women

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Raindogs & Saffire the Uppity Blues Women, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand in a group grinning at the photographer are Jim...

Date Published
July-06-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Bass guitarists
  • Pianists

Member of

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

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Group portraits (11)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Snapshots (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)
  • Photographic postcards (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (7)
  • 1981-1990 (2)
  • 2001-2010 (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (11)
  • Jazz musicians (11)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bass guitar (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) Bass guitarists (12)
  • (-) Pianists (12)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (8)
  • Barker, LaVerne (4)
  • Hamza, Luqman (3)
  • Basse, David (2)
  • Whitmer, Tim (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Allyson, Karrin (1)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Foster, Dwight (1)
  • Freeman, Everett, Jr. (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Jones, Carmell (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Leonard, Jerry (Electric bass player) (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Mumford, Don (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (4)
  • 2000 (3)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1986 (2)
  • 1981-08-01 (1)
  • 1992-01 (1)
  • 1992-10 (1)
  • 2000-06-09 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2004 (1)

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