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Ahmad Alaadeen and Jay McShann at the Spirit Fest

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white fedora, and Jay McShann smile at the photographer during the Spirit Festival at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City...

Date Published
July-05-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Jay McShann smile for the photographer

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white fedora, and Jay McShann sit in a room with wood paneled walls and smile at the photographer the day of the Spirit...

Date Published
July-05-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Jay McShann smile for the photographer

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white fedora, and Jay McShann sit in a room with wood paneled walls and grin at the photographer the day of the Spirit...

Date Published
July-05-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen holds his saxophones together while backstage with Jay and Marianne McShann

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Backstage during the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival in Davenport, Iowa, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white flat cap, holds a soprano saxophone and a...

Date Published
July-03-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Diana Krall at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Diana Krall, wearing sunglasses, behind a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-16-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Dick Wright announcing the Deans of Swing during the Cool Cats Jazz Festival

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Dick Wright introducing Alaadeen and the Deans of Swing: Everette Freeman (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a white ball cap, and an...

Date Published
September-06-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Eddie Tigner at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Eddie Tigner, wearing a Route 66 ball cap, looks seriously out over a microphone while he plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

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

Emcee announces the Deans of Swing during the Cool Cats Jazz Festival

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Bill McFarlin, wearing a red ball cap, introducing Alaadeen and the Deans of Swing: Everette Freeman (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a...

Date Published
September-06-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Henry Butler at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, wearing sunglasses, sits and plays a grand piano during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The stage lights are above his head...

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

Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Henry Townsend at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Townsend, face just visible above a piano, wears a ball cap and sings intensely into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival...

Date Published
July-23-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano playing for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann Quartet at the Sunset Zoo

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The Jay McShann Quartet: McShann (piano), Terry Hughes (drums), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a white ball cap, and Nobel "Duke" Samuels (bass)...

Date Published
September-05-1994
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Jay McShann, Gerald Spaits, Will Matthews, and Ahmad Alaadeen perform at the Spirit Fest

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Jay McShann (piano), Gerald Spaits (bass), Will Matthews (guitar), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a white fedora, performing during the...

Date Published
July-05-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Joe Cartwright, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Gerald Spaits perform

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Joe Cartwright (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a ball cap that says "International Jazz Festival," and Gerald Spaits (bass, mostly...

Date Published
September-28-2003
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Lawrence Wright receives the lifetime achievement award at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Lawrence Wright stands behind a keyboard, looking straight at the photographer, and lays his left hand over his heart as he holds a plaque high with...

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

Pinetop Perkins at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Pinetop Perkins, from the left, sits on stage at a grand piano, wearing a bowler hat while he performs at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The...

Date Published
July-19-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Pinetop Perkins at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest smiles at the photographer

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Pinetop Perkins, wearing a bowler hat, smiles at the photographer as he sits at a piano during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-19-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Music festivals
  • Pianists

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (10)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (9)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (12)
  • Gelatin silver prints (12)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Snapshots (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 2001-2010 (8)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • African American jazz musicians (13)
  • Blues festivals (10)
  • Saxophonists (10)
  • African American men (8)
  • Jazz festivals (8)
  • Blues musicians (5)
  • Double bassists (5)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) Music festivals (19)
  • (-) Pianists (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (9)
  • McShann, Jay (8)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (2)
  • Freeman, Everett, Jr. (2)
  • McShann, Marianne (2)
  • Perkins, Pinetop (2)
  • Perryman, Tim (2)
  • Spaits, Gerald (2)
  • Cartwright, Joe (Pianist) (1)
  • Hughes, Terry (Drummer) (1)
  • Krall, Diana (1)
  • Matthews, William (Guitarist) (1)
  • McFarlin, Bill (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Samuels, Nobel (1)
  • Tigner, Eddie, 1926- (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wright, Dick, 1931-1999 (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)

Events

  • Spirit Festival (2003 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (3)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (3)
  • Cool Cats Jazz Festival (1993 : Manhattan, Kans.) (2)
  • "Books, Ballads and Bebop!" (2003 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Cool Cats Jazz Festival (1994 : Manhattan, Kans.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (1)
  • Mississippi Valley Blues Festival (1993 : Davenport, Ia.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2003-07-05 (4)
  • 1993-09-06 (2)
  • 1998-07-19 (2)
  • 1993-07-03 (1)
  • 1994-09-05 (1)
  • 1998-07-18 (1)
  • 1999-07-16 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2000-07-23 (1)
  • 2001-07-21 (1)
  • 2003-09-28 (1)
  • 2004-06-26 (1)
  • 2006-06-25 (1)

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