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A.J. Croce

Image

Blues pianist A.J. Croce, in a close-up photograph from his right side, he looks down to his right as he wears sunglasses. Printed in the margin below...

Date Published
1993
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bruce Katz

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Blues musician Bruce Katz turns his head toward his right shoulder and winces as he plays an upright piano. An organ is behind him and to his left...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bruce Katz and Carey Bell at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

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Bruce Katz plays a grand piano with his head drawn back while Carey Bell blows into an amplified harmonica that he clutches in his hands at the 4th...

Date Published
October-13-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Diane Schuur - Bobby Watson, Jr. - Monty Alexander - Dr. John

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Diane Schuur, jazz singer and pianist, Bobby Watson, Jr., jazz saxophonist, Dr. John, jazz and blues singer, and Monty Alexander, jazz pianist, in...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Dr. John at the Kansas City Spirit Fest

Image

Dr. John, one of the national acts to perform at the Kansas City Spirit Festival, wearing a fedora, sits at a piano fitted with a microphone and looks...

Date Published
September-06-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Eddie Tigner at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

Image

Eddie Tigner looks out over the piano where he's seated at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.

Date Published
October-17-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Eddie Tigner at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

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

Gene Taylor at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

Image

Gene Taylor, one of the national acts to perform at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, wearing a baseball cap, leans forward over the piano that he...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Henry Gray at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

Image

Henry Clay, wearing a bowler hat, plays a piano with a microphone attached above the keys at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue...

Date Published
October-19-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Henry Townsend at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

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 and Duke Robillard on stage

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Jay McShann wearing a ball cap and singing and playing and electronic piano on an outdoor stage with guitarist Duke Robillard at the 2004 Western...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and Evie Quarles at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Fest

Image

Jay McShann, wearing a baseball cap, smiles to his left as Evie Quarles leans towards his left shoulder during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues...

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

Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, and unidentified bassist performing outdoors

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Jay McShann singing and playing an electronic piano on an outdoor stage with guitarist Duke Robillard, and unidentified white male bassist at the 2004...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, and unidentified bassist performing outdoors

Image

Jay McShann, guitarist Duke Robillard, and unidentified white male bassist performing outdoors at the 2004 Western Maryland Blues Festival; McShann is...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Johnnie Johnson at Roadhouse Ruby's South

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Johnnie Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at Roadhouse Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, wearing an Irish cap and a piano lapel pin, looks...

Date Published
February-11-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Kelley Hunt and Johnnie Johnson at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS

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Kelley Hunt and Johnnie Johnson were a national act that performed at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS. Kelley Hunt sings into a microphone as she stands...

Date Published
December-30-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Image

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, blues singer and pianist, grins at the camera as he plays a three octave keyboard he holds in one hand and plays with the...

Date Published
2002
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Kenny Neal

Image

Kenny Neal, a blues musician who sings, and plays piano, harmonica, and guitar, sits and embraces an electric guitar that is standing up right in his...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Kenny Neal

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Kenny Neal, a blues musician who sings, and plays piano, harmonica, and guitar, sits with an lap steel guitar lying across his lap. Printed in the...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

King Alex Littlejohn & Band

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King Alex Littlejohn smiles proudly wearing a pinstripe, double-breasted suit next to three unidentified band members. One member wears a large cross...

Date Published
January-17-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

L'il Georgie

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L'il Georgie, blues pianist for the band "The Shuffling Hungarians", looks up to his right over his sunglasses to give a slight smile to the camera...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lawrence Wright at Blayney's

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Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, smiles from behind a microphone at Blayney's.

Date Published
January-27-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lawrence Wright at the Grand Emporium

Image

Lawrence Wright of the band The Outlets, smiles down at the photographer while wearing a suit with a musical staff tie, at the Grand Emporium during...

Date Published
May-13-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles 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

Leon Russell

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Leon Russell, blues pianist and singer, looks off to the right wearing sunglasses in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the right margin,...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (31)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (18)
  • Jay McShann Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (52)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (48)
  • Gelatin silver prints (48)
  • Portrait photographs (37)
  • Publicity photographs (17)
  • Group portraits (13)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Slides (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (27)
  • 2001-2010 (24)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (38)
  • Men, White (20)
  • Singers (16)
  • Guitarists (13)
  • Women, White (8)
  • Harmonica players (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Blues festivals (5)
  • Electronic piano (5)
  • Jazz festivals (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Music festivals (5)
  • Piano (5)
  • Organists (4)
  • Buildings (3)
  • Guitar (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Blues (Music) (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Jamaicans (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • (-) Blues musicians (52)
  • (-) Pianists (52)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (16)
  • Salina (Kan.) (8)
  • 18th and Vine District (4)
  • Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Lawrence (Kan.) (1)
  • Olathe (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Perkins, Pinetop (5)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Robillard, Duke (4)
  • Searcy, Roy (4)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (4)
  • Gordon, Rosco (3)
  • Ball, Marcia (2)
  • Charles, Ray, 1930-2004 (2)
  • Dr. John, 1941-2019 (2)
  • Johnson, Johnnie, 1924-2005 (2)
  • Katz, Bruce (Musician) (2)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (2)
  • Lee, Lovie, 1924- (2)
  • Neal, Kenny (2)
  • Peterson, Lucky (2)
  • Quarles, Evie (2)
  • Russell, Leon (2)
  • Tigner, Eddie, 1926- (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Alexander, Monty (1)
  • Bell, Carey, 1936-2007 (1)
  • Croce, A. J. (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Gray, Henry, 1925- (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hunt, Kelley (1)
  • James, Doug, 1953- (1)
  • Kelly, Karl, 1947-2012 (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Ladd Leonard (1)
  • Little Anthony (1)
  • Littlefield, Little Willie (1)
  • Margolin, Robert (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Rae, Marcy (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Rossi, George (Pianist) (1)
  • Schuur, Diane (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Taylor, Gene, 1952- (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Wayne, Kenny (1)
  • Woods, Mitch (1)

Events

  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (4th : 2001 : Salina, Kan.) (4)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (3)
  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (3)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (2)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (5th : 2002 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (6th : 2003 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Fest (1991 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)
  • Spirit Festival (1998 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (6)
  • 2000 (5)
  • 2001-10-13 (4)
  • 2004 (4)
  • 2000-01-22 (3)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 2004-03 (3)
  • 1993 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 1998-07-19 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 2002-01-11 (2)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 1998-07-18 (1)
  • 1998-09-06 (1)
  • 1999-02-11 (1)
  • 1999-04-08 (1)
  • 1999-05-13 (1)
  • 1999-05-21 (1)
  • 1999-05-28 (1)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 2000-07-23 (1)
  • 2001-01-27 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2001-07-21 (1)
  • 2002-10-19 (1)
  • 2002-12-14 (1)
  • 2002-12-15 (1)
  • 2003-10-17 (1)
  • 2003-12-30 (1)
  • 2004-01-17 (1)
  • 2004-06-26 (1)

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