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Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on one side of the stage with his back to the camera, playing his fiddle, while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

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The white male keyboardist laughs as he looks down at the keyboard he is seated behind. The white male double bass player next to him smiles and...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band playing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams birthday party

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on one side of the stage with his back to the camera while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blue City Band performing

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Four members of the five member Blue City Band, a blues band comprised of three white men and two African American men, perform in a tent. Farthest to...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams is presented with a birthday cake

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, speaks to someone across the stage that is out of the photograph as an unidentified white...

Date Published
February-11-2003
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 with Russ Long at the Old Northeast Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone from the stage

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and speaks into a microphone as he holds his fiddle with both hands and hangs his bow from his left hand. An...

Date Published
February-11-2003
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

Danny Federici

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Jazz-rock keyboardist Danny Federici curls the fingers of his right hand around his chin. Printed on the bottom left hand corner of the photograph,...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Don Miller, Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, Mike Warren, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen

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Engineer Don Miller, and musicians Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, Mike Warren, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, stand as a group and...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Don Miller, Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, Mike Warren, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen

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Engineer Don Miller, and musicians Chris Clarke, Tyrone Clark, making bunny ears over Mike Warren's head, Ray Stewart, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Hank Walther at the Grand Emporium

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Hank Walther, of the band Roomful of Blues, one to the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora, leans over a keyboard he is...

Date Published
January-15-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jazz musicians at the Blue Note Café

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Jazz musicians performing at an event at the Blue Note Café in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Richard Van Sant playing piano, Bill...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Joe Cartwright leans over the keyboard as he performs with a band at the Levee

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Joe Cartwright, keyboard player, leans over the keys and looks to his right as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Joe Wilder plays his flugelhorn with the band

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Joe Wilder looks down at the bell of a flugelhorn as he stands of stage playing with the band. A unidentified African American saxophone player...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Killer Bees

Image

Reggae vocalist Michael E. Johnson (left) looks back over his right shoulder to look at the camera as he wears a ball cap backwards on his head. His...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mike Finnigan at the Beaumont Club

Image

Mike Finnigan, one of the national acts to perform at the Beaumont Club, from his left side, sings into a microphone and plays a keyboard. Other...

Date Published
June-10-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mike Roark at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Mike Roark of the band, Rain Dogs, wearing sunglasses, looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mike Roark playing piano

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Mike Roark of the blues band, Rain Dogs, looks intensely at the photographer over his left shoulder as he sits and plays a piano.

Date Published
July-29-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor, Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore sing

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Myra Taylor seated and Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore standing beside Myra all singing into two microphones at the Myra...

Date Published
June-29-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Quartet of two fiddles, a slide guitar, and a keyboard

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Two fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated keyboard player and possibly a slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap (all white men). The backs...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Quartet of two fiddles, a slide guitar, and a keyboard

Image

Two white male fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated white male keyboard player and possibly a white male slide guitarist with the slide guitar on...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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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Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (15)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (9)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (6)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (2)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (33)

Genres

  • Group portraits (25)
  • Color photographs (22)
  • Black & white photographs (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (11)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Negatives (2)
  • Publicity photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (10)
  • 1991-2000 (8)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (19)
  • African American jazz musicians (17)
  • African American men (17)
  • Jazz musicians, White (16)
  • Fiddlers (13)
  • Double bassists (12)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (11)
  • Saxophonists (9)
  • Blues musicians (7)
  • Singers (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Birthdays (4)
  • Bass guitarists (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Percussionists (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Ukulele (3)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Bottleneck (Guitar playing) (2)
  • Music audiences (2)
  • Music fans (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Birthday cakes (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Jazz-rock (Music) (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • (-) Keyboard players (33)
  • (-) Men, White (33)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (11)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)
  • Overland Park (Kan.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (11)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (4)
  • Wilder, Joe (4)
  • Edwards, Millie (3)
  • Hicks, Bryan (3)
  • Hill, Rich (Keyboard player) (3)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (3)
  • Price, Geneva (3)
  • Roark, Mike (3)
  • Taylor, Myra (3)
  • Tiny Tim, 1932-1996 (3)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (2)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (2)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (2)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (2)
  • Kessler, Stan (2)
  • Miller, Don (Sound engineer) (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Stewart, Ray (Percussionist) (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Tucker, Lori (2)
  • Warren, Michael (Drummer) (2)
  • Young, Arnie (Drummer) (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Breihan, Jeff (1)
  • Caldwell, Bill (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Caplan, Marc (1)
  • Cartwright, Joe (Pianist) (1)
  • DeMasters, Tom (1)
  • Doder, Keith (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Federici, Danny (1)
  • Finnigan, Mike (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hoffman, Stanton (1)
  • Holloway, Larry (Double bassist) (1)
  • Johnson, Michael E. (1)
  • Moore, Mary (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Piazza, Honey, 1951- (1)
  • Piazza, Rod (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Ray, Diane (1)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Tims, David (1)
  • Van Sant, Richard (1)
  • Walther, Hank (1)

Events

  • "New Africa Suite" (2004 : Overland Park, Kan.) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (1)

Date Published

  • 2003-02-11 (6)
  • 1991 (5)
  • 2000 (4)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1994-04-12 (3)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 1999-10-16 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000-01-15 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2001-06-29 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2001-07-29 (1)
  • 2001-12-26 (1)
  • 2004-06-10 (1)
  • 2005-06-25 (1)
  • 2006-06-25 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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