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Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A...

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Don Miller relax during a recording session

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, and engineer, Don Miller, sit among the recording equipment during a recording session for "New Africa Suite" at...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Will Matthews talk during a performance in Skopje

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) talks to Will Matthews (guitar) on stage at the Hard Rock Club in Skopje, Macedonia. Tyrone Clark's bass, mostly obscured...

Date Published
July-13-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen at Banquets Beyond the Bay with fans

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Ahmad Alaadeen (second from left), wearing a kufi hat, with four unidentified people (one white man, two African American women, one white woman)...

Date Published
February-08-1997
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen discusses recording with Misha Tsiganov and Craig Rivers

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Misha Tsiganov and Craig Rivers listen to Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap and talking, during a recording session for Hedman's band Tropique,...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen greets fans at Banquets Beyond the Bay

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Ahmad Alaadeen (second from left), wearing a kufi hat, shaking hands with an unidentified white man as two unidentified women (one white, one African...

Date Published
February-08-1997
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen receives a welcome to the mosque

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Ahmad Alaadeen (right) shaking hands with an unidentified white man while an unidentified white boy stands in front of them. All smile at the...

Date Published
July-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen recording in Kansas City, MO

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap under a headset and holding a tenor saxophone, and Matt Kane (drums, in isolation room) look out in front of...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen shakes hands with a fan in Skopje

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A photograph from behind Ahmad Alaadeen (right) and an unidentified white man shaking hands in the Grand Hotel Skopje in Skopje, North Macedonia...

Date Published
July-13-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen shaking hands

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Norman Hedman and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, shaking hands as Misha Tsiganov looks on during a recording session for Hedman's band Tropique,...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen teaching students at Flint Hills Music

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, working with two unidentified white male music students while an unidentified white man looks on at the Flint...

Date Published
February-2004
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Terry Hughes, and Gerald Spaits performing

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Terry Hughes (drums), Gerald Spaits (bass), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) performing during a concert in Palm Beach, Florida; Jay McShann may be...

Date Published
April-28-1997
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Will Matthews and Tyrone Clark get a microphone adjustment in Skopje

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An unidentified white male soundman adjusts the microphone for Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) as Ahmad closes his eyes an blows into a soprano saxophone...

Date Published
July-13-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Will Matthews, Jim Ellickson-Brown, and Tyrone Clark enjoy a meal in Thessaloniki

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(Clockwise from bottom right) Tyrone Clark, Ahmad Alaadeen, Will Matthews, and Jim Ellickson-Brown (American Center Director/U.S. Consul in Greece)...

Date Published
July-12-1993
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Band Tropique getting ready to record

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a kufi cap, walks in front of Norman Hedman as Misha Tsiganov (left) and Craig Rivers look on during a recording session for...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra

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Four men from the City Light Orchestra sit outside on a patio and smile as Ahmad Alaadeen looks at a soprano saxophone. All are wearing suits. From...

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

David Daahoud Williams, Sonny Kenner, State Representative Cooper, Ahmad Alaadeen, Adolph Roulette, and Mayor Berkley

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David Daahoud Williams (mostly out of frame), Sonny Kenner (eyes closed), State Representative Bonnie Sue Cooper (looking over her left shoulder)...

Date Published
1989
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, 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

DownBeat Magazine shoot at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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A bass player stands in the corner of the Mutual Musicians Foundation wearing a straw hat and looking down at the bass. Luqman Hamza sits at the piano...

Date Published
June-09-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long during a panel discussion

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Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long stand behind a table and look at the photographer during a panel discussion...

Date Published
May-12-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long during a panel discussion

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Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long stand behind a table and look at the photographer during a panel discussion...

Date Published
May-12-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen performing

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Jay McShann and Ahmad Alaadeen performing while being filmed by a white male cameraman; other people can be seen behind them; at the Lincoln Building...

Date Published
August-21-1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with Ahmad Alaadeen and Gerald Spaits

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Jay McShann playing piano with Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) and Gerald Spaits (bass) seen behind him at a concert in Palm Beach, Florida.

Date Published
April-28-1997
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann talking with Ray De Marchi with Ahmad Alaadeen and Todd Wilkerson standing behind them

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Jay McShann talking to drummer Ray De Marchi, both seated near a microphone and a xylophone; Ahmad Alaadeen and Todd Wilkerson are standing behind...

Date Published
August-21-1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

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Member of

  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (23)
  • Jay McShann Collection (11)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (1)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (38)

Genres

  • Group portraits (38)
  • Color photographs (33)
  • Snapshots (27)
  • Black & white photographs (5)
  • Gelatin silver prints (5)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (28)
  • 2001-2010 (5)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (38)
  • Jazz musicians (38)
  • African American jazz musicians (37)
  • Saxophonists (35)
  • Jazz musicians, White (17)
  • Pianists (16)
  • Double bassists (13)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (11)
  • Saxophone (9)
  • Piano (8)
  • Double bass (7)
  • Guitarists (7)
  • Drum set (6)
  • Music fans (6)
  • Musical instruments (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Percussionists (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Flute players (3)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (3)
  • Diplomats (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Limousines (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Palms (2)
  • Plants, Potted (2)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Cashiers (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Diplomatic and consular service, American (1)
  • Draperies (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Furniture (1)
  • Humanities--Awards (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Mosques (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Music stores (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Muslims (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Representative government and representation--U.S. states (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound engineers (1)
  • Television camera operators (1)
  • Television cameras (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Women politicians (1)
  • (-) Men, White (38)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Skopje (North Macedonia) (6)
  • 18th and Vine District (4)
  • New York (N.Y.) (4)
  • Overland Park (Kan.) (3)
  • Palm Beach (Fla.) (2)
  • Sikeston (Mo.) (2)
  • Emporia (Kan.) (1)
  • Thessalonikē (Greece) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (10)
  • Spaits, Gerald (9)
  • Hughes, Terry (Drummer) (8)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (5)
  • Matthews, William (Guitarist) (4)
  • Tsiganov, Misha (4)
  • Hamza, Luqman (3)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (3)
  • Miller, Don (Sound engineer) (3)
  • Rivers, Craig (3)
  • Alexios, Tom (2)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (2)
  • Hedman, Norman (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (2)
  • Stewart, Ray (Percussionist) (2)
  • Warren, Michael (Drummer) (2)
  • Allyson, Karrin (1)
  • Barker, LaVerne (1)
  • Basse, David (1)
  • Berkley, Richard L., 1931- (1)
  • Cooper, Bonnie Sue (1)
  • De Marchi, Ray (1)
  • Ellickson-Brown, James (1)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (1)
  • Kane, Matt (Drummer) (1)
  • Kessler, Stan (1)
  • McBeth, Ida (1)
  • Roulette, Adolph (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Whitmer, Tim (1)
  • Wilkerson, Todd (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Williams, David Daahoud, 1935-1988 (1)
  • (-) Alaadeen, Ahmad (38)

Events

  • "Taken By Surprise" (2000 : New York, N.Y.) (4)
  • "New Africa Suite" (2004 : Overland Park, Kan.) (3)
  • Banquets Beyond the Bay (Sikeston, Mo.) (2)
  • Tradin' 4s Series: On the Cusp (1999 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • "Time Through The Ages" (1997 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Tradin' 4s Series: Celebration of Alaadeen's 2000 Governor's Humanities Award (2000 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1997-04-28 (9)
  • 1993-07-13 (5)
  • 2000 (4)
  • 2004 (3)
  • 1996-08-21 (2)
  • 1997-02-08 (2)
  • 1999-05-12 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1993-07 (1)
  • 1993-07-12 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 2000-06-09 (1)
  • 2000-11-07 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2001-09-15 (1)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2004-02 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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