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Ann Rabson at the W.C. Handy Awards

Image

Ann Rabson looks out over the keyboard she is playing and sings into a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. A drum set and...

Date Published
May-25-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Anne Shelley speaking

Image

Anne Shelley speaking into a microphone with other women entertainers looking on, including one woman with keyboards; at Phoenix Books' grand opening...

Date Published
March-07-1992
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams is presented with a birthday cake

Image

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

Image

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 stands in Kim Park's garage

Image

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

Entertaining the crowd at Phoenix Books

Image

Three white women in front of microphones, one playing keyboards, at Phoenix Books' grand opening. Jori Costello is in the center.

Date Published
March-07-1992
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza

Image

Miss Honey Piazza puts her left arm around the shoulders of Evie Quarles. They lean in towards each other so their heads touch. Both are seated and...

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Honey Piazza at the Grand Emporium

Image

Honey Piazza, a member of the band, Mighty Flyers, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks up over her right shoulder as she...

Date Published
April-24-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jazz musicians at the Blue Note Café

Image

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

Marcia Ball at the Grand Emporium

Image

Marcia Ball, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, holds a plastic alligator between her hands as she looks down to her right and...

Date Published
October-24-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Raindogs and Saffire the Uppity Blues Women

Image

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

Rod Piazza, Evie Quarles, and Miss Honey Piazza

Image

Rod Piazza, wearing sunglasses, sits to the right of Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza sits to Evie's left. All three are smiling at the camera.

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

Image

Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women, a blues band comprised of one African American woman and two white women, laugh as they hold their instruments; a...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Singing trio at Phoenix Books

Image

An unidentified white woman on keyboards; Jori Costello (center); and another unidentified white woman, singing into microphones at Phoenix Books'...

Date Published
March-07-1992
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Zoe (and the Mofoes)

Image

Zoe, keyboard player and singer of the band, Zoe and the MoFoes, a local Kansas City band, winks her right eye and smiles at the camera in a close-up...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Zoe (and the MoFoes)

Image

Zoe, keyboard player and vocalist for the band, Zoe and the MoFoes, a local Kansas City band, looks back over her left shoulder and smiles at the...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Keyboard players
  • Women, White

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (6)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (3)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Group portraits (11)
  • Black & white photographs (8)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Gelatin silver prints (8)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (6)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (9)
  • 2001-2010 (4)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (9)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Singers (5)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • African American men (3)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Fiddlers (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Independent bookstores (3)
  • Lesbians (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Birthday cakes (1)
  • Birthdays (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Women entertainers (1)
  • Women musicians (1)
  • (-) Keyboard players (16)
  • (-) Women, White (16)

Subjects, Community

  • Gay liberation (3)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (3)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (3)
  • LGBTQ+ events (3)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (3)
  • LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • Women's bookshops (3)
  • White lesbians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Costello, Jori (3)
  • Piazza, Honey, 1951- (3)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (3)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (2)
  • Kessler, Stan (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • McKinley, Zoe Elaine Burns, 1957-2013 (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Quarles, Evie (2)
  • Rabson, Ann (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Ball, Marcia (1)
  • Caldwell, Bill (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Caplan, Marc (1)
  • DeMasters, Tom (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Piazza, Rod (1)
  • Ray, Diane (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Shelley, Anne (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Van Sant, Richard (1)

Date Published

  • 1992-03-07 (3)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 2010 (2)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1998-04-24 (1)
  • 1998-10-24 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2001-05-25 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2003-02-11 (1)

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