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Group playing at 18th and Vine

Image

Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a...

Date Published
September-16-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Johnny Crawford sings as the band accompanies him

Image

Rusty Tucker, drummer; Ben Kynard, saxophone; Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing a Danelectro double guitar; and possibly Pearl Thuston, piano, smile...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Myra Taylor, Ben Kynard and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Myra Taylor wearing a fur lined cap and eyeglasses hanging from a necklace around her neck smiles with her hand around the shoulder of a seated Lionel...

Date Published
January-13-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Jazz singers
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (2)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (3)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)
  • Group portraits (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • African American men (3)
  • African American women (3)
  • Jazz musicians (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (3)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)

Subjects, People

  • Taylor, Myra (2)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • (-) Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (3)

Date Published

  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 2000-01-13 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)

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