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Ahmad Alaadeen, Fiddler Williams, and George Benson visiting Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, George Benson stand in front of a wall of photographs of members and performers at...

Date Published
September-11-1998
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Alvin Brooks helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 92nd birthday

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Alvin Brooks, eyes closed, speaks into a microphone as he stands with his arm around the shoulder of Claude "Fiddler" Williams at Fiddler's 92nd...

Date Published
February-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Andra Faye at the Grand Emporium

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Andra Faye of the Saffire the Uppity Blues Women band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the strings of the...

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

Clarence Gatemouth Brown at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown, wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, from his left side, smiles as he bows a violin during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the photographer as he plays a fiddle into a microphone from 710 Talk Radio at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine. A...

Date Published
August-05-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Gem Theater

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands, smiles, and pulls the bow across the strings of his fiddle during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a checked suit, looks down as he plays a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-16-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns 92

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays the fiddle at Club Mardi Gras for his 92nd Birthday. He's wearing a striped suit and looks down at the bow crossing...

Date Published
February-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador...

Date Published
July-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Little Hatch, Millage Gilbert, and Debbie Dennis at the Gem Theater

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles while looking down as he stands to the right of a seated Little Hatch wearing a printed tuxedo, bowtie, and a fedora...

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Dog Faced Hermans

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Dog Faced Hermans, a Scottish punk band comprised of a white woman playing trumpet and a white man playing the violin on stage among many microphones...

Date Published
1992
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Echoes of Erin with Ahmad Alaadeen at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), wearing a kufi cap, jamming with Echoes of Erin, a group of musicians from Ireland, at Mutual Musicians Foundation in...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Entertaining the crowd at Phoenix Books

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Two unidentified white women providing entertainment at Phoenix Books' grand opening; one woman is playing a guitar and the other a violin.

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

Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lionel Young at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Lionel Young, one of the national acts to perform at the KC Blues & Jazz Festival After Fest Jam, wears a straw hat as he looks to the right and plays...

Date Published
July-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lionel Young at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Lionel Young, wearing a straw cowboy hat, sunglasses, and beads in his hair, sings into a microphone and plucks a fiddle during the Kansas City Blues...

Date Published
July-17-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

photographs of photographers during the 21-sax salute at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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Blanche and Claude "Fiddler" Williams (and others) during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery in Kansas City...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Saxophonists play as a crowd watches at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (with news camera), unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Saxophonists play as a crowd watches at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (in background, mostly obscured), unidentified, unidentified, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white ball cap...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

String ensemble playing during a hospital event

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Four unidentified white teenage girls and one unidentified white teenage boy playing violins as part of a string ensemble during a hospital event...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

String ensemble playing during a hospital event

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Unidentified white teenage girls playing violins as part of a string ensemble during a hospital event honoring Joseph Boon Gregg.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

String ensemble playing during a hospital event

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Three unidentified white girls playing violin and one seated playing cello as part of a string ensemble during a hospital event honoring Joseph Boon...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

String ensemble playing during a hospital event

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Five unidentified white teenage girls and one unidentified white teenage boy standing behind music stands playing violins as part of a string ensemble...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

String quintet from Shawnee Mission West High School

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Strolling Strings string quintet from Shawnee Mission West High School playing during a Mother's Day celebration at Children's Mercy Hospital. Two...

Date Published
May-11-1997
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Strolling Strings members and their pianist

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View of some members of the Strolling Strings quintet from Shawnee Mission West High School including an unidentified white teenaged girl turned to...

Date Published
May-11-1997
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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  • 1991-2000

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (14)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (5)
  • Betty Crow Collection (3)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (32)

Genres

  • Group portraits (19)
  • Black & white photographs (16)
  • Color photographs (16)
  • Gelatin silver prints (16)
  • Portrait photographs (13)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Publicity photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1991-2000 (32)

Subjects

  • Fiddlers (18)
  • Jazz musicians (17)
  • African American jazz musicians (15)
  • African American men (12)
  • Women, White (8)
  • Musicians (7)
  • Blues musicians (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Violin (6)
  • Blues festivals (5)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Jazz festivals (5)
  • Music festivals (5)
  • Musical instruments (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • String ensembles (4)
  • Cruise ships (3)
  • African American guitarists (2)
  • Cellists (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Cello (1)
  • City council members (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Independent bookstores (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Punk rock musicians (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Violists (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women musicians (1)
  • (-) Violinists (32)

Subjects, Community

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

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (15)
  • 18th and Vine District (4)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (12)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (4)
  • Gregg, Joseph Boon, 1913-1995 (4)
  • Young, Lionel (3)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (2)
  • Benson, George, 1943- (1)
  • Brooks, Alvin L., 1932- (1)
  • Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Dennis, Debbie (1)
  • Ellis, Betse (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Gawron, Nate (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Leary, Washboard Chaz (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Oskar, Lee (1)
  • Shelton, Ike (1)
  • Taylor, Will, 1968- (1)
  • Wade, Phil (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)

Events

  • 21-Sax Salute (Kansas City, Mo.) (3)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (3)
  • K.C. Blues & Jazz After Fest Jam (1999) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (2)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (2)
  • 18th & Vine Gala “Ellington at 99: Livin’ on the Vine” (1998 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (8)
  • 2000 (5)
  • 1992-10 (3)
  • 1997-05-11 (3)
  • 1999 (3)
  • 1999-07-18 (2)
  • 2000-01-22 (2)
  • 2000-02-21 (2)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1992-03-07 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 1998-08-05 (1)
  • 1998-09-11 (1)
  • 1999-07-16 (1)
  • 1999-07-17 (1)
  • 1999-11-29 (1)
  • 2000-04-15 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2000-07-22 (1)

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