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Jay McShann and others on stage during a IAJRC concert

Image

Jay McShann playing piano on stage during an IAJRC conference concert in Kansas City; (Jay McShann, piano; Claude Williams, violin; Ben Kynard...

Date Published
August-16-1985
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann performing on stage with Claude Williams and Eddie Davis

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Jay McShann (piano), Claude Williams (violin), and Eddie Davis (saxophone) performing together on stage at an unidentified outdoor event; large trees...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Gerald Spaits, and others performing on an outdoor stage

Image

Jay McShann performing on stage with Gerald Spait, bass, and other musicians at an unidentified outdoor concert; banners for Miller Genuine Draft are...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jeannie Cheatham with Eddie Vinson and Papa John Creach

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Jeannie Cheatham standing with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Papa John Creach outside an unidentified building; both men are wearing sunglasses and...

Date Published
1987
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Joe Venuti

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Low angle photograph of Joe Venuti playing violin into a microphone on stage. Venuti is looking down with a surprised expression and is wearing a...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Joe Venuti and his orchestra

Image

Publicity photo of Joe Venuti looking forward and smiling while holding a violin in front with both hands. Venuti is wearing a black suit jacket and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Joe Venuti grinning for the camera

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Possibly Joe Venuti standing and grinning at the photographer with a group of unidentified people sitting behind him. Possibly Billy Butterfield...

Date Published
September-1975
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Joe Venuti sits at a table with a friend

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Joe Venuti, left, sitting at a table with an unidentified white male friend.

Date Published
September-1975
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Lawrence McLean with the Police of Independence Band

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Lawrence McLean posing for a photo with three other members of the Police of Independence Band. They are playing violin, saxophones, and drums. They...

Date Published
1923
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Lawrence McLean with the Police of Independence Band

Image

Lawrence McLean playing on the street with three other members of the Police of Independence Band. They are playing saxophone, violin, and drums. Two...

Date Published
1923
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Lawrence McLean with the Police of Independence Band

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Lawrence McLean playing on the street with three other members of the Police of Independence Band. They are playing saxophone, violin, and drums. Two...

Date Published
1923
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Leo Reisman

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Headshot of Leo Reisman looking to the side and smiling. Reisman is wearing a three-piece suit and patterned tie.

Date Published
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Leon Jordan with several people in a restaurant

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Leon Jordan sitting with several unidentified people in a restaurant, possibly in Italy. A violinist is playing in the back of the restaurant. Jordan...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with several people in a restaurant

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Leon Jordan sitting with several unidentified people in a restaurant, possibly in Italy. A violinist is playing in the back of the restaurant and...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Lionel Young

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Lionel Young, blues violinist, looks at the camera with a small smile as he wears a fedora hat and a bolo tie. He holds the neck of a violin on his...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lionel Young

Image

Lionel Young, blues violinist, looks at the violin he is playing as he wears a fedora hat and a bolo tie. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

Little girls playing violin

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Two little girls playing violin in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada.

Date Published
1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Matty Malneck and his orchestra

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Publicity photo of Matty Malneck holding a violin and leaning on one elbow while looking forward and smiling. Malneck is wearing a black tuxedo and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Michael Ward

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Michael Ward, jazz violinist, sits in a chair and leans forward as he holds a bow and a blue violin by the neck so that it hangs toward the ground...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mildred Bailey and Joe Venuti

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Mildred Bailey and Joe Venuti seated at a dining table with water glasses and an ashtray.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Neville Marriner

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Publicity photo of Neville Marriner standing and leaning against a wall with arms folded while looking forward. Marriner is wearing a white tuxedo and...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Neville Marriner

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Publicity photo of Neville Marriner sitting to the side and turning to look forward. Marriner is wearing a striped shirt and touching his fingers...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Neville Marriner conducting

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Neville Marriner conducting on stage with an audience in the background. Marriner is extending both arms out, holding a conducting baton in his right...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (36)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (19)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (12)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (8)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)
  • Allan Bell Collection (5)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (5)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Mclean Family Collection (4)
  • Betty Crow Collection (3)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (3)
  • Paul Creston Collection (3)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (3)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (2)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (1)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (1)
  • Postcard - Ben-Ton Orchestra (1)

Types

  • photographs (111)
  • Graphics (1)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (83)
  • Gelatin silver prints (79)
  • Portrait photographs (73)
  • Group portraits (53)
  • Snapshots (41)
  • Publicity photographs (38)
  • Color photographs (32)
  • Silver printing-out paper prints (3)
  • Caricatures (2)
  • Postcards (2)
  • Clippings (1)
  • Drawings (1)
  • Illustrations (1)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (32)
  • 1941-1950 (21)
  • 2001-2010 (13)
  • 1971-1980 (11)
  • 1921-1930 (9)
  • 1951-1960 (8)
  • 1931-1940 (7)
  • 1961-1970 (5)
  • 1981-1990 (5)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (59)
  • African American jazz musicians (37)
  • Fiddlers (29)
  • African American men (25)
  • Saxophonists (25)
  • Men, White (15)
  • Violin (14)
  • Conductors (Music) (13)
  • Musicians (13)
  • Guitarists (11)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Jazz musicians, White (10)
  • Blues musicians (9)
  • Double bassists (8)
  • Pianists (8)
  • Harmonica players (7)
  • Musical instruments (7)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • African American musicians (5)
  • Blues festivals (5)
  • Jazz festivals (5)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Microphone (5)
  • Music festivals (5)
  • Piano (5)
  • String ensembles (4)
  • African American guitarists (3)
  • African American women (3)
  • Banjoists (3)
  • Composers (3)
  • Cruise ships (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (3)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Cellists (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Flute players (2)
  • Radio talk show hosts (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Women musicians (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American Muslims (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Black Muslims (1)
  • Cello (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • City council members (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Independent bookstores (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Name tags (1)
  • Native American women (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Punk rock musicians (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound studios (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Violists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) Violinists (118)

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.) (20)
  • 18th and Vine District (5)
  • Independence (Mo.) (3)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (3)
  • Italy (2)
  • Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho (1)
  • Hartford (Conn.) (1)
  • Salina (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (27)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (11)
  • Venuti, Joe (7)
  • Cugat, Xavier, 1900-1990 (6)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (5)
  • Creach, Papa John (5)
  • Lombardo, Guy, 1902-1977 (5)
  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (5)
  • Young, Lionel (5)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (4)
  • Gregg, Joseph Boon, 1913-1995 (4)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (3)
  • Dexter, Dave (3)
  • Garber, Jan (3)
  • Marriner, Neville (3)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (2)
  • Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005 (2)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (2)
  • Glenn, Lilliebelle (2)
  • Grappelli, Stéphane (2)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (2)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Meroff, Benny, 1901-1973 (2)
  • Smith, Stuff (2)
  • Vinson, Eddie (2)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (2)
  • Bailey, Mildred (1)
  • Benson, George, 1943- (1)
  • Bergner, Carl, 1930-2000 (1)
  • Brooks, Alvin L., 1932- (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Butterfield, Billy, 1917-1988 (1)
  • Carter, Benny (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Dennis, Debbie (1)
  • Dittemore, Helen (1)
  • Ellis, Betse (1)
  • Falah, Tayammum (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Gawron, Nate (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Kessel, Barney (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Leary, Washboard Chaz (1)
  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (1)
  • Lert, Richard, 1885-1980 (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • Malneck, Matty (1)
  • McPherson, Charles (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Oskar, Lee (1)
  • Otis, Hal (1)
  • Perlman, Itzhak, 1945- (1)
  • Rabinof, Benno (1)
  • Reisman, Leo, 1897-1961 (1)
  • Rubinoff, Dave, 1897-1986 (1)
  • Savitt, Jan (1)
  • Shelton, Ike (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Taylor, Will, 1968- (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Wade, Phil (1)
  • Ward, Michael (Violinist) (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)
  • Woode, Jimmy (1)
  • Young, Victor, 1900-1956 (1)

Events

  • "Cultural Exchanges: Jazz and Missouri Fiddling" (2001) (5)
  • 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)
  • Blues Masters at the Crossroads (4th : 2001 : Salina, Kan.) (1)
  • Central Avenue Jazz Festival (1)
  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (20)
  • 1941 (17)
  • 1971 (11)
  • 1975 (8)
  • 1991 (8)
  • 1935 (6)
  • 1965 (6)
  • 1921 (5)
  • 1930 (5)
  • 1940 (5)
  • 2000 (5)
  • 2001-08-11 (5)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1961 (4)
  • 1923 (3)
  • 1951 (3)
  • 1955 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1992-10 (3)
  • 1997-05-11 (3)
  • 1999 (3)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 2001-02-19 (3)
  • 1952 (2)
  • 1975-09 (2)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1999-07-18 (2)
  • 2000-01-22 (2)
  • 2000-02-21 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 1929 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1934 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1959-09 (1)
  • 1967-10-31 (1)
  • 1968-09 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1978 (1)
  • 1985-08-16 (1)
  • 1987 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 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)
  • 2001-10-12 (1)
  • 2003-10-25 (1)

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