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Ann Rabson at the W.C. Handy Awards

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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

Blue City Band performing

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Four members of the five member Blue City Band, a blues band comprised of three white men and two African American men, perform in a tent. Farthest to...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Dennis Binder at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Dennis Binder, wearing a fedora, looks to his right, as he sits on stage and plays a keyboard on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza

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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

Hank Walther at the Grand Emporium

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Hank Walther, of the band Roomful of Blues, one to the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora, leans over a keyboard he is...

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

Henry Townsend at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Henry Townsend, wearing a bowler hat, suit and striped shoes, sits and looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Honey Piazza at the Grand Emporium

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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

Jeff Lucas at Roadhouse Ruby's South

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Jeff Lucas, wearing a flat cap backwards, looks down at a keyboard he is playing at Roadhouse Ruby's South.

Date Published
February-11-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Latimore

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Blues keyboardist and singer Latimore sits with his elbows on a counter with this hands lying one on top of the other under his chin as he looks...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Levee Town and Simplexity sit outside on the steps

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Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside...

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

Marcia Ball at the Grand Emporium

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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

Mike Finnigan at the Beaumont Club

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Mike Finnigan, one of the national acts to perform at the Beaumont Club, from his left side, sings into a microphone and plays a keyboard. Other...

Date Published
June-10-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mike Roark at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Mike Roark of the band, Rain Dogs, wearing sunglasses, looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mike Roark playing piano

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Mike Roark of the blues band, Rain Dogs, looks intensely at the photographer over his left shoulder as he sits and plays a piano.

Date Published
July-29-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Professor Eddie Lusk and Karen Carroll

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Chicago blues keyboard player Professor Eddie Lusk props his keyboard on its side on the ground and rests his right hand on it as he leans his left...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Raindogs and Saffire the Uppity Blues Women

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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

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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

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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

Wendell Holmes at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Wendell Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, closes his eyes and grimaces as he sings, mouth wide open, into a microphone, and plays a keyboard...

Date Published
July-22-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Zoe (and the Mofoes)

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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)

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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
  • Blues musicians
  • Keyboard players

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (15)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (6)

Types

  • photographs (21)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (19)
  • Gelatin silver prints (19)
  • Portrait photographs (13)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (10)
  • 2001-2010 (10)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Singers (9)
  • Women, White (9)
  • African American men (8)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Blues festivals (4)
  • Music festivals (4)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Bass guitarists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Blues musicians (21)
  • (-) Keyboard players (21)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (3)
  • Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.) (1)
  • Olathe (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Piazza, Honey, 1951- (3)
  • Roark, Mike (3)
  • McKinley, Zoe Elaine Burns, 1957-2013 (2)
  • Quarles, Evie (2)
  • Rabson, Ann (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Ball, Marcia (1)
  • Binder, Dennis, 1920- (1)
  • Blackman, Wes (1)
  • Blaze (1)
  • Breihan, Jeff (1)
  • Carroll, Karen (1)
  • Doder, Keith (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Finnigan, Mike (1)
  • Gilmore, Mark (1)
  • Go-Go Ray (1)
  • Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Jones, Jeff (Keytarist) (1)
  • Knox, Marquise (1)
  • Latimore (1)
  • Leslie, Tyson (1)
  • Lucas, Jeff (1)
  • Lusk, Professor Eddie, 1948-1992 (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Piazza, Rod (1)
  • Robinson, George (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Tims, David (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Walther, Hank (1)
  • Wilkerson, Dave (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (2)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 2010 (2)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 1998-04-24 (1)
  • 1998-10-24 (1)
  • 1999-02-11 (1)
  • 1999-11-18 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2000-01-15 (1)
  • 2001-05-25 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2001-07-22 (1)
  • 2001-07-29 (1)
  • 2004-06-10 (1)
  • 2005-06-25 (1)

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