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Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on one side of the stage with his back to the camera, playing his fiddle, while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

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The white male keyboardist laughs as he looks down at the keyboard he is seated behind. The white male double bass player next to him smiles and...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Band playing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams birthday party

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on one side of the stage with his back to the camera while Joe Wilder stands on the opposite side of the stage...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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

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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 plays with Russ Long at the Old Northeast Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting...

Date Published
October-16-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone from the stage

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and speaks into a microphone as he holds his fiddle with both hands and hangs his bow from his left hand. An...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant with three other band members on the stage performing

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant stage area with his fiddle tucked under his left arm and smiles at the camera. Three other...

Date Published
1981
1985
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in Kim Park's garage

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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

Danny Federici

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Jazz-rock keyboardist Danny Federici curls the fingers of his right hand around his chin. Printed on the bottom left hand corner of the photograph,...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

Joe Cartwright leans over the keyboard as he performs with a band at the Levee

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Joe Cartwright, keyboard player, leans over the keys and looks to his right as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Joe Wilder plays his flugelhorn with the band

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Joe Wilder looks down at the bell of a flugelhorn as he stands of stage playing with the band. A unidentified African American saxophone player...

Date Published
February-11-2003
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

L.C. "Speedy" Huggins, Russ Long, and Julie Turner perform at the City Light Restaurant and Bar

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L.C. "Speedy" Huggins (drums), and unidentified African American male bass player, an unidentified white female sax player, Russ Long (piano), and...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Russ Long and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform at the Old Northeast Festival

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting...

Date Published
October-16-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Wild Women and Bill Maness

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The Wild Women: Myra Taylor, Lori Tucker, and Millie Edwards with Bill Maness; stand around a seated Wild Woman, Geneva Price, as they all smile...

Date Published
December-26-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Wild Women and Bill Maness at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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The Wild Women including Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards, and Myra Taylor, sit on stage in chairs singing into microphones under posters of...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Jazz musicians, White
  • Keyboard players

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (12)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (17)

Genres

  • Color photographs (14)
  • Group portraits (14)
  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (2)
  • 2001-2010 (2)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (16)
  • Men, White (16)
  • African American jazz musicians (15)
  • African American men (12)
  • Fiddlers (11)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Double bassists (7)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Birthdays (4)
  • Jazz singers (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • African American women (2)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Birthday cakes (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Jazz-rock (Music) (1)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • (-) Jazz musicians, White (17)
  • (-) Keyboard players (17)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (4)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (11)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (5)
  • Wilder, Joe (4)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (2)
  • Edwards, Millie (2)
  • Kessler, Stan (2)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Price, Geneva (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Taylor, Myra (2)
  • Tucker, Lori (2)
  • Caldwell, Bill (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Caplan, Marc (1)
  • Cartwright, Joe (Pianist) (1)
  • DeMasters, Tom (1)
  • Federici, Danny (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Holloway, Larry (Double bassist) (1)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Ray, Diane (1)
  • Turner, Julie (Singer) (1)
  • Van Sant, Richard (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (1)

Date Published

  • 2003-02-11 (6)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1999-10-16 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 2001-12-26 (1)
  • 2006-06-25 (1)

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