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Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A...

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits in the Blue Room

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Blanche Williams looks to the left side of the photograph as she speaks to someone who out of the photograph. She sits in the Blue Room in the...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Carson on stage, speaks into a microphone looking left with a keyboard player, drummer, and guitarist behind him. A large crowd is in front of...

Date Published
May-30-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Carl Weathersby at the Grand Emporium

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Carl Weathersby stands in the middle of the audience playing his guitar at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
February-03-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his table in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at something on the table he is sitting at in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with the band behind him and audience in front of him

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In a photograph from the side of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Fans of jazz music and Claude "Fiddler" Williams fill the Blue Room

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The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri is full of fans of jazz music on the occasion of...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room

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Five fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date,...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Fans of jazz music sit in a crowded Blue Room

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The audience (both white people and African Americans) sits at tables or stands at museum exhibits in a crowded Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

From the side of the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward and enthusiastic audience

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In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward...

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

Honeyboy Edwards at BB's Lawnside Bar-B-Q

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David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the national acts to perform during the Acoustic Blues Showcase at BB's Lawnside BBQ, wearing a baseball cap, sits...

Date Published
September-13-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Kansas City Blues Society 20th Anniversary Celebration at the Grand Emporium

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A photograph of the seated audience during the Kansas City Blues Society's 20th Anniversary at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
December-17-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Midget Hulett at the Grand Emporium

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Midget Hulett dances in an animal print dress at the Grand Emporium. The crowd is visible seated behind her.

Date Published
October-01-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Richard Ross smiles at the audience as he performs with a band at the Levee

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Richard Ross stands and smiles out at the audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as he performs with an...

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

The seated audience claps along

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A seated audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, claps along enthusiastically at a concert of Claude "Fiddler"...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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  • Music audiences
  • Kansas City (Mo.)

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (12)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (5)

Types

  • photographs (17)

Genres

  • Group portraits (15)
  • Color photographs (12)
  • Black & white photographs (5)
  • Gelatin silver prints (5)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (4)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Music fans (14)
  • African American men (11)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • African American women (6)
  • Fiddlers (5)
  • Blues musicians (4)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Musicians' spouses (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Music audiences (17)

Subjects, Geographic

  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (17)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (5)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Carson, Bobby (Blues guitarist) (1)
  • Edwards, Honeyboy (1)
  • Hulett, Midget (1)
  • Pearson, Al (1)
  • Ross, Richard (Vocalist) (1)
  • Weathersby, Carl (1)

Events

  • Acoustic Blues Showcase (10th : 2003 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-02-19 (7)
  • 1991 (4)
  • 2000 (4)
  • 2000-12-17 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2001-02-03 (1)
  • 2002-10-01 (1)
  • 2003-09-13 (1)
  • 2004-05-30 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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