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Band warms up

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In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the...

Date Published
April-13-2001
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 performs in the Savoy Lounge

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on barstool as he plays his fiddle and performs at the Savoy Lounge, 355 W. 41st Street in the Manhattan borough in New...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams' trio entertains at a café

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project Band, which includes: Branden Hudspeth, Sue Stubbs, Jan Faircloth, Paul Greenlease. Standing inside the Grand Emporium...

Date Published
January-09-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project, including Brandon Hudspeth, closing his eyes and playing the guitar, Jan Faircloth, playing the drums, Sue Stubbs...

Date Published
January-11-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush, DC Bellamy and Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox

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Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush and a group of six unidentified people stand behind a seated DC Bellamy. Marvine McKeithen stands beside DC Bellamy at...

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

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Some of the crowd dances while others sit with drinks in front of the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. A guitarist and a harmonica player...

Date Published
April-08-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Dan Pliskow and Spencer Barefield perform in a barista bar

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Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

DC Bellamy at the Club Paradox

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DC Bellamy, wearing a fedora and holding a drink, points a finger at a patron seated at a table as he regales them with a story at Club Paradox in...

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ed Dix playing saxophone in a bar

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Ed Dix playing saxophone in an unidentified bar. An unidentified bearded white man playing guitar is next to Dix.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Dean Stringer looking to the side...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Dean Stringer looking to the side...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Larry Garner at the Grand Saloon

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Larry Garner, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Saloon during the Mardi Gras Club Crawl, wears a fedora, leather vest and leather pants...

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

Roger Naber, Mary Faith, Brody Buster, and Shannon Curfman at the Grand Emporium

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Brody Buster and Shannon Curfman, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand next to Roger Naber and Mary Faith in front of the signature...

Date Published
November-15-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium.

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Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in...

Date Published
September-05-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams prepare to perform

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Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, looks seriously at a piece of music from his music stand that he holds in his hands, as he sits in a barista bar...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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  • Bars (Drinking establishments)
  • Guitarists

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (10)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (5)
  • Betty Crow Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Group portraits (16)
  • Black & white photographs (10)
  • Gelatin silver prints (10)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Portrait photographs (3)
  • Snapshots (3)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (8)
  • 1991-2000 (5)

Subjects

  • African American men (11)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Blues musicians (10)
  • Jazz musicians (8)
  • Double bassists (7)
  • Women, White (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (5)
  • Fiddlers (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (5)
  • Singers (5)
  • Music audiences (4)
  • Music fans (4)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Jukeboxes (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Overalls (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Bars (Drinking establishments) (18)
  • (-) Guitarists (18)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)
  • Detroit (Mich.) (4)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (5)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (4)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (3)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (2)
  • Faircloth, Jan (2)
  • Greenlease, Paul (2)
  • Hicks, Bryan (2)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (2)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (2)
  • Stringer, Dean (2)
  • Stubbs, Sue (Guitarist) (2)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (1)
  • Buster, Brody, 1984- (1)
  • Carson, Bobby (Blues guitarist) (1)
  • Curfman, Shannon (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Faith, Mary (Club patron) (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Holmes, Sherman (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Long, Russ (1)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Weathersby, Carl (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (4)
  • 2001-04-13 (4)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 2004-03-08 (2)
  • 1999-02-16 (1)
  • 1999-11-15 (1)
  • 2001-01-11 (1)
  • 2001-02-03 (1)
  • 2002-01-09 (1)
  • 2002-04-08 (1)
  • 2002-09-05 (1)
  • 2004-05-30 (1)

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