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Ahmad Alaadeen, Gerald Dunn, Bobby Watson, Tyrone Clark and Chris Clarke play

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Ahmad Alaadeen is nearly out of the left side of the photograph in the foreground playing a soprano saxophone and wearing a fedora hat. A trumpet can...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Robert Watson, Sr., and Marilyn Maye enjoy a conversation

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Ahmad Alaadeen and Robert Watson, Sr., smile as they talk with Marilyn Maye while seated at the Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Gem...

Date Published
May-20-2006
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Band listens to Bobby Watson and Tyrone Clark play

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The band watches Bobby Watson play an alto saxophone in a tent with open sides. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool in the left foreground...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Bobby Watson

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Bobby Watson, jazz saxophonist, sits with his forearms crossed over his knees and looks back at the camera over his right shoulder in a close-up...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Watson

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Bobby Watson, jazz saxophonist, leans forward on his elbows with his forearms crossed and gives a slight smile to the camera. A saxophone lies on its...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Watson

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Bobby Watson, jazz saxophonist, grins at the camera and rests his chin on his right hand as an alto saxophone lies on a table in front of him. Printed...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Watson and Claude "Fiddler Williams at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson, with pony tail and holding an alto saxophone, smiles to his left at Claude" Fiddler" Williams who is playing the fiddle with his eyes...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Bobby Watson, wearing a fedora and suspenders, closes his eyes as he plays an alto saxophone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson performs at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson, wearing an earring, blows into an alto saxophone in front of a microphone at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine for the occasion of Claude...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs with the band in a festival tent

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Eddie Saunders is mostly out of the photograph on the left side with his saxophone lying across his lap. He sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams who...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays in the performance tent

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Ahmad Alaadeen, saxophone, stands with his back to the camera under the performance tent in the left foreground of the photograph. Across the stage...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Bobby Watson, and J.T. Lotozo perform during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival

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In the glow of a light hanging from a tent or awning covering the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands sideways to the camera drawing his bow...

Date Published
July-21-2000
July-23-2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Diane Schuur - Bobby Watson, Jr. - Monty Alexander - Dr. John

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Diane Schuur, jazz singer and pianist, Bobby Watson, Jr., jazz saxophonist, Dr. John, jazz and blues singer, and Monty Alexander, jazz pianist, in...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Eddie Saunders is surprised by Lisa Henry as Ida McBeth looks on

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Eddie Saunders, holding a saxophone, opens his mouth in surprise at Lisa Henry, jazz singer, who is mostly obscured by Ida McBeth, jazz singer. Ida...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Gerald Dunn, Tyrone Clark, and Chris Clarke play inside a performance tent

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Lisa Henry, jazz singer, is mostly out of the left side of the photograph clapping her hands to the music of Gerald Dunn playing the tenor saxophone...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Leon Brady, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Robert Watson, Sr. watch the proceedings

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Leon Brady, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Robert Watson, Sr. sitting during the Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Gem Theater in Kansas City...

Date Published
May-20-2006
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Leon Brady, Ahmad Alaadeen, Robert Watson, Sr., and Marilyn Maye

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Leon Brady, Ahmad Alaadeen, Robert Watson, Sr., and Marilyn Maye (mostly obscured) seated during Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Gem...

Date Published
May-20-2006
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Lisa Henry and the band perform

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Eddie Saunders sits and plays a baritone saxophone while Tyrone Clark stands and plays double bass and Chris Clarke sits plays the keyboard. Tyrone...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Myra Taylor and Bobby Watson at the Grand Emporium

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Myra Taylor sits in a wheelchair to the right of Bobby Watson. She holds her purse. Bobby has his left arm around her shoulders, is wearing a straw...

Date Published
May-23-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Saxophonists
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953-

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (8)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (5)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (4)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Group portraits (14)
  • Color photographs (11)
  • Black & white photographs (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (9)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Publicity photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (6)
  • 1991-2000 (5)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • African American men (17)
  • African American jazz musicians (16)
  • Fiddlers (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Jazz musicians, White (7)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Pianists (6)
  • Double bassists (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Jazz festivals (3)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Women jazz singers (2)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Jamaicans (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • (-) Saxophonists (20)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (10)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (5)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (5)
  • Dunn, Gerald (5)
  • Kessler, Stan (5)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (4)
  • Saunders, Eddie (4)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (3)
  • Brady, Leon (2)
  • Maye, Marilyn (2)
  • McBeth, Ida (2)
  • Alexander, Monty (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Dr. John, 1941-2019 (1)
  • Lotozo, J. T. (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Schuur, Diane (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • (-) Watson, Bobby, 1953- (20)

Events

  • Coda Jazz Fund Lifetime Achievements Awards (2006 : Kansas City, Mo.) (3)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Fest (1991 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-09-15 (7)
  • 2006-05-20 (3)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 2001-02-19 (2)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2000-07-22 (1)
  • 2000-07-23 (1)
  • 2003-05-23 (1)

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