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Ahmad Alaadeen, Fiddler Williams, and George Benson visiting Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, George Benson stand in front of a wall of photographs of members and performers at...

Date Published
September-11-1998
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

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

All play except Marcus Belgrave

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, turns his head and smiles at Claude "Fiddler" Williams as Claude plays his fiddle in the center of the stage. Claude's head...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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

Band performing for Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday party

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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

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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

Big Bill Bissonnette takes the solo

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Big Bill Bissonnette closes his eyes as he takes the trombone solo on stage on the farthest right of the photograph as the other band members check...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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 helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 93rd birthday

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Bobby Watson holds an alto saxophone and smiles to his left at Claude "Fiddler" Williams closing his eyes and playing the fiddle at the Blue Room...

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

Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams smile off to the left

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Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams stand together smiling off to the left side of the photograph in an auditorium in a school. Bill's...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Charlie Gabriel grabs the hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Charlie Gabriel holds his saxophone with his right hand as he grabs the right hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his left hand. Charlie turns his...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Clark Terry, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Buddy Tate, and others perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Clark Terry, flugelhorn, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, Buddy Tate, saxophone, and others including a drummer and a trombone player, perform at...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Buddy Tate head into the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Buddy Tate, wearing a brown and white large checked sports jacket and holding his saxophone in a case, looks to his left at Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Buddy Tate head into the Monterey Jazz Festival

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Buddy Tate sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at a restaurant table and grin at the camera.

Date Published
February-22-1991
February-22-2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Charlie Gabriel smile for the camera

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In a blurred photograph, Charlie Gabriel and Claude "Fiddler" Williams lean towards each other and smile as they stand together in an auditorium of a...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Joe Wilder

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, an unidentified African American saxophone player, and Joe Wilder, trumpet, stand together in front of the food table and...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and others performing

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams is playing his fiddle on the farthest right-hand side of the photograph. Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, Marcus Belgrave...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams entertains along with others

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Left to right: Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, from his right side; Jerome "Scrooge" Harris, drums, looking down and wearing a hat; Charlie Gabriel...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams gets the microphone next

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs at West End Gate

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as the plays his fiddle on the stage of the West End Gate bar in New York, N.Y. An unidentified...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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 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 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 plays with a band on a stage in a school auditorium

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A drum set on the left side of the photograph is too dark to see the drummer; likely Jerome Harris. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, looks left toward...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (45)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (4)
  • Betty Crow Collection (3)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (3)
  • Jay McShann Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (58)

Genres

  • Group portraits (53)
  • Color photographs (51)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (7)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 2001-2010 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (57)
  • African American jazz musicians (56)
  • Fiddlers (52)
  • African American men (51)
  • Men, White (35)
  • Jazz musicians, White (34)
  • Trumpet players (27)
  • Double bassists (25)
  • Guitarists (15)
  • Pianists (15)
  • Trombonists (15)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (13)
  • Auditoriums (10)
  • Violinists (9)
  • Schools (7)
  • African American women (6)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Birthdays (4)
  • African American guitarists (3)
  • Concerts (3)
  • Jazz festivals (3)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Music audiences (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Violin (2)
  • African American Muslims (1)
  • Art museums (1)
  • Birthday parties (1)
  • Black Muslims (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Vests (1)
  • (-) Saxophonists (58)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Boca Raton (Fla.) (7)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • 18th and Vine District (4)
  • Monterey (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (13)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (10)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (10)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (9)
  • Kessler, Stan (9)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (9)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (7)
  • Masso, George (7)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (7)
  • Higgins, Eddie, 1932-2009 (6)
  • Saunders, Eddie (6)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (5)
  • Dodgion, Jerry (5)
  • Dunn, Gerald (5)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (5)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (5)
  • May, Earl, 1927-2008 (5)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (4)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (4)
  • McBeth, Ida (4)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Wilder, Joe (4)
  • Colombo, Lou (3)
  • Harris, Isaac Jerome (3)
  • Locke, Eddie (3)
  • Tate, Buddy (3)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (2)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (2)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • Park, Kim (2)
  • Strait, Todd (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Benson, George, 1943- (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Falah, Tayammum (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Lotozo, J. T. (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, David, 1946- (1)
  • Williams, Joe, 1918-1999 (1)
  • (-) Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (58)

Events

  • 21-Sax Salute (Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • 18th & Vine Gala “Ellington at 99: Livin’ on the Vine” (1998 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-09-15 (10)
  • 2000-05-16 (7)
  • 2001-04-08 (7)
  • 2001-04-10 (5)
  • 1971 (4)
  • 1981 (4)
  • 1990 (4)
  • 2003-02-11 (4)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1980 (2)
  • 1992-10 (2)
  • 1999 (2)
  • 1999-07-17 (2)
  • 2001-02-19 (2)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1985-08-16 (1)
  • 1991-02-22 (1)
  • 1994-02 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1998-09-11 (1)
  • 2000-02-22 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2000-07-23 (1)
  • 2001-04-12 (1)

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