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Ahmad Alaadeen participates in mixing genres of music

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An unidentified guitarist, Chris Clarke (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), an unidentified harmonica player, Tyrone Clark (bass, mostly obscured)...

Date Published
August-11-2001
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with students

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, performing with a band, possibly Eddie Baker's Charlie Parker Academy band, at an outdoor concert in front of a...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Blue City Band performing

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Four members of the five member Blue City Band, a blues band comprised of three white men and two African American men, perform in a tent. Farthest to...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

Finger Roll

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Jazz duo Finger Roll (Thomas Dawson Jr., and Dennis Nelson) stand together as Dennis Nelson holds an acoustic guitar. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Harmonica player takes the solo as Ahmad Alaadeen participates in mixing genres of music

Image

An unidentified guitarist, mostly out of frame, Chris Clarke (piano, mostly obscured), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), Tyrone Clark (bass, mostly obscured...

Date Published
August-11-2001
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Henry Townsend at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Henry Townsend, wearing a bowler hat, suit and striped shoes, sits and looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles 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

Levee Town and Simplexity sit outside on the steps

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Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside...

Date Published
November-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Raindogs and Saffire the Uppity Blues Women

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Raindogs & Saffire the Uppity Blues Women, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand in a group grinning at the photographer are Jim...

Date Published
July-06-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

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Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women, a blues band comprised of one African American woman and two white women, laugh as they hold their instruments; a...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Sonny Kenner sings into a microphone as he performs with a jazz combo on the Country Club Plaza

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Sonny Kenner (guitar, vocals), wearing a pith helmet and bending his knees as he sings into a microphone, performs with an unidentified drummer...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Tyrone Clark, Donivan Bailey, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Butch Berman hang out onstage

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Ahmad Alaadeen talking with guitarist, Butch Berman, in front of conga drums as Tyrone Clark (bass, talking with an unidentified man, possibly Todd...

Date Published
May-28-2005
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection
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Member of

  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (5)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (3)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (13)

Genres

  • Group portraits (12)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Snapshots (3)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (6)
  • 2001-2010 (5)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (8)
  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Double bassists (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Blues musicians (5)
  • Harmonica players (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Bass guitarists (3)
  • Fiddlers (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African American guitarists (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Banjoists (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • (-) Guitarists (13)
  • (-) Keyboard players (13)

Subjects, Geographic

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

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (5)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (4)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Bailey, Donivan (1)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (1)
  • Berman, Byron L. (Butch) (1)
  • Blackman, Wes (1)
  • Blaze (1)
  • Bowman, Bob (Bassist) (1)
  • Breihan, Jeff (1)
  • Dawson, Thomas (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Doder, Keith (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Fleeman, Rod (1)
  • Gilmore, Mark (1)
  • Go-Go Ray (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hicks, Bryan (1)
  • Jones, Jeff (Keytarist) (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Kessler, Stan (1)
  • Knox, Marquise (1)
  • Leslie, Tyson (1)
  • Long, Russ (1)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (1)
  • Nelson, Dennis (Guitarist) (1)
  • Park, Kim (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Robinson, George (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Strait, Todd (1)
  • Stringer, Dean (1)
  • Tims, David (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Wilkerson, Dave (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Events

  • "Cultural Exchanges: Jazz and Missouri Fiddling" (2001) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (1)
  • Topeka Jazz Festival (2005 : Topeka, Kan.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (3)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 2001-08-11 (2)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 1999-11-18 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2005-05-28 (1)
  • 2006-06-25 (1)

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