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Adam Page and Duck Warner at the Gem Theater

Image

Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party...

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

Adam Page at the Gem Theater

Image

Adam Page, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, looks down at the neck of a guitar during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.

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

Bill Carter at the Club Mardi Gras

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Bill Carter, wearing a straw hat, looks out as he plays a guitar at the Club Mardi Gras, 19th & Vine, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
September-09-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bill Carter at the Gem Theater

Image

Bill Carter, wearing a fedora and a light-colored tux with dark lapels and sides stripes, faces forward with his eyes shifted to the right, as he...

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

Blind Boys of Alabama at Rhythm & Ribs

Image

Blind Boys of Alabama, which includes Clarence Fountain and Jimmy Lee Carter, wearing sunglasses and matching suits, walk across stage with a hand on...

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Chris Murrell at Rhythm & Ribs

Image

Chris Murrell, from the right, sings into a microphone during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Little Hatch, Millage Gilbert, and Debbie Dennis at the Gem Theater

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles while looking down as he stands to the right of a seated Little Hatch wearing a printed tuxedo, bowtie, and a fedora...

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

David "Honeyboy" Edwards at the Blue Room

Image

David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the national acts to perform at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, sits and sings into a microphone as he holds a guitar...

Date Published
January-24-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Doug Hemphill at the Gem Theater

Image

Doug Hemphill, wearing a zip-neck sweater, a large cross necklace and a sports jacket, stands looking out as he plays a "Flying V" guitar during the...

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

Eugene Smiley at the Gem Theater

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Eugene Smiley stands and looks over his right shoulder as he plays the guitar during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.

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

Harry Hypolite at the Blue Room

Image

Harry Hypolite, one of the national acts to perform at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, wearing a French beret, closes his eyes as he sings into a...

Date Published
February-28-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

James Gilbert at the Gem Theater

Image

James Gilbert, in an open-collared shirt, rolls his lips and looks down to his left at the neck of the bass as he plucks the string with his right...

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

KC Kelsey Hill at the Gem Theater

Image

KC Kelsey Hill gapes at the audience over his left shoulder as he plays a guitar in a wide-brimmed hat during the Living Blues Party at the Gem...

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

Koko Taylor at Rhythm & Ribs

Image

Koko Taylor, from her right side, scrunches her face as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at...

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

KoolAide at the Gem Theater

Image

KoolAide wearing a cape, leather jacket, and sweater while playing the electric guitar during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.

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

Little Hatch plays the harmonica at the Gem Theater

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Provine "Little" Hatch, wearing a brocade tuxedo, blows into a harmonica attached to a microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. He...

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

Millage Gilbert at the Gem Theater

Image

Millage Gilbert, wearing a Fedora, a double-breasted suit, and sunglasses, plays the guitar as he stands behind a microphone during the Living Blues...

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

Richard Townsend at the Gem Theater

Image

Richard Townsend, standing, wearing a double-breasted suit and holding a microphone near the right side of his head, looks down during the Living...

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

Roy Searcy and his cake

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Roy Searcy, wearing a pinstripe suit and a fedora hat, grins at the photographer with a cake in front of him that has written in frosting, "God Bless...

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

Roy Searcy at the Gem Theater

Image

Roy Searcy, right side to the camera, wearing a fedora and a pinstripe suit, is smiling to his right towards a microphone as he plays a piano during...

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

Roy Searcy at the Gem Theater

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Roy Searcy salutes with his right hand from the brim of his Fedora hat in a striped suit at the Living Blues Party in the Gem Theater at 18th & Vine...

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

Sonny Kenner at the Gem Theater

Image

Sonny Kenner, looks down at the neck of the guitar he's playing during the Living Blues Party Gem, Theater. The guitar is scratched and worn. Sonny...

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

Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, Linda Shell and others at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Blues musicians
  • 18th and Vine District

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (23)

Types

  • photographs (23)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (23)
  • Gelatin silver prints (23)
  • Portrait photographs (19)
  • Group portraits (4)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (18)
  • 2001-2010 (5)

Subjects

  • African American men (21)
  • Guitarists (14)
  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • Singers (5)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Blues festivals (3)
  • Jazz festivals (3)
  • Music festivals (3)
  • Blues (Music) (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Bottleneck (Guitar playing) (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Harmonica music (Blues) (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Blues musicians (23)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (23)
  • (-) 18th and Vine District (23)

Subjects, People

  • Searcy, Roy (4)
  • Carter, Bill (Guitarist) (2)
  • Gilbert, Millage (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (2)
  • Page, Adam (Guitarist) (2)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (2)
  • Carter, Jimmy Lee (1)
  • Dennis, Debbie (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Edwards, Honeyboy (1)
  • Fountain, Clarence (1)
  • Gilbert, James (Bassist) (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Hemphill, Doug (1)
  • Hill, KC Kelsey (1)
  • Hypolite, Harry (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • KoolAide (1)
  • Murrell, Chris (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Smiley, Eugene (1)
  • Taylor, Koko (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Warner, Duck (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)

Events

  • Living Blues Party (2000) (15)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (3)

Date Published

  • 2000-01-22 (16)
  • 2005-06-18 (3)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 2000-09-09 (1)
  • 2002-01-24 (1)
  • 2002-02-28 (1)

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