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Allen Monroe at the Kansas City, KS Blues Street Fest

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Allen Monroe, keyboards reflected in the lenses of his glasses, wears a Vietnam veteran ball cap and looks directly at the photographer with a...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Watson at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2003

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Bobby Watson blows into an alto saxophone that has a microphone in front of it during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-28-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Eddie Saunders the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Fest

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Eddie Saunders, wearing a beret, tilts his head to the left as he blows into a saxophone at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Ida McBeth, wearing a bejeweled pillbox hat, throws her head back and laughs as she stands on stage and holds a certificate which states "Unified...

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Ida McBeth looks coyly to her right as she sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano playing for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann at the KCK Street Blues Festival

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The left side of Jay McShann smiling straight ahead as he sits at a piano wearing a ball cap. A large crowd is behind him smiling and clapping at the...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band

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Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band at an unidentified venue in Kansas City. Farthest to the left Bunnie "Bumps" Love smiles to her right...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Scamps at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Fest 2004

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The Scamps on stage at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Fest in 2004. Lucky Wesley is standing on the right side of a stage, smiling, wearing a...

Date Published
June-04-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Wild Women and Bill Maness at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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The Wild Women including Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards, and Myra Taylor, sit on stage in chairs singing into microphones under posters of...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American jazz musicians
  • Kansas City (Kan.)

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (10)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (11)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (11)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Group portraits (5)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (8)
  • 1991-2000 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (11)
  • Blues festivals (8)
  • African American men (6)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Music festivals (6)
  • Pianists (6)
  • African American women (5)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Berets (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (11)

Subjects, Geographic

  • (-) Kansas City (Kan.) (11)

Subjects, People

  • McBeth, Ida (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Taylor, Myra (2)
  • Edwards, Millie (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • Monroe, Allen (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Tucker, Lori (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (3)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2003) (1)

Date Published

  • 2000-06-24 (2)
  • 2004-06-26 (2)
  • 2005-06-25 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 2003-06-28 (1)
  • 2004-06-04 (1)

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