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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with Luqman Hamza and Rusty Tucker

Image

On the left side of the photograph at an unidentified venue, possibly the Mutual Musicians Foundation, Musicians Local 627, in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

DownBeat Magazine shoot at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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A bass player stands in the corner of the Mutual Musicians Foundation wearing a straw hat and looking down at the bass. Luqman Hamza sits at the piano...

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

Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long during a panel discussion

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Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long stand behind a table and look at the photographer during a panel discussion...

Date Published
May-12-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long during a panel discussion

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Frank Smith, Luqman Hamza, Ahmad Alaadeen, Sonny Kenner, and Russ Long stand behind a table and look at the photographer during a panel discussion...

Date Published
May-12-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Gathering of musicians outside Mutual Musicians Foundation building

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(Top row) Luqman Hamza, unidentified, Orestie "Rusty" Tucker, unidentified, unidentified, (second row from top) unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Everette...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Gerald Dunn, Luqman Hamza, and Geneva Price at the Blue Room

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Gerald Dunn is blowing into an alto saxophone as he looks at Geneva Price. Luqman Hamza is playing a piano behind Geneva and turning his head to the...

Date Published
August-05-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony

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Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony in Kansas City. Front row from left to right: two unidentified men, an unidentified woman, Queen...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony

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Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony in Kansas City. Front row from left to right: two unidentified men, Carmell Jones, Queen Bey...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony

Image

Jazz musicians at an Elder Statesmen Awards ceremony in Kansas City. Front row from left to right: an unidentified man, Carmell Jones, Queen Bey...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Luqman Hamza at the Gem Theater

Image

Luqman Hamza, back to the photographer, sits at a Yamaha piano and looks over his right shoulder to sing into the microphone during the Living Blues...

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

Luqman Hamza at the piano in the Blue Room

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Luqman Hamza plays the piano, sitting sideways to the photographer's right at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine.

Date Published
August-05-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Luqman Hamza performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza

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Luqman Hamza looks to his right and smiles at the photographer as his hands play the keys of a piano at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

Date Published
August-07-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor, Clark Terry, Sam Johnson, Mary Moore, Pearl Thuston, and Luqman Hamza gather together for a photograph

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Group shot of Sam Johnson, farthest left, Ahmad Alaadeen (third from right), Pearl Thuston (second from right), Luqman Hamza (far right), Myra Taylor...

Date Published
May-02-2010
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Scamps perform in the Blue Room

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The Scamps (Luqman Hamza playing piano, Arthur Jackson and Eddie Saunders holding saxophones and talking to each other, Rusty Tucker holding a trumpet...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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
  • Kansas City (Mo.)
  • Hamza, Luqman

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (6)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (3)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (15)

Genres

  • Group portraits (12)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (5)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (9)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (15)
  • Jazz musicians (15)
  • African American men (11)
  • Pianists (11)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • Guitarists (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Organists (2)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (5)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (15)

Subjects, People

  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (5)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (5)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (4)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (4)
  • Brady, Leon (3)
  • Jones, Carmell (3)
  • Parkinson, Michael, 1950- (3)
  • Queen Bey (3)
  • Saunders, Eddie (3)
  • Simes, Bob (3)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (2)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (2)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (2)
  • Long, Russ, 1937-2006 (2)
  • Taylor, Myra (2)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Allyson, Karrin (1)
  • Anderson, Jackie (Musician) (1)
  • Dixon, Donald (1)
  • Dunn, Gerald (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Johnson, Sam, Jr. (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Searcy, Roy (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • (-) Hamza, Luqman (15)

Events

  • Tradin' 4s Series: On the Cusp (1999 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • "Duke Ellington Tribute: Jammin' at the Gem" concert series (2010 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (3)
  • 1998-08-05 (2)
  • 1999-05-12 (2)
  • 1999-09-18 (2)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 2000-01-22 (1)
  • 2000-06-09 (1)
  • 2001-02-19 (1)
  • 2002-08-07 (1)
  • 2010-05-02 (1)

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