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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 warms up

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In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the...

Date Published
April-13-2001
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
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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
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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
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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

Collaboration

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, on the right side of the photograph stands sideways to the audience to look back at Dan Pliskow, double bassist, and the...

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

Marcus Belgrave and Claude "Fiddler" Williams have a cheerful greeting

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, laughs as he put his left arm around the shoulders of Claude "Fiddler" Williams, who is also laughing as they stand just...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave causes Claude "Fiddler" Williams to laugh

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams laughs as he holds his fiddle and bow in his left hand and stands next to Marcus Belgrave. Marcus has his hand on Claude's...

Date Published
April-12-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave closes his eyes as he plays his trumpet

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Marcus Belgrave, from his right side, leans back in the chair in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave plays the piano while a woman looks on

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Marcus Belgrave looks down at the keys of a baby grand piano without a lid that he is playing in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus Belgrave uses the microphone as most of the band plays

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, points at the audience that is not in the photograph and speaks or sings into a microphone he holds with his other hand...

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

Marcus Belgrave, Charlie Gabriel, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Marcus Belgrave, holding a trumpet, and Bill Ensley, saxophonist, wearing bowler hats and burgundy vests, stand on either side of Claude "Fiddler"...

Date Published
April-12-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus, Claude, and Bill stand together for a photograph as others look on

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A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass...

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

Singing is also required sometimes

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Charlie Gabriel, saxophone, Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, and Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, all grin as they sing into a microphone held by Marcus in...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (16)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Color photographs (16)
  • Group portraits (12)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (16)
  • African American men (16)
  • Jazz musicians (16)
  • Trumpet players (15)
  • Fiddlers (13)
  • Jazz musicians, White (11)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Double bassists (10)
  • Saxophonists (10)
  • Guitarists (9)
  • Auditoriums (7)
  • Trombonists (7)
  • Schools (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Bowler hats (2)
  • Vests (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Detroit (Mich.) (4)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (14)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (11)
  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (10)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (9)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (5)
  • Harris, Isaac Jerome (3)
  • (-) Belgrave, Marcus (16)

Date Published

  • 2001-04-10 (6)
  • 2001-04-08 (4)
  • 2001-04-13 (3)
  • 2001-04-12 (2)
  • 2001-04-14 (1)

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