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Ahmad Alaadeen, Fiddler Williams, and George Benson visiting Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, George Benson stand in front of a wall of photographs of members and performers at...

Date Published
September-11-1998
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, Gerald Dunn, Bobby Watson, Tyrone Clark and Chris Clarke play

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Ahmad Alaadeen is nearly out of the left side of the photograph in the foreground playing a soprano saxophone and wearing a fedora hat. A trumpet can...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays in the performance tent

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Ahmad Alaadeen, saxophone, stands with his back to the camera under the performance tent in the left foreground of the photograph. Across the stage...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Lisa Henry and Ida McBeth watch the band play

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Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool sideways to the camera and looks back at the band performing in a tent with open sides. Lisa Henry sits...

Date Published
September-15-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Saxophonists play as a crowd watches at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (with news camera), unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Saxophonists play as a crowd watches at Charlie Parker's gravesite during the 21-sax salute

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Unidentified (in background, mostly obscured), unidentified, unidentified, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white ball cap...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Shahid (Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tayammum Falah, and Fiddler Williams)

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The original members of The Shahid, a Nation of Islam music group first formed in the 1960s (Sonny Kenner, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tayammum Falah, and Claude...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection
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  • Alaadeen, Ahmad
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004

Member of

  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (4)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (7)

Genres

  • Color photographs (7)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Snapshots (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Fiddlers (6)
  • Violinists (4)
  • African American guitarists (3)
  • African American men (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • African American Muslims (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Black Muslims (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (1)

Subjects, People

  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (2)
  • Dunn, Gerald (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (2)
  • Benson, George, 1943- (1)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (1)
  • Clarke, Chris (Pianist) (1)
  • Falah, Tayammum (1)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Kessler, Stan (1)
  • McBeth, Ida (1)
  • (-) Alaadeen, Ahmad (7)
  • (-) Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (7)

Events

  • 21-Sax Salute (Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • 18th & Vine Gala “Ellington at 99: Livin’ on the Vine” (1998 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-09-15 (3)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 1999 (2)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1998-09-11 (1)

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