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Band listens to Bobby Watson and Tyrone Clark play

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The band watches Bobby Watson play an alto saxophone in a tent with open sides. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall stool in the left foreground...

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

City Light Jazz Ensemble in front of the Gem Theater

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City Light Jazz Ensemble sits in and stands by a 1946 De Soto convertible in front of the Gem Theater with Ida McBeth leaning on the right front hood...

Date Published
1988
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Eddie Saunders is surprised by Lisa Henry as Ida McBeth looks on

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Eddie Saunders, holding a saxophone, opens his mouth in surprise at Lisa Henry, jazz singer, who is mostly obscured by Ida McBeth, jazz singer. Ida...

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

Ida McBeth

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Jazz singer Ida McBeth looks up and to the right in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed on the upper right hand corner of the photograph, "Ida...

Date Published
1994
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Ida McBeth and Lisa Henry watch the band play

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, slightly bends his knees as he stands and looks down at the fiddle he is playing with his bow. He wears a fedora hat. Lisa...

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

Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

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Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.

Date Published
June-19-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

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Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.

Date Published
June-17-2005
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

Ida McBeth sings with the band in the festival tent

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Ida McBeth closes her eyes and lifts her head as she sits on a tall stool and sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand. She expressively...

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

Ida McBeth sings with the band in the festival tent

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Ida McBeth lifts her head and sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she sits on a tall stool in a tent with open sides. Claude...

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

Lisa Henry sings as Eddie Saunders and Ida McBeth look at each other

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Lisa Henry, jazz singer, closes her eyes and grins as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand. Ida McBeth, jazz singer, sits on a tall...

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

Miss Ida McBeth

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Miss Ida McBeth, local blues and jazz singer, laughs as she stands in her stage costume and looks at the camera.

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (7)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (4)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (14)

Genres

  • Color photographs (8)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Promotional materials (1)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (4)
  • 1981-1990 (2)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • African American women (13)
  • Jazz musicians (13)
  • Jazz singers (13)
  • African American jazz musicians (11)
  • African American men (7)
  • Fiddlers (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Saxophonists (5)
  • Blues festivals (3)
  • Music festivals (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Singers (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (7)
  • Kessler, Stan (6)
  • Henry, Lisa (Vocalist) (4)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (2)
  • Clark, Tyrone (Bassist) (1)
  • (-) McBeth, Ida (14)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (2)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Jazz Lovers' Fall Crawl (1988 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-09-15 (7)
  • 2005-06-25 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 2005-06-17 (1)
  • 2005-06-19 (1)

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