John "Spider Bruce" Mason performing in blackface at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. One of the last African American comedians to appear in...
John Packer with Jay McShann at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri; Packer is leaning on his bass watching McShann play piano; a microphone...
John Primer, blues singer and guitarist, plays an electric jazz guitar as he stands beside a railcar. He wears a light colored fedora hat with a dark...
John Weston, wearing a harmonica holder, looks at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at...
John Wilson, wearing a Batman ball cap and a Hawaiian print shirt, closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone held in his right hand at B. B.'s...
John Wilson, wearing a bowler hat and a tuxedo, smiles as he speaks into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues Society 20th Anniversary...
John Wilson, wearing an "all star DAD" ball cap and overalls, sings into a microphone he holds in his right hand during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...
Johnnie Bassett, wearing a cap, looks forward and sings into a microphone as he plays a guitar at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue...
Johnnie Bassett, wearing an flat cap, looks to his left as he fastens a capo to the neck of a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...
Johnnie Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at Roadhouse Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, wearing an Irish cap and a piano lapel pin, looks...
Johnnie Taylor, Jr., one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes and sings into a microphone he holds...
Blues and jazz vocalist Johnny Adams stands looking to the right wearing a double breasted pin-stripe suit and sunglasses. Printed below the...
Blues electric guitarist and vocalist Johnny Bassett stands in front of a brick wall resting his arms on the body of a guitar. Printed in the margin...
Rusty Tucker, drummer; Ben Kynard, saxophone; Claude "Fiddler" Williams playing a Danelectro double guitar; and possibly Pearl Thuston, piano, smile...
Blues harmonica player Johnny Dyer in a close-up photograph, plays a harmonica with both hands as his eyes twinkle at the photographer. Printed in the...
Blues harmonica player Johnny Dyer in a dual photograph has one photo of him speaking as he holds a harmonica in his left hand. The other photograph...
The Johnny Nocturne Band, a blues band comprised of seven white men and one African American man, with blues vocalist Brenda Boykin, stand in front of...
Johnny Taylor and Eddie Anderson (well known as Rochester with Jack Benny) performing on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.
Portrait of Jonah Jones with a hat and his trumpet.
Housing and Health Specialists from Kansas City visiting Richard Bolling in his office in Washington, D.C. Standing left to right are Josephine...
Joshua Nelson smiles as he holds a microphone in his right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
A profile photograph of Joshua Redman, a jazz saxophone player, from his right side as the back of his head is outlined by the curve of the saxophone...
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman leans to the left in order to look at the camera from behind the neck of a saxophone. Printed in the margin below the...
Joshua Redman, a jazz saxophone player, smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph where the top of his head is out of the photograph.
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman leans to the left in order to look at the camera from behind the neck of a saxophone. Printed in the margin below the...
