Don Bennett of the Marcia Ball Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from below left, grins at the photographer as he plays...
Ed Dix (right) posing for a photo with three unidentified white male musicians (drummer, double bassist, bass guitarist). All are holding their...
Ed Dix (right) performing with bass guitarist Jeff Simon, double bassist Jay Eckert, and an unidentified white male drummer. Unidentified venue.
Ed Dix (right) performing with bass guitarist Jeff Simon, double bassist Jay Eckert, and an unidentified white male drummer. Unidentified venue.
Ed Dix (right) performing with bass guitarist Jeff Simon, double bassist Jay Ecker, and an unidentified white male drummer. Unidentified venue.
Ed Dix (right) performing with bass guitarist Jeff Simon, double bassist Jay Ecker, and an unidentified white male drummer. The drummer is looking...
Eric Bibb stands as he sings into a microphone and plays an acoustic guitar next to Dave Bronze, who is seated and looking down while he plays an...
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke pose for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Back row: Holding a bass is Landon Murray. Wearing a fedora and a tie is Bill...
Four musicians performing at an event at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The man on the left is playing trumpet while facing left. A man...
In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith...
Jamaican bass player Fully Fullwood looks forward as he plays the bass. He wears a cap. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Fully Fullwood...
Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, wearing a ball cap, stands and sings into a microphone while playing an electric bass at the Annual Blues Masters at the...
Glen Therman, wearing a perspiration soaked shirt and a flat cap, looks intensely to his left as he plays a bass during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...
British rock bassist and vocalist Gordon Haskell looks down with a smile and scratches his forehead with his left hand. Printed in the margin below...
Greg Silva, of the band Roomful of Blues, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, purses his lips and leans forward as he plays an...
An unidentified African American man holding a tenor guitar while wearing mix-matched clothing and a derby hat stands to the right and gives a...
Luqman Hamza (piano) and LaVerne Barker (bass), wearing a ball cap, rehearsing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Ahmad Alaadeen...
Luqman Hamza (piano), LaVerne Barker (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and an unidentified drummer rehearsing at Mutual Musicians Foundation in...
James Albright looks seriously at the neck of a bass guitar as he stands in front of a microphone wearing headphones at the Myra Taylor recording...
James Gilbert, in an open-collared shirt, rolls his lips and looks down to his left at the neck of the bass as he plucks the string with his right...
James Whitney looks to his right at the photographer with a gleam in his eyes as he sings into the microphone and plays a bass at Mill Creek Brewery...
Rock pianist and vocalist Jason D. Williams stands on stage behind a microphone with his eyes closed and his mouth wide open. He wears a beige sweater...
Jay McShann in a ball cap seated at a piano and talking to someone out of the picture; an unidentified African American male bass guitarist is...
Jazz musicians performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Tommy Ruskin playing drums, Bryan...
Jazz musicians performing at a Halloween event at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Todd Wilkinson playing...
