In a close-up photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and furrows his brow as he draws his bow across his fiddle during a performance. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-188.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Illinois Jacquet and Claude "Fiddler" Williams laugh as they shake hands and turn to face the camera on stage, most likely at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest rehearsal. Claude wears a ball cap from Washington D.C. and is casually dressed. Jacquet is dressed ready for his performance. Other band members can be seen seated on stage behind the two. The drum set has the words, "Kansas City Drum Works" printed on it.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-280.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams from his right side, smiles as he draws the bow across the strings of his fiddle. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Claude "Fiddler" Williams".
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-281.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down as he plays his fiddle. He wears a large-checked suit jacket with wide lapels.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-282.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly to the right as he plays his fiddle with an amplification cord from the fiddle to the power source on the floor. A grand piano is behind him with the pianist completely obscured by Claude, except for the pianist's pedal foot.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-283.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
An unidentified white male pianist, farthest left in the photograph, sits diagonally on the piano bench, turns his body toward the keys, and closes his eyes as he plays. Standing beside the bench, Claude "Fiddler" Williams faces center stage as he plays his fiddle. Standing at the end of the piano, an unidentified white male double bass player looks out toward fiddler, Jonathan Blake, standing center stage who turns his body to face Claude. Farthest right in the photograph is an unidentified white male drummer, sitting and playing as he smiles toward the piano player. Shadows of the double bass player and the fiddler at center stage are on the wall behind the combo. The backs of audience heads are in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-284.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with Steve Abshire, guitar, inside a church. Claude wears a brown leather suit as he stands center stage playing his fiddle. On the left side of the photograph, Steve Abshire looks down at the neck of his guitar as he plays and sit on a tall stool. A double bass lays down on the floor on its side behind Claude. A wall of religious symbols is at the back of the stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-285.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams performs on a stage in a church setting as he wears a suit of brown leather. A double bass lays on the floor on its side behind Claude. A wall of religious symbols lines the back of the stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-286.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage playing his fiddle. A wall of religious symbols lines the back of the stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-287.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
From stage right, the stage steps lead up to a grand piano that sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage playing his fiddle. A white male photographer leans against the stage apron from the floor in front of the stage to continue photographing the two performing. A wall of religious symbols lines the back of the stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-288.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the audience from center stage as he stands, holds his fiddle waist high, tucked under his right arm, and his bow dangles from the fingers of his left hand. Steve Abshire looks down at the stool he has been sitting on and stands while holding his jazz guitar. The backs of the audiences' heads are visible in the foreground of the photograph. A wall of religious symbols lines the back of the stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-289.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands center stage playing his fiddle. A wall of religious symbols lines the back of the stage.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-290.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams concentrates as he tries out a Mark Wood Viper violin while John Blake provides accompaniment by playing the piano at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Conference in San Diego, California. John's head is turned away from the camera and toward Claude. Two more conference attendees stand behind Claude and John.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-291.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In a series of three photographs, Claude "Fiddler" Williams blows up a modeling balloon as he is in a big crowd. Blanche Williams blows up a modeling balloon as she is in a big crowd. And then the two of them smile as they hold the balloons and talk as they are among a large crowd.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-292.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In the glow of a light hanging from a tent or awning covering the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands sideways to the camera drawing his bow across the strings of his fiddle as he share the stage with Bobby Watson holding his saxophone, and a seated J.T. Lotozo playing a jazz guitar, during the evening during the 2000 Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival held in Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-293.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In a double photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams' promotional photograph on the left of him holding up his fiddle with the body on a table he is seated at and the neck held beside his face as he smiles at the camera. And a photograph on the right of Blanche Williams standing behind an upholstered chair that Claude is sitting in on a stage in a brightly lit room. Printed between the photographs in white ink on a red background, "Claude "Fiddler" Williams, husband of Blanche."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-294.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a white teenage girl sit side-by-side grinning at the camera as they sit in possibly a mess hall at a fiddler camp. Claude wears a "St. Louis Church" t-shirt under a jacket. The girl wears summer clothing. There is a crowd standing and visiting behind the two.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-295.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands outside of the mess hall with a young white girl who is attending the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee. He puts his arm around her shoulders as the both smile at the camera and hold their commemorative drinking cups with the Montgomery Bell State Park logo on the cups. Claude's cup has his name written on the lid in black marker.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-296.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the right side of the photograph beside Alvin Brooks, and laughs as Alvin speaks into a microphone on the occasion of Claude's 92nd birthday. A large mural is on the wall behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-297.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns his head to look at the camera as he stands in front of a food truck with his wife, Blanche, smiling and standing in the center between him and Buck O'Neil. Buck smiles toward Claude. Buck wears a t-shirt that reads, "Hometown Grocers Presents The Buck O'Neil Negro Leagues Baseball Classic, June 2, 2001, Satchel Paige Memorial Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri." All three wear ball caps.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-298.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he kneels outdoors by a frame of cement and pushes his gloved hands into the cement to leave an impression for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame upon the occasion of his induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-299.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Alison Krauss smiles as she stands next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at Carnegie Hall. Claude points at the camera as he smiles. He wears a tuxedo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-300.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A frame of cement with the handprints pushed into the cement of Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame upon the occasion of his induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Signed below the impressions of his hands, "Claude Fiddler Williams."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-301.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Illinois Jacquet and Claude "Fiddler" Williams laugh as they shake hands and turn to face the camera on stage, most likely at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest rehearsal. Claude wears a ball cap from Washington D.C. and is casually dressed. Jacquet is dressed in a checked, double-breasted suit jacket. A drum set is visible behind Illinois.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-302.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Ahmad Alaadeen stands outside wearing a straw fedora hat and holding an alto saxophone ready to play. The date, "08/24/2008" is printed by the camera on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-303.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Group shot of Sam Johnson, farthest left, Ahmad Alaadeen (third from right), Pearl Thuston (second from right), Luqman Hamza (far right), Myra Taylor (seated, left), Clark Terry (seated, right), and others during part of the weekend festivities for the "Duke Ellington Tribute: Jammin' at the Gem" concert series at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "05/02/2010" is printed by the camera on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-304.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A crowd of mostly white men and women and one African American woman stand behind the two saxophone players. A spread of a floral arrangement is mostly obscured by Ahmad's body.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-305.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Lucky Wesley, Ben Kynard, and an unidentified African American man sit in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "03/01/2010" is printed by the camera on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-306.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles and leans to the center of the couch toward an African American boy fiddle student sitting next to him. The student is holding his fiddle and bow in playing position and looking directly at the camera. Framed posters of other musicians are on the wall behind the two.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-099.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A fiddler, a mandolin player wearing a cowboy hat, and a guitar player, stand on a stage behind microphones and perform. A keyboard and a blue drum set are behind them on stage. The backs of the heads of the audience is in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-100.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and faces the center of the stage as he plays his fiddle with a fiddler Matt Glaser and a group of unidentified white musicians including, a seated guitarist, and a standing double bass player. Venue is likely at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-101.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player, perform on stage. The back of the heads of the audience are visible in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-102.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands sideways on stage smiling at a seated white male guitarist who looks up at Claude with a big grin as he plays his guitar. A white female double bass player with her side to the camera looks at Claude as she plays.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-103.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player perform on stage. The mandolin player in the center of the trio sings into the microphone as he plays. He wears a cowboy hat. The guitarist also stands straight as she sings into the microphone. The back of the heads of the audience are visible in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-104.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Two white male fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated white male keyboard player and possibly a white male slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap. The backs of the heads of the audience are in the foreground of the photograph. The bottom of a box seat section is on the upper right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-105.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A trio of a white male fiddler, a white male mandolin player, and a white female guitar player perform on stage. The mandolin player in the center of the trio sings into the microphone as he plays. He wears a cowboy hat. The guitarist also stands straight as she sings into the microphone. The back of the heads of the audience are visible in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-106.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Two fiddlers stand on stage facing a seated keyboard player and possibly a slide guitarist with the slide guitar on his lap (all white men). The backs of the heads of the audience are in the foreground of the photograph. The bottom of a box seat section is on the upper right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-107.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A group of five white men and one woman string players join Claude "Fiddler" Williams on stage in a performance. Two fiddler players stand to the left side of the photograph. A guitarist sits next to Claude. A double bass player, and a guitar player stand to the right side of the photographer. The backs of the heads of the audience are visible int he foreground of the photograph. The bottom of a box seat section is on the upper right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-108.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A white male announcer stands center stage speaking into a microphone as he looks right toward Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is walking off the stage with his fiddle and bow.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-109.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends at the knees and smiles as he stands and plays his fiddle with a seated guitarist and a double bass player. The unidentified white male guitarist laughs as he looks up at Claude. The undientified white female double bassist stands with her side to the audience.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-110.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with another, white female, fiddler, and a double bass player completely obscured by Claude, and a seated white male jazz guitarist.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-111.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform with an unidentified white female double bass player and a seated white male jazz guitarist.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-112.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams listen to an unidentified white female fiddler play with an unidentified white female double bass player and a seated white male jazz guitarist.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-113.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak into a microphone as an unidentifed white female fiddler player and double bass player, and an unidentified, seated, white male jazz guitarist, perform.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-114.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an unidentified, seated, white male jazz guitarist perform.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-115.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an unidentified, seated, white male jazz guitarist perform. The double bassist is nearly completely obscured by Claude, yet her face and bass are visible.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-116.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting next to Claude at the Old Northeast Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "10 16 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-117.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
An African American male guitarist leans over and smiles, as he holds the neck of a guitar, to be included in a photograph with Claude "Fiddler" Williams who sits and holds his fiddle by the neck. Both wear tuxedos with bow ties.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-118.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage wearing an overcoat and fedora hat as he plays the fiddle with Russ Long, a keyboard player, who is sitting next to Claude at the Old Northeast Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. Two people with cameras have their back to the photographer as they stand by the edge of the stage. Houses and a church are behind the stage. A banner hangs from the stage front that reads, "One, Inc. Old Northeast, Inc. Serving Historic Northeast Since 1984." The date, "10 16 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-119.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams and an unidentified white man stand in front of a sculpted bust of President George Washington in the White House in Washington, D.C. as Claude has been presented with the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Art Master Artist for 1998. He holds up the framed certificate and grins at the camera. The man looks down at the certificate. Claude wears a boutonnière.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-120.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Rod Fleeman, playing guitar; Claude "Fiddler" Williams, playing the fiddle; and Keter Betts, playing a double bass, stand on stage at the National Folk Festival in a tent. A banner hung on the tent wall behind the stage reads, "National Folk Festival. Stage Presented Byߪ"
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-121.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Clark Terry, flugelhorn, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, Buddy Tate, saxophone, and others including a drummer and a trombone player, perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival to a crowded venue.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-122.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Rod Fleeman, guitar, stands looking to the right of the photograph as Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks straight out toward the audience and plays his fiddle during the National Folk Festival. A banner running along the stage edge can be partially read, "National Folk Festival. Stage Presented byߪThe Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga. Always Coca-Cola."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-123.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In a photograph from the side of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the edge of the stage playing his fiddle and facing the seated audience. The back of the unidentified African American keyboard player is to the photographer. An unidentified African American double bass player stands behind Claude with his side to the photographer.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-124.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward the audience on the edge of the stage playing his fiddle. The back of the unidentified African American keyboard player is to the photographer. The audience is clapping and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-125.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
A seated audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, claps along enthusiastically at a concert of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band who are out of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-126.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Richard Ross stands and speaks into a microphone from the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The unidentified African American drummer, double bass player, and keyboard player that are accompanying him are mostly out of the photograph. A part of the audience is visible beyond the drum set.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-127.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Richard Ross stands and smiles as he sings into a microphone he is holding in his left hand. Larry Holloway is playing the double bass behind Richard as they perform at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. An unidentified man's head is on the left side of the photograph, possibly a person from the audience.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-128.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Richard Ross, jazz singer, smiles at the audience as he stands behind a microphone at the edge of the stage at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The back of the keyboard player is in the foreground of the photo and the bass player stands behind the keyboard player.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-129.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Joe Cartwright, keyboard player, leans over the keys and looks to his right as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill, 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the right side of the photograph, partially out of the photograph, with his fiddle tucked under his left arm. Larry Holloway can be seen at the back of the stage in a blur, playing a double bass.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-130.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
