Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Description
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (22 February 1908 - 25 April 2004), violinist and guitarist, was born Claude Gabriel Williams in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Williams enjoyed a great deal of well-deserved acclaim in the twilight of his long jazz career.
Member of
LaBudde Special Collections
Displaying 76 - 90 of 306

Results per page

Displaying 76 - 90 of 306
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-083-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Audience smiles as they listen

The audience of white men, women, and children, smiles as they listen to a jazz combo play on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' birthday. One man has two boys seated with him. Todd Bolton is seated in the front row. The date, "2 11 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-083.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-084-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks into the microphone from the stage

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and speaks into a microphone as he holds his fiddle with both hands and hangs his bow from his left hand. An unidentified white male keyboard player's face is behind him and to the right. The date, "2 11 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-084.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-085-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams waves

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles and waves as he stands between the stair cases outside of the Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 SE 8th Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. The marquis reads, "PRESENTS TOPEKA JAZZ FESTIVAL MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND." Three sets of art deco entrance doors are at the top of the stairs. The date, "5 28 '00," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-085.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-086-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams holds up the keys to a Cadillac

Claude "Fiddler" Williams holds up the keys to a Cadillac Fleetwood that is parked on the street as he stands with his back to 215 and 217 SE 8th Ave, Topeka, Kansas, in front of the Topeka Performing Arts Center before the Topeka Jazz Festival.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-086.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-087-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands arm-in-arm for a photograph

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands arm-in-arm with an unidentified white man and smile at the camera inside of the Topeka Performing Arts Center in Topeka, Kansas before the Topeka Jazz Festival.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-087.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-088-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri on the left side of the photograph with his wife, Blanche Williams, and smiles up at an unidentified African American woman with her back to the camera, who bends over the table to greet Claude on the occasion of his 93rd birthday celebration. The Blue Room is crowded with every table full. Al Pearson, trumpet, bends toward a man seated in the center of the photograph at a sound board. Two other patrons are standing and bending toward each other to speak on the left side of the photograph. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-088.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-089-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

On the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration, he signs an autograph for an unidentified African American woman who bends toward him as he sits at a table in the Blue Room in the America Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. Claude's wife, Blanche Williams, sits next to him and smiles toward the right side of the photograph. The audience in the Blue Room surrounds them. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-089.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-090-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, where Claude sits on the occasion of his 93rd birthday celebration. A filled table of music fans is behind Claude. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-090.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-091-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his table in the Blue Room

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at something on the table he is sitting at in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri, on the occasion of his 93rd birthday celebration. A few audience members are visible behind him. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-091.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-092-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Scamps perform in the Blue Room

The Scamps (Luqman Hamza playing piano, Arthur Jackson and Eddie Saunders holding saxophones and talking to each other, Rusty Tucker holding a trumpet and smiling at the camera, and Lucky Wesley playing the double bass) perform in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams 93rd birthday celebration. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-092.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-093-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Rusty Tucker of the Scamps at the Blue Room

Rusty Tucker, trumpet, of the Scamps, stands in front of the piano to speak into a microphone on the stage at the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri, on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams 93rd birthday. Arthur Jackson, saxophone, sits in the center of the photograph. Lucky Wesley, double bass, grins as he looks at Rusty. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-093.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-094-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Scamps are prepared to perform in the Blue Room

The Scamps are on stage of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. Arthur Jackson, saxophone, sits in the curve of the baby grand piano. Eddie Saunders, saxophone, sits in the center of the photograph holding an alto saxophone and listening to Rusty Tucker, trumpet, who is looking at Eddie while holding a mute in one hand and a trumpet in the other. Lucky Wesley stands behind them holding a double bass by the neck but with the neck obscuring his face. One audience member is mostly out of the photograph on the right side. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-094.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-095-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Fans of jazz music and Claude "Fiddler" Williams fill the Blue Room

The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri is full of fans of jazz music on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams 93rd birthday celebration. They sit around tables. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-095.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-096-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Blanche Williams sits in the Blue Room

Blanche Williams looks to the left side of the photograph as she speaks to someone who out of the photograph. She sits in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri, on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration. The audience can be seen behind her. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-096.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-097-Thumbnail Image.jpg

Fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room

Five fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph. Most are looking at the stage but the woman in the foreground smiles directly at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-097.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147