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.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in front of an illustrated graphic

Claude "Fiddler" Williams intertwines his fingers as he stands in front of a large illustrated graphic of New York tourist sites from a bird's eye view. He wears a fedora hat. A small bird's eye view graphic of the New York skyline is on the left side of the photograph. Art deco floor lamps stand on either side of the large graphic. The graphic has a black marble frame and is displayed in the center of a wall of mirrors. The date, "10 13 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom left-hand corner.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Rehearsal is a little tight in the green room

Keter Betts stands in a closet playing his double bass as he looks down at the Bucky Pizzarelli sitting on a upholstered chair playing his jazz guitar. Claude "Fiddler" Williams leans against a counter playing his fiddle and looking at Keter. Bucky's back is to the camera and Claude's left side is too the camera in the cramped green room possibly in the White House.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams with a couple of friends at the park

Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins as he stands two other unidentified African American men outside of a stone park shelter in a park. The man in the middle wears a Kappa Alpha Psi ball cap.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the body of his fiddle as he draws the bow across the strings in a close-up photograph during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood paneled walls are behind him in the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and looks down at the body of his fiddle as he draws the bow across the strings during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood paneled walls are behind him in the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-177.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the body of his fiddle as he draws the bow across the strings in a close-up photograph during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood paneled walls are behind him in the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly as he plays his fiddle at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly and smiles slightly as he stands on stage and looks down at the body of his fiddle as he draws the bow across the strings during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood paneled walls and a baby grand piano are behind him in the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-179.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams speaks to the audience

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage speaking into a microphone as he holds his fiddle and bow waist high during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood paneled walls and a piano are behind him in the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands with friends and family

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands with friends and family in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri during the Merging Generations concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. The woman seated is Claude's wife, Blanche, wearing a suit of staffs of music on a white background. He stands second between an unidentified African American woman and man. Farthest to the right in the photograph stands Regina Carter, fiddler.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams dips his head and closes his eyes as he draws his bow across the strings in a close up photograph during the Merging Generations concert in Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-182.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle center stage as he performs as part of a quartet of unidentified African American male jazz musicians including baby grand piano, a double bass, and a drum set, during the Merging Generations concert in the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude and Blanche with another couple at the Merging Generations Concert

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand in the middle of another couple and smile for a photograph in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri, during the Merging Generations concert. Claude wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Blanche wears a suit of staffs of music on a white background.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Regina Carter performs as part of a quartet for the Merging Generations Concert

Regina Carter stands center stage playing her fiddle as she performs as part of a quartet for the Merging Generations concert in Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. The other unidentified African American musicians play on a baby grand piano, a double bass, and a drum set.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he plays

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his left side, closes his eyes as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, slanted photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at his fiddle as he performs

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the strings of his fiddle as he draws his bow across them in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147