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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Blanche Williams' husband, Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams with a young lady

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams with a young friend

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Alvin Brooks helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 92nd birthday

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams, and Buck O'Neil visit in front of a food truck

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams leaves impressions of his handprints for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Alison Krauss and Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams handprints in cement

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Illinois Jacquet and Claude "Fiddler" Williams shake hands

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Ahmad Alaadeen is ready to play the saxophone

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Myra Taylor, Clark Terry, Sam Johnson, Mary Moore, Pearl Thuston, and Luqman Hamza gather together for a photograph

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Ahmad Alaadeen and another saxophone player perform at Charlie Parker's gravesite

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Lucky Wesley and Ben Kynard visit the Blue Room

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a fiddle student

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Fiddler, mandolin player, and a guitar player perform on stage

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
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147