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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Students enjoy a performance

Students make gestures of happiness; some toward the camera; some toward the stage that is not visible in the photograph; as they sit in a school auditorium. The date, "4 10 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph. Teachers stand in the back.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams' trio entertains at a café

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). The backs of the seated audience are visible as they sit around small round tables with tablecloths. A baby grand piano is beside Dan Pliskow. Oriental rugs hang as decorations on the wall behind the trio. A pink and blue rabbit head wearing a bow tie is a picture hanging on the wall by the door. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits with the audience at an event

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the farthest left side of the photograph. A pink and blue rabbit head wearing a bow tie is a picture hanging on the wall to his left. The audience, facing away from the barista bar behind them, sits at small round tables with tablecloths. The bartender is behind the bar at Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Dan Pliskow and Spencer Barefield perform in a barista bar

Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, looks down at his music on a music stand as he sits in a chair and plays. Claude "Fiddler" Williams, sits at a small round table with a tablecloth near the performance area. His fiddle and bow sit on the top of the table. An oriental rug hangs on the wall behind Dan as a decoration. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Spencer Barefield indicates where he will perform next

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, smiles as he stands outside the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), in the evening. He holds out his hand toward the name and logo of the café painted on the window front. The address of the café is printed on the awning over the doorway. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Band warms up

In Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, faces away from the camera and obscures Dan Pliskow, double bass, as the band warms up. Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, are seated as they warm up. A few audience members are seated at small round tables with tablecloths near the performers' area. Oriental rugs hang on the wall behind the band as decoration. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams prepare to perform

Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, looks seriously at a piece of music from his music stand that he holds in his hands, as he sits in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams, preparing to perform. Claude has his fiddle under his chin and his bow raised ready to play. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Marcus Belgrave plays the piano while a woman looks on

Marcus Belgrave looks down at the keys of a baby grand piano without a lid that he is playing in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), as an unidentified African American woman looks on. He wears a fedora hat. They both wear leather jackets. She holds a notebook of music in her arm. A glass of wine and a microphone sits on the piano. Oriental rugs hang on the wall behind them as decoration. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Marcus Belgrave closes his eyes as he plays his trumpet

Marcus Belgrave, from his right side, leans back in the chair in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes), closes his eyes, and blows into his silver trumpet. He wears a fedora hat. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-041.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams and Sherman Sharpe, Jr. of the Harlequin Café

Blanche Williams stands among the restaurant's tables with the chef of the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). A wall decorated with photographs is behind them. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays in the performance tent

Ahmad Alaadeen, saxophone, stands with his back to the camera under the performance tent in the left foreground of the photograph. Across the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle for the other musicians. To his left is Gerald Dunn holding his saxophone and next to Gerald is Bobby Watson also holding his saxophone. There are other musicians standing in the circle of people but they are obscured by others. The date, "9 15 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Marcus Belgrave causes Claude "Fiddler" Williams to laugh

Claude "Fiddler" Williams laughs as he holds his fiddle and bow in his left hand and stands next to Marcus Belgrave. Marcus has his hand on Claude's shoulder and is laughing as he talks or sings with his eyes closed. He wears a bowler hat and a vest. The date, "4 12 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Harlequin Café in Detroit, Michigan

Photograph at night of the street view of the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). A valet parking sign sits on the sidewalk by the street in the foreground of the photograph. The date, "4 13 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Spencer Barefield, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey

Spencer Barefield, holding a red jazz guitar, crouches down beside the seated double bass player, Marion Hayden, and Taslimah Bey, a jazz pianist. A wall of windows with blinds is behind them. The date, "4 12 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Spencer Barefield, Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, Charlie Gabriel, and Big Bill Bissonnette

Spencer Barefield stands holding his red jazz guitar and looking over to the seated Marion Hayden, Taslimah Bey, and Charlie Gabriel on one side of the green room and Big Bill Bissonnette on the left side of the photograph. Spencer and Charlie wear vests. Charlie also wears a bowler hat. Big Bill is mostly out of the photograph. The date, "4 12 '01," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147