Evie Quarles Collection

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This collection consists of 866 images captured by Kansas City-based blues and jazz photographer, Evie Quarles. Quarles provided annotations for the photographs, identifying people, place, date, and event, rendering the collection highly discoverable to researchers.

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DownBeat Magazine shoot at Mutual Musicians Foundation

A bass player stands in the corner of the Mutual Musicians Foundation wearing a straw hat and looking down at the bass. Luqman Hamza sits at the piano smiling down to his left. Karrin Allyson share the piano bench with Luqman and is smiling to her left and watching the saxophonist. Tommy Ruskin is playing the drums just behind Ahmad Alaadeen who closes his eyes as he blows into a tenor saxophone at the DownBeat Magazine Shoot. The wall behind the band is wood paneling with many 8 1/2 x 11 photographs and a banner.

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Alvin Brooks helps Claude "Fiddler" Williams celebrate his 92nd birthday

Alvin Brooks, eyes closed, speaks into a microphone as he stands with his arm around the shoulder of Claude "Fiddler" Williams at Fiddler's 92nd birthday celebration at Club Mardi Gras. Fiddler smiles at the photographer. Alvin Brooks wears a Fair Isle sweater and Fiddler in a striped suit. A drum set is visible behind Alvin's right shoulder. A large portrait of a face is on the wall behind them.

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Little Hatch's 80th birthday

Provine "Little" Hatch, wearing overalls, stands and stares down at a sheet cake decorated for his 80th birthday party at BB's Lawnside BBQ. Lindsay Shannon stands to Little Hatch's left holding the cake with his glasses just at the end of his nose. He's wearing a Little Hatch shirt. The head of an identified white man is visible behind Little Hatch's head.

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns 92

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays the fiddle at Club Mardi Gras for his 92nd Birthday. He's wearing a striped suit and looks down at the bow crossing the strings.

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Groovy Grant broadcasting

Groovy Grant sitting at the broadcast table with headphones by a microphone. He wears a satin print shirt and a matching baseball cap at KKFI Radio Kansas City.

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Lester "Duck" Warner

Lester "Duck" Warner sit and plays a trumpet in a fedora hat in front of a drum set at Mississippi Graces in Kansas City, KS.

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Jim O'Neal smiles

Jim O'Neal, in front of shelves of books at KC Public Downtown Library, smiles toward the photographers.

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Tyrone Clark performs at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

Tyrone Clark stands with his right side facing the photographer as he plucks the upright bass at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday party.

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Bobby Watson and Claude "Fiddler Williams at Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday

Bobby Watson, with pony tail and holding an alto saxophone, smiles to his left at Claude" Fiddler" Williams who is playing the fiddle with his eyes closed at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday party. An unidentified African American man's head is visible over Claude's left shoulder.

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Rod Fleeman performs at the American Heartland Theater

Rod Fleeman, wearing a three-piece suit, looks down at this left hand suppressing the strings of a guitar as he strums with his right hand at the American Heartland Theater.

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James Albright performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza

James Albright bowing an upright bass, lips tightly pressed, eyes toward the floor in front of the bass, wearing an argyle sweater as he performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

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Pat Morrissey performing at Unity Temple on the Plaza

Pat Morrissey looks down as he holds a trumpet vertical to his chest with a handkerchief in his left hand, but the mouthpiece on his lips, as his right hand reaches for the bell of the trumpet at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

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Luqman Hamza performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza

Luqman Hamza looks to his right and smiles at the photographer as his hands play the keys of a piano at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

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Wallace Jones performs at Unity Temple on the Plaza

Wallace Jones' left side, eyes closed, as he plays the drums at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

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Rusty Tucker performs at Unity on the Plaza

Rusty Tucker, his right side to the camera, blows into a muted trumpet with his cheeks bulged out and his eyes closed at the Unity Temple on the Plaza.

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