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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Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.
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Oliver Todd at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Oliver Todd outlines his face with the back of his hands as he rests his elbows on a table at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
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Henry Hoard at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Henry Hoard sits at a table in the Mutual Musicians Foundation with a saxophone lying on the table. His right hand lies across the bell of the saxophone as his left hand rests on the table.
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Myra Taylor recording

Myra Taylor sitting in a wheelchair with headphones on and singing into a microphone at the Myra Taylor Recording Session at the Airborne Audio Productions.
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Tim Whitmer recording

Tim Whitmer, from the left side, is sitting at the piano with headphones on during a recording session at Airborne Audio Productions wearing sandals, shorts, and a Hawaiian print shirt.
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Pearl Thuston Brown at Knuckleheads

Pearl Thuston Brown sits and plays a keyboard as she sings into the microphone at Knuckleheads. A drum set and equipment are visible behind her. She is facing to the photographers left.
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James Albright recording

James Albright looks seriously at the neck of a bass guitar as he stands in front of a microphone wearing headphones at the Myra Taylor recording session at Airborne Audio Productions.
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Carl Fusaro at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Carl Fusaro leans an upright bass against his left shoulder as he hugs the neck with both hands at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
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Lil Brother at the Grand Emporium

Lil Brother's face with a pipe in his mouth and wearing a jacket is seated at the drum set at the Grand Emporium.
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Geri Allen at the Blue Room

Geri Allen's head is visible between the piano keyboard and the lifted piano lid as she looks down at the keys at the Blue Room.
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Ahmad Alaadeen holding his Community Heritage Award

Ahmad Alaadeen, smiling and standing as he holds a framed copy of the Missouri House of Representatives' Resolution that he's the recipient of the Missouri Humanities Council's 2000 Governor's Humanities Award of 2000 Community Heritage Award for his dedication to the Kansas City Jazz heritage.
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Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the Community Heritage Award

Ahmad Alaadeen smiling and holding a microphone in his right hand and the 2000 Community Heritage Award in a folder in his left hand as he accepts the award from the Missouri House of Representatives Humanities Council.
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Ahmad Alaadeen accepting the Community Heritage Award

The photographer caught Ahmad Alaadeen with his eyes closed as he is smiling and holding a microphone in his right hand and the 2000 Community Heritage Award in a folder in his left hand as he accepts the award from the Missouri House of Representatives Humanities Council.
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Milt Abel performs in a North Kansas City park

Milt Abel looks intensely down to his right as he plucks an upright bass with his right hand and suppresses the strings on the neck with his left hand in a North Kansas City Park. A microphone is visible in the left of the photograph.
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Roy Searcy at the Gem Theater

Roy Searcy salutes with his right hand from the brim of his Fedora hat in a striped suit at the Living Blues Party in the Gem Theater at 18th & Vine. He is facing to the photographer's left.
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