Note
No date; likely 2000s
, Handwritten on the verso of the photograph in black grease pencil, "Charlie Parker Grave Ahmad Alaadeen."
Description
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.
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1 photograph : color print ; 10 x 16 cm
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Rights
Rights Note
Items in this collection may be freely viewed, searched, and displayed for research and educational purposes. Permission is required for publication, distribution, or other uses beyond viewing and searching, whether in print or electronic formats.
To request permission, please email LaBudde Special Collections.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Source
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Unit
LaBudde Special Collections