Allen Monroe, facing to the right of the photographer, plays a white console piano with his left foot crossed over his right knee, wearing a Fair Isle sweater as Jay McShann looks on seated at a table behind Allen at the Jackson County 175 Anniversary Awards. Two women standing in overcoats facing sideways to the photographer are having a conversation. A large group of unidentified people are standing behind Jay McShann.
Jay McShann from his left side, watching his hands as he plays piano. A microphone is visible at the top of the photograph. A cloth lies across the music rack. Ahmad Alaadeen is blurred by visible standing behind the piano with a cup in his right hand and a saxophone neck strap around his neck.
Performance with Jay McShann on piano, Clarence "Big" Miller on bass, Eugene "Jeep" Griddine on guitar, and an unidentified man on drums; possibly at Johnny Baker's; 55th and Troost; Kansas City, Missouri.
Jay McShann is laughing so hard his eyes are closed at Grand Emporium. He's wearing a suit and tie and his right suspender is visible under his suit jacket. The wall decorations are visible behind him.
Jay McShann, David Daahoud Williams (looking down in hat), Luqman Hamza (Larry Cummings), Betty Ann Bryant, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Al Duncan sit and stand at the counter in Johnson's Grill, Kansas City, MO
Jeannie & Jimmie Cheatham with Jay McShann and Marshall Hawkins at the Jazz Society of Lower Southern California (likely); Jeannie and Jay are seated together at a piano playing a duet; Jimmy is in white with a white hat and seated behind them next to bassist Hawkins.
Publicity photo of Jay McShann looking forward and smiling while holding a conducting baton in one hand. McShann is wearing a light colored tuxedo jacket and black bowtie.
Jay McShann playing piano and looking down at the keys with a microphone mounted near him; photo taken from the other end of the piano between the lid and the insides of the piano.
Amy, Jay McShann's granddaughter plays the saxophone with another unidentified African American man at the Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Jay McShann Wake. An unidentified woman stands behind them. A large photograph of Charlie Parker is on the wood-paneled wall behind all of them.
Jay McShann, wearing a baseball cap, smiles to his left as Evie Quarles leans towards his left shoulder during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival. Evie's glass rest on the top of her head.
The left side of Jay McShann smiling straight ahead as he sits at a piano wearing a ball cap. A large crowd is behind him smiling and clapping at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Fest. The photographer took the picture from Jay's left side.
Jay McShann splashing into a pool from a water slide next to Alice Betty Rustin, a fan from Toronto. McShann and Rustin are at a pool in Commack, New York.
Jeannie Cheatham seated with Jay McShann at a piano with a microphone in front of them; both are smiling and Jeannie seems to have a Band-Aid on her upper lip.
Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Pearl Thuston Brown sits in the audience wearing a fur hat and clapping her hands at the Mutual Musicians Foundation building listening to Toni Oliver sing as a band back her up at the Jay McShann Wake. Raymond "Cowboy" Jones on drums.
