Ahmad Alaadeen, from his left side, wearing a fedora, performing during the Blues and Jazz Festival Soul School in Liberty Park, Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, from below, wearing a double-breasted suit and a white flat cap, performing at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival in Davenport, Iowa. (Date on photo generated by camera states, '92 1 1 -- possibly the internal date in the camera was not set correctly.)
Norman Hedman and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a Dashiki style shirt, seated on a couch, smile at the photographer as they point at each other backstage at the Topeka Performing Arts Center during the Topeka Jazz Festival.
A closeup photograph of Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap under his headset, as he plays a tenor saxophone while recording a track during a recording session for "Blues For R.C. And Josephine, Too" at the Mint Recording Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a Dashiki-style shirt, performing by playing a soprano saxophone at The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, sitting at Missouri Children's Fountain, by Jamie Anderson, in front of the Governor's Mansion to honor Caroline Allen (Carrie) Crittendon who died while her father, Thomas Crittendon, was governor of Missouri, during Alaadeen's visit to the Governor's Mansion in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Jay McShann, wearing a white ball cap, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white cap, during the "21-Sax Salute" at Charlie Parker's gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Susan Krause (American Center Director/U.S. Consul in Macedonia) holding an oversized image of Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white fedora, performing in the banquet room in the Grand Hotel Skopje in Skopje, Macedonia. There is a glare over the face of Tyrone Clark playing bass in the background of the poster.
Olathe North jazz band student, Dennis Winslett, and Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a stocking cap and a leather jackets, stand and smile at the photographer during a teaching residency at Olathe North High and Oregon Trail Junior High schools in Olathe, Kansas.
Ahmad Alaadeen is seated outside with his left hand on his hip and smiling up to his left into the sunshine. He holds a saxophone across his lap with his right hand.
Ahmad Alaadeen sits in front of the bar playing a tenor saxophone while performing at BB's Lawnside BBQ in Kansas City, Missouri. An unidentified man sits next to Ahmad at the bar looking at Ahmad as Ahmad performs.
Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a white fedora, and Jay McShann sit in a room with wood paneled walls and grin at the photographer the day of the Spirit Festival at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.